1, Shandong Institute of Arts and Crafts is located in Jinan, Shandong Province, and was founded in 1973. It has two campuses, namely, Qianfo Mountain and Changqing, as well as national production-education integration bases in Qingdao and Zibo. It is the only design university among independent public art colleges in China. At present, it has formed a multi-level school-running pattern such as postgraduate education, undergraduate education, higher vocational education, continuing education, community art education and secondary art education.

2. The school attaches great importance to discipline construction. The discipline arrangement involves four disciplines, namely, art, literature, engineering and management, 12 first-class discipline, and 34 undergraduate majors. A discipline layout featuring design as the leading factor, art as the foundation, related disciplines as the support, and traditional arts and crafts is constructed. Design is a high-level discipline "peak discipline" construction discipline in Shandong Province.

3. The school adheres to the concept of "characteristic development". The school has established a national experimental zone for innovation in talent training mode, a national experimental teaching demonstration center, an innovative experimental zone for talent training mode in colleges and universities in Shandong Province, and an experimental (teaching) demonstration center in Shandong Province. Art design, animation and art design are specialties with national characteristics.