Geographically, the North Campus is located in Licang District of Qingdao, and the South Campus is located in Shinan District of Qingdao. The geographical location of the south campus is relatively good, and there are shopping malls, railway stations and other facilities nearby. The north campus is far from the city center, relatively remote and the traffic is not very convenient.

From the perspective of campus environment, the environment of the north campus is better than that of the south campus, because it is a new campus and much better than the south campus. South campus is the old campus of Shandong foreign trade, which covers a small area and is very old. From the perspective of department setting, the old campus only has the computer major of information management department, while the new campus has more majors such as international trade, customs declaration, accounting, business English, logistics, tourism, secretarial and so on.

All majors in the college closely connect with the regional open economy and foreign-related high-end service industries, forming a distinctive "foreign" school-running feature focusing on foreign trade, foreign languages, sinotrans and outsourcing. At present, there are 24 majors, including international trade practice, software technology and logistics management, which jointly train "3+2" students with Yantai University, Qingdao University and Qufu Normal University, and some students realize paid and vocational study at the undergraduate level; International trade practice and accounting are the key construction majors supported by the central government; International trade practice, accounting, software technology, business English, customs declaration and international freight, and logistics management are provincial majors.