The total number of students is nearly 60 thousand. Shandong University has six campuses: Central Campus, Hongjialou Campus, Baotuquan Campus, Qianfoshan Campus, Software Park Campus and Xinglong Mountain Campus, and has a branch in Weihai, a coastal city that is "most suitable for human habitation". The specific number of students in each campus is not clear. The total number of students is nearly 60,000, and the ratio of male to female is about 1 to 1. Of course, this is only the overall proportion.

Like Zhengzhou University, Shandong University has such a large number of students because there are many candidates in Shandong Province, and in order to ensure that they can be admitted to universities smoothly after the college entrance examination, many candidates will give priority to universities in this province.