Official website of Yantai University introduced that the school is a key comprehensive university in Shandong Province, a first-class discipline construction unit in Shandong Province, an excellent legal talent education and training plan of the Ministry of Education, an excellent engineer education and training plan, and a key construction university with Shandong characteristics.
The school was founded in 1984, relying on Peking University and Tsinghua University. The school faces the Yellow Sea in the east and Qingshan in the west, with beautiful environment and pleasant climate. It is the coastal university with the longest coastline and the closest to the sea in China.