Shandong University (Qingdao) is located in the core area of "Blue Silicon Valley" in Jimo District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, with a planned campus area of 3,000 mu. It is an innovative campus established by Shandong University in Qingdao, an international campus that is fully open to running schools, and a demonstration campus that deepens comprehensive reform. It is positioned as a high-end talent gathering and training base, a high-end academic and applied technology research base, a high-tech achievement incubation and transformation base, and a high-level academic exchange base at home and abroad.
The campus has full-time students 13 137, including 5,554 undergraduates, 7,448 doctoral students and 0/35 international students. There are 8 colleges and more than 10 scientific research institutions on campus. The campus has taken the lead in building two colleges, namely, Life Science and Technology and Cyberspace Security and Intelligent Computing, and a new round of "double first-class" key disciplines has formed three disciplines, namely, life-environment-ocean, computer-photoelectric information-network security, politics-law-public management, and several advantageous research directions. The campus library was officially opened in September 20 17, with a collection of more than 800,000 books and periodicals in Chinese and foreign languages.