Promote enrollment reform, standardize enrollment system, improve enrollment links, and improve the quality of students. According to the characteristics of the discipline, we constantly adjust and optimize the enrollment structure, focus on developing doctoral education, and tilt master's education to applied disciplines. Improve the quality of tuition-free students and expand the proportion of graduate students continuing to study. Implement the proposition system of examination questions bank and strengthen standardized management. Strengthen the re-examination link, and strengthen the examination of candidates' practical ability, innovation ability and psychological quality. Select outstanding talents in an eclectic way.

Optimize training process, promote educational innovation and improve training quality. Implement the open and personalized postgraduate training mode to improve the innovation and practical ability of postgraduate students. In accordance with the principle of classified guidance, the objectives and programs of postgraduate training in different disciplines, levels and categories are established, and the curriculum system and teaching methods are reformed. Implement the tutor responsibility system and funding system for postgraduate training, and implement continuous training of master's and doctoral students in science and engineering and medicine. Actively build a public experimental teaching platform for graduate students and cultivate their innovative ability. Carry out bilingual teaching and support the publication of high-quality graduate teaching materials. Establish "Shandong University Excellent Doctoral Thesis Award", "Shandong University Excellent Doctoral Thesis Guidance Award", "Shandong University Postgraduate Innovation Fund" and "Excellent Talent Training Award Fund". Implement the anonymous evaluation system and pre-defense system for doctoral dissertations, encourage bilingual writing of doctoral dissertations, strictly defend doctoral dissertations, standardize degree awarding, and improve training efficiency. Establish a scientific and standardized quality assurance system and monitoring mechanism. In recent years, Shandong University 13 doctoral dissertations have won the "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation" award, and the total number of awards ranks among the top universities in China.

Implement the all-round open development strategy and vigorously promote the "three experiences" of graduate students. Actively cooperate with well-known universities, scientific research departments, large enterprises and local governments to train graduate students. Establish an off-campus postgraduate training base, implement the "double tutorial system" and jointly train postgraduate students. Establish a postgraduate "visit" system, set up a "postgraduate overseas study fund", and subsidize postgraduate students to engage in course study and scientific research abroad in the form of joint training, so as to continuously improve the internationalization level and international competitiveness of postgraduate training.