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Welcome to study at SDU! As one of the oldest government-run universities in China, Shandong University was founded in 1901. It is also the first university founded by statute. SDU is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education and is also listed in the 211 Project and 985 Project of China. SDU is situated in Shandong Province, the birthplace of Qi-Lu culture, and features its advantages in culture and history. SDU is beneficial from Confucianism as it is located in the hometown of Confucius. With the beautiful natural environment, including Mount Tai on the south and the Yellow Sea on the east, SDU has cultivated many generations' talents. It is a crucial university typical of the research on Chinese traditional culture and Chinese virtue inheritance. Now it has developed into a high-level university with broad disciplines, competitive academic strength, and distinctive characteristics. The excellent educational tradition of SDU lies in combining knowledge, ability, and quality into virtue. The students of SDU boast soundness, plainness, and sureness, which are in sync with SDU. The first intake of international student's dates back to the 1950s. Since then, the education and management system for international students has been developing continuously. Until now, quality programs have been set up to foster the growth of international students at SDU. We sincerely welcome and expect young talents from all over the world to come and study at SDU. We also believe that your experiences will become memorable and invaluable treasures in your lifetime. The group photo of the staff and students on the inauguration of Shandong Imperial College 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, Shandong Imperial College (Shandong Da Xue Tang), established in 1901, was the second national university in China, only after the Imperial University of Peking. Moreover, it was the first university to be established and run following a chartered constitution. Since its birth, Shandong University has gone through several stages of significant growth and change: starting as the Shandong Imperial College, it was then reborn as the National Qingdao University, the National Shandong University, Shandong University, and the Shandong University in its present form, which is the result of the merger of Shandong University, Shandong Medical University, and Shandong Industrial University. For more than 100 years, Shandong University has been following the mission of "Reserve talents for the world, seek prosperity for the nation" and the motto of "Noble in spirit, endless in knowledge." This aim has cultivated over 400,000 talented young people of various specialties and has been making significant contributions to the country and the regional economic and social development. As one of the first universities to find its name on the list of Project 211 and Project 985, Shandong University has been developing by leaps and bounds in recent years. Each of its undertakings has reached unprecedented levels. The educational quality and competitiveness of the university have been remarkably improved. This improvement in the quality and capability of teaching has dramatically increased both its international influence and its ability to serve the country and the local regions. The university has nearly accomplished its transformation from a teaching and research-oriented university to a research-oriented one. Shandong University comprises eight campuses (Jinan Central Campus, Hongjialou Campus, Baotuquan Campus, Qianfoshan Campus, Software Park Campus, Xinglongshan Campus, Qingdao Campus, and Weihai Campus) in three different cities (Jinan, Qingdao, and Weihai), covering an area of over 533 hectares (including 200 hectares of the Qingdao campus). The university currently has four affiliated hospitals, three non-subordinate affiliated hospitals, and 11 teaching hospitals. It also enjoys a teaching and administrative staff of 7,782 (not including affiliated hospitals). Its full-time student population totals up to 60,000, of which 41,103 are full-time undergraduates, 16,607 are postgraduates and 1,813 are international students. It also has an excellent faculty team of 1,107 professors, including 907 doctoral supervisors. Moreover, Professor Peter Grünberg, a German physicist and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics, joined Shandong University as a special-term professor in 2012. Professor Mo Yan, a graduate supervisor from Shandong University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2012. And now there are eight academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering, 43 double-hired academicians, 11 tenured professors of Shandong University, 14 first grade professors in humanities and social sciences, 22 distinguished professors of National "1000-talents Plan", five scholars of National "Young 1000 Talents Plan" 7 faculty members are seated on the Discipline Appraisal Group of the State Council Academic Degree Committee, 26 become candidates of the "100-, 1000- and 10000-talent Plan", 39 distinguished professors and part-time professors from the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education, 32 winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Foundation" award, 45 posts for distinguished professors and experts from the "Taishan Scholars" of Shandong Province and 9 "National Renowned Teachers." Seven academic innovation teams found themselves in the Innovation Team Development Plan of the Ministry of Education. Another three academic innovation teams were chosen as the Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Shandong University provides two national key first-level disciplines (including eight second-level disciplines), 14 national vital second-level disciplines, three critical national second-level disciplines under cultivation, and 70 provincial key disciplines, covering the four disciplinary fields of liberal arts, science, engineering, and medicine. Such a comprehensive disciplinary system helps it to achieve coordinated development between different disciplines. Shandong University is one of the largest ranges of academic. There are 12 general disciplines for undergraduates and postgraduates, namely philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and fine arts. There are 40 first-level doctoral programs, 55 first-level master degree programs, three professional doctoral programs, 27 professional master degree programs, 118 programs for undergraduates, 38 mobile post-doctoral research stations, forming a complete system for the cultivation of talent. Since the merger at the end of the last century, the university's newly-developed disciplines of financial mathematics, crystal materials, condensed matter physics, colloid and surface chemistry, micro-biology, machinery, material science, cardiovascular functional recovery, new drug manufacturing, and classical Chinese philosophy have all risen to the first-class level within the country, and some are even known abroad. At the new historical starting point, Shandong University will seize the opportunity, adhere to connotative development, quality promotion, and feature building, to the strategy of institution existence by academia, strengthening by talents, prosperity by features and management by law. Meanwhile, the university is to promote the internationalization of it, implement the Operation for Academic vitalization. With an already strong academic foundation and even more untapped potential, we are sure to achieve the goal of becoming one of the world's highest-ranking universities. View full university