Shandong University has excellent teaching conditions and complete hardware equipment. It has 7 state-level scientific research platforms, such as National Key Laboratories, 6 National Talent Training Bases, 4 Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Science, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Education, Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Health and 21 Engineering Research Centers. The medical department has 6 clinical teaching hospitals and several teaching hospitals, such as Qilu Hospital of Shandong University and Jinan Central Hospital, and it also has a State Center for Drug Research and Development. In addition, the library of Shandong University has a wide bibliography and a variety of resources. It has a paper-based document of 4,434,296 and 201 electronic databases and nearly 7 million electronic resources.
In keeping with its status as a comprehensive university, Shandong University has one of the largest ranges of academic disciplines in China. It has at present 13 general disciplines for undergraduate and graduate education, and now 16 disciplines are among the top 1% of the ESI world ranking. Shandong University stresses the coordinated development of various disciplines, boasting 2 national key first-level disciplines (including 8 second-level disciplines). According to Science Net, Shandong University has ranked in the world`s top 100 and into top 10 in the amount of articles indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). Our university has abundant teaching resources, with 10,200 staff, professors of 1,107 and 8 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. In recent years, 2 Nobel laureates, Peter Grunberg and Mo Yan, have joined the faculty.
Oriented towards the nation`s strategic demands of talents, Shandong University has established Taishan and Nishan College, and carried out the education programs of “Excellent Engineers”, “Excellent Doctors” and “Excellent Legal Talents”. It has also established the unique multi-school double degree programs as well as multiple talent training models with different focuses. The foreign student education also has distinctive features - taste Chinese culture, enjoy the opportunity of China. Shandong University has given full play to the traditional advantages of the long history of literature and history, and cultivated international students through Chinese culture, China opportunity series of courses and programs like learning partners. In addition to academic life, Shandong University has spared no effort to build a platform to enrich students' amateur life. It has a Student union which contains 15 functional departments, and students can participate in the “ Challenge Cup”, “A Cup of Talent” and other national competitions, brand activities, and a number of high-quality activities of Shandong University. Besides the Students` Union, Shandong University has registered student associations of 6 categories, 193 of which are managed by the association federation.
At the same time, to award outstanding students and subsidize students who have financial problems, Shandong University is awarded a number of scholarships and grants annually, which are represented by National Scholarships, National Encouragement scholarship and National Financial Aid. Foreign students can apply for Chinese Government Scholarships and six other scholarships according to their circumstances.
