Yantai Nanshan College fully implements the Party's educational policy, follows the law of higher education development, adheres to the integration of schools and enterprises, collaborative education, moral education first, and ability first, constantly strengthens connotation construction, promotes characteristic development, and steadily improves the level of running schools and the quality of personnel training.

The school has been awarded "National Advanced Vocational Education Unit", "China Advanced College of School-Enterprise Cooperation", "The First Batch of Employment-oriented Universities in China", "National Demonstration Private Universities Construction Research Base", "Top Ten Honest Private Universities in China", "Advanced Schools run by Social Forces" and "Advanced Vocational Education Units in the whole province"?