Shandong Agricultural University is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China, the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Shandong Provincial People's Government. It is one of the first batch of pilot universities in China to reform the education and training plan for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, and has been selected as one of the national "key disciplines with characteristics", the national postgraduate program for building high-level universities, the national universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship, the famous universities with Shandong characteristics, the construction project of "first-class disciplines" in Shandong Province, and the "first-class" high-level universities in Shandong Province. The school has developed into a multidisciplinary university with agricultural science as its advantage and life science as its feature, integrating agriculture, science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law and art.

As of 202 1 and 1, the campus covers an area of about 5 145 mu, with a building area of about 1 1400 square meters. The library has 2.82 million books and 0.78 million e-books. There are 2/kloc-0 colleges and 94 undergraduate majors; The school has 34,529 students, including 29,936 undergraduates and 4,593 doctoral and master students. In addition, there are 80 in-service postgraduate students and continuing education students 18592; There are 2,483 faculty members, including professors and associate professors 1 122, academicians of China Academy of Sciences 1, and 3 academicians of China Academy of Engineering.