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Shandong University is a key comprehensive university with a long and honorable history, a broad variety of disciplines, strong academic strength and distinctive characteristics, which has had a great influence both at home and abroad.

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History

1901

In 1901, the Imperial Governor of Shandong, Yuan Shikai, submitted the "The Existing Constitution of Tentative Establishment of a College in Shandong" for Emperor Guangxu's royal approval.
1905

Graduation diploma of Shandong Advanced College (1905)
1926

Six public specialist schools in Shandong province were merged and subsequently the Shandong Provincial University was established in Jinan city in 1926.
1930

The National Qingdao University was established on Sept 20, 1930. Yang Zhensheng was appointed as president by the Kuomintang government.
1932

The National Qingdao University was renamed the National Shandong University in Qingdao, with Zhao Taimou as president in 1932.
1946

The National Shandong University reopened in Qingdao in 1946, with Zhao Taimou as president once more.
1951

Shandong University merged with East China University in 1951 and retained its name of Shandong University.
1958

Shandong University was administered by Shandong province and moved to Jinan, the province's capital, in October 1958.
1974

Shandong University resumed its original administrative structure in 1974 and the Shandong University of Science and Technology was abolished.
2000

Merger of Shandong University with Shandong Medical University and Shandong University of Technology

Shandong University is one of the initiative universities of modern Chinese higher education. Its medical school, established in 1864, signified the beginning of modern Chinese higher education. Its main body, the Shandong Imperial College (Shandong Da Xue Tang) established in 1901, was the second national university in China, after the Imperial University of Peking. Moreover, it was the first university to be established with a chartered constitution.

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Facts & Figures >

Full-time teachers4,530
Academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering21

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