Shandong University of Technology has 26 colleges, including 77 undergraduate majors. The majors offered by the school include mechanical engineering, traffic and vehicle engineering, agricultural engineering and food science, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science and technology, chemistry and chemical engineering, architectural engineering, resources and environmental engineering, material science and engineering, life science, mathematics and statistics, physics and photoelectric engineering.

Shandong University of Technology, founded in 1956, is located in Zibo City, Shandong Province, the cradle of Qi culture with a long history. Now it has developed into a high-level university construction unit in Shandong Province with science and engineering as the mainstay and multi-disciplinary coordinated development. The school is the national experimental zone of talent training mode innovation, the first batch of national pilot units of "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Plan", the national intellectual property information service center, the first batch of national intellectual property pilot universities, the first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases, the national excellent pilot unit of educational informationization, the national foreign language teaching reform pilot unit, the national KAB entrepreneurship education base for college students, the first batch of civilized campuses in Shandong Province, and the founding unit of "Shandong Smart Education Demonstration School".

The school is divided into east and west campuses. The campus covers an area of 3,600 mu, with a building area of1170,000 square meters. The library has 3.443 million books and 8.482 million electronic books (including dissertations).