Yantai University

Yantai University was founded in 1984 with the support of Peking University and Tsinghua University. It began enrolling students in 1985, became a master's degree awarding institution in 1998, was granted the qualification to train doctoral students for special needs of the country in 2012, was granted the qualification to recruit and train postdoctoral students for special needs of the country in 2020, and was granted the qualification to confer doctoral degrees in 2024. It is a key comprehensive university under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province and one of the first batch of universities to be included in the Shandong Province Famous University Project. In 2020, it was selected into the Shandong Province "Strong Characteristic" high-level university and high-level discipline Construction list. The disciplines of law and pharmacy have been included in the list of "advantageous and characteristic disciplines" in Shandong Province. Seven disciplines, namely chemistry, Pharmacology and toxicology, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, Environmental ecology, plant and animal science, have entered the top 1% of ESI globally.

It has 23 colleges, 66 research institutes, 3 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, 25 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 16 master's professional degree categories, and 64 undergraduate programs, covering 10 disciplines including liberal arts, science, engineering, law, agriculture, medicine, economics, management, education, and art. There are 30,000 full-time undergraduate, master's and doctoral students and international students, and 30,000 adult higher education students from 30 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions.

Located in Yantai, a national historical and cultural city and one of the most charming cities in China, it has three campuses, namely the main campus, the South Campus and the Bajiaowan Campus, covering an area of 3,000 mu. The campus is adjacent to the Yellow Sea in the east and green mountains in the west, with a beautiful environment and pleasant climate. It is the closest coastal university in China to the sea and has the longest coastline. It has three modern libraries with complete functions, advanced facilities and elegant environment, namely Chengxian Library, Yifu Library and Bajiaowan Library, with a total area of 64,600 square meters, a collection of 2.625 million volumes, over 20,000 kinds of electronic periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages, and over 100 kinds of electronic databases. The campus is dotted with a kilometer-long cultural and artistic corridor, as well as iconic cultural attractions such as the Ox, the Eight Scenic Gardens, the Sanyuan Lake, the Yanyu Pavilion, the Bell Tower and the "Ascending" sculpture. It is a civilized campus in Shandong Province, a model university for Party building in Shandong Province, an advanced unit for Enterprise-school cooperation in Shandong Province, a benchmark school for safe campus in Shandong Province, and a model school for the inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture in Shandong Province.

Yantai University has always emphasized the development of international academic exchanges and friendly relations, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 180 institutions of higher learning and academic organizations in 37 countries and regions. It has one Sino-foreign cooperative education institution and three undergraduate programs with universities in Germany, the United States, South Korea and Italy. It also has student exchange programs such as intercollegiate exchange and undergraduate, master's and doctoral joint training with more than 80 friendly institutions in the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China. The overseas study programs have sent thousands of students to study in South Korea and other countries. The university is one of the first in the country to be approved to accept foreign students and to invite foreign experts in culture and education. There are dozens of foreign teachers, including academicians, working at the university, and it has trained more than ten thousand international students from over 40 countries. The school is a Chinese language education base in Shandong Province and a test site for HSK, TOPIK, BEC and Pearson Academic English Test. The school attaches great importance to regional and country studies and has research institutions such as the Nordic Research Center, the East Asian Research Institute, and the China-South Korea (Yantai) Industrial Park Development Research Center.

Welcome international students from all over the world to study at Yantai University!