Qingdao University is a key comprehensive university in Shandong Province. Shandong Province and Qingdao jointly build universities. The high-level universities in Shandong Province are "first-class" universities with national cultural quality education bases and college students' Chinese studies education bases.

It is the first batch of pilot universities for the comprehensive reform of undergraduate majors in local universities under the "Undergraduate Teaching Project" of the Ministry of Education, and the first batch of pilot universities for the reform of postgraduate training mode of medical master's degree.