1996 was renamed Nanshan Vocational Training College, and 1998 was renamed Nanshan Vocational College. In 2000, it was renamed Nanshan Vocational and Technical College; In 2005, it was upgraded and renamed Yantai Nanshan College.
Since its establishment, the college has spanned several stages of development. In 2005, it was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2009, he had the right to award a bachelor's degree. 20 15 passed the undergraduate qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education, and 20 17 was identified as the training and construction unit of the master's degree-granting project by the Shandong Provincial People's Government.
20 18 was awarded "China Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Innovation Demonstration Base" and "Shandong Innovation and Entrepreneurship Typical Experience University". In 20 19, it began to jointly train postgraduate students with Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Liaoning University of Technology, and won the honorary title of "Top 100 Private Education in China" in 20021year.