The school has two campuses, Donghai and Nanshan. There are engineering colleges, business schools, humanities colleges, chemical engineering and technology colleges, materials science and engineering colleges, textile science and engineering colleges, health colleges, conservatory of music, aviation colleges, Marxist colleges, applied technology and training colleges, etc. 1 1 secondary colleges, including 46 departments (departments and centers), 53 undergraduate majors and 42 specialties.

Yantai Nanshan College is a full-time undergraduate college invested by Nanshan Holdings, a top 500 enterprise in China, and approved by the Ministry of Education.

The school was founded on 1988. In 2005, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a full-time undergraduate college. In 20 15 years, he passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. In 20 17, it was recognized by Shandong Provincial People's Government as a training unit for master's degree-granting projects. 20 19 was approved by Shandong Provincial Department of Education to jointly train postgraduate students with Qingdao University of Science and Technology.