The school is located in Yantai, the "best charming city in China", and it is a provincial comprehensive university with humanities and science as the main body and multidisciplinary coordinated development.

The school was founded on 1930 in Laiyang, an ancient county with a long history and culture. It has gone through the historical stages of Shandong Provincial Second Rural Normal School, Jiaodong Public School, Laiyang Normal School, Laiyang Normal College, Yantai Normal College and Yantai Normal College. 200 1, Shandong Communications School, which was directly under the former Shandong Provincial Communications Department and founded in 1978, merged. In 2006, the school was renamed ludong university.

20 12 became the first batch of "Shandong Famous Schools for Training Applied Talents" and the project unit for training and serving the national special needs doctoral talents. 20 14 approved post-doctoral research mobile station for education. In 20 17, it was approved as "National Universities with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship" and "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base for Practical Education in Colleges and Universities". Wang Meng, the former Minister of Culture and a famous writer, commented on ludong university's "outstanding talents and school spirit".

Ludong university official website-school profile