Universities with distinctive specialties include: Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Taishan Medical College, Binzhou Medical College, Jining Medical College and Dezhou University.

Qingdao University of Science and Technology, located in Qingdao, Shandong Province, is a key university directly under the former Ministry of Chemical Industry. It has been selected into the national "11plan" and the "Action Plan for rejuvenating the country through science and education" of the Ministry of Education and China Academy of Sciences, which is the first batch of "Education and Training Plan for Outstanding Engineers" in China.

Qingdao University of Technology is a provincial key university under key construction in Shandong Province, a university with excellent engineer education and training plan, and a famous school featuring the cultivation of applied basic talents. Selected into the national "11plan", the national "three-round education" comprehensive reform pilot unit, and the first batch of national demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, with postgraduate exemption qualification. Shandong Province, the first batch of first-class discipline construction universities, member of CDIO Engineering Education Alliance.