Yantai University (YTU) is a key comprehensive university in Shandong Province, located in Laishan District in the eastern suburbs of Yantai. The 210 hectare campus is situated in a diverse topographical area of mountains, sea coast, and farmlands. The area enjoys a very moderate, temperate climate with four distinct seasons. Dr. Cui Mingde, the Chairman of the Yantai University Council (CUC), is a well-known scholar of Chinese History. The president of Yantai University, Dr. Fang Shaokun, is a renowned scholar of Chinese Civil and Commercial Law.
Upon its establishment in 1984, the two most renowned institutions of higher education in China, Peking University and Tsinghua university, sent teaching, scientific research, and administrative staff to help Yantai University in its early development. Later, in 1990, the Committee of Peking and Tsinghua University was founded to give continuous support to Yantai University.
The combined facilities contain a total of 790,000 square meters of classroom, office and other space. Total investment in teaching facilities is RMB160 million. The library hosts a collection of 2.4 million volumes.
YTU has become a center for teaching and research in Jiaodong Peninsula. There are five key provincial level disciplines:
Civil and Commercial Law
History of Chinese Minorities
Physical Chemistry
Theoretical Physics
Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation
Its various colleges and institutes have programs in 21 branches of learning, including basic and applied sciences, social sciences and the humanities, economics and management, and architecture. The university is home to 31 research institutes and has 51 undergraduate programs, 52 graduate programs and 2 professional master’s degree programs. Its aim for the future is to rank among China’s best universities.
YTU is proud of its 1,966 outstanding faculty. There are 595 full and associate professors, 285 with doctoral degrees, including one member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and one recognized by the Ministry of Education as one of the “100 Outstanding National Teachers”. An additional 100 teachers will receive their doctoral degrees within the next few years.
Awards
Yantai University has received wide recognition in its many awards for academic excellence:
- Ninth-Five-Year-Plan National Best University Management Prize
- 2 National Science and Technology Progress Awards
- 5 Humanity and Social Science Awards of Higher Learning
- 158 provincial or ministerial prizes
along with 500 miscellaneous prizes.
The university hosts the “Mount Tai Scholar” provincial endowed chair in Civil and Commercial Engineering.
Research Centers
The university’s faculty leads 59 research projects, supported by a wide variety of funding agents:
- Natural Science Foundation Committee (NSFC)
- Social Science Foundation Committee (SSFC)
- “973” Projects (Ministry of Education)
- “863” Projects (Ministry of Education)
- Tenth-Five-Year-Plan-Key S & T Program
The faculty has completed or is working on 300 projects supported by provincial or ministerial funds as well.
The campus is home to several important research centers and laboratories. There are seven key provincial level laboratories:
- Science and Technology for Opto-electric Information
- Chemical Manufacturing Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Medical Filtration and Assessment
- Environment and Material
- Environmental Decontamination Material Engineering and Technology
There are several research centers:
- two technology transfer centers
- Natural Medicine Making Technology
- National Research and Promotion Center for Leather Tanning Technology
- seven key provincial level disciplinary teaching and experiment centers,
- five provincial level engineering and technology research centers
- Shandong Fruit & Vegetable after Harvest Engineering and Technology Research Center
- Shandong Air Decontamination Engineering and Technology Research Center
- Shandong Natural Medicine and Technology Research Center
- Shandong Functional Food Engineering and Technology Research Center
- Shandong Stem Cells Engineering and Technology Research Center
- one provincial level research institute
- Shandong Intellectual Property Institute
- one provincial humanities and social science research base
- Applied Law Research Center
- one provincial soft science research center
- International Property Rights research center
- one provincial level aesthetics research base
- one provincial level university science park
- Peking-Tsinghua-Yantai Tri-university Science Park
Publications
The university publishes the Journal of Yantai University, Natural, Science and Engineering Edition, and the Journal of Yantai University, Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition, both of which have been categorized as national key publications and national best publications.
International Cooperation
YTU has established friendly relations with 70 universities in 20 nations and regions. Each year 200 teachers and students travel abroad to study as exchange scholars or students. Every year there are approximately 300 visiting scholars at YTU doing research, along with 50 foreign teachers. Approximately 600 international students register at YTU each year to study various subjects.
YTU attaches great importance to the continuous improvement of teaching quality and combines the teaching of science with the practice of engineering.
With the motto of “Be trustworthy, be down-to-earth, be fond of learning, and practice earnestly,” YTU is dedicated to academic excellence.
