Adult higher education in Shandong University started at 1958, which is one of the earliest schools in China. The school always adheres to the school philosophy of "demand-oriented, student-centered and quality-oriented", actively explores the network transformation of adult education, and effectively solves the contradiction between work and study; Practice the new mission of "adhering to the mission of the school, serving the construction of a learning society and becoming the link between the school and society", and put forward the development ideas of serving enterprises, industries and localities; Innovating the school-running system and constructing the trinity adult education talent training system of schools, colleges and correspondence stations have trained a large number of applied talents with both ability and political integrity for the society, and have been rated as advanced units in running schools by the state and Shandong Province for many times, making outstanding contributions to building a lifelong education system and building a learning society.
Adult higher education in Shandong University is a correspondence and part-time school, with junior college as the starting point of high school and undergraduate as the starting point of junior college. At present, there are more than 50 undergraduate and specialist majors, covering literature and history, economics and management, law, science and engineering, medicine and art, with more than 20 thousand students.