Whether Yantai ludong university is one or two depends on the enrollment batches of the school in each province. It belongs to a batch of undergraduate enrollment in Zhejiang and Qinghai, so it is an institution in these provinces; Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and other places belong to the second batch of undergraduate admissions, so they are two universities in these provinces.

Ludong university, located in Yantai City, Shandong Province, is a provincial comprehensive university with science and technology as the main body and multidisciplinary coordinated development. 20 12 became the first batch of "Shandong Famous Schools for Training Applied Talents" and the project unit for training and serving the national special needs doctoral talents.

In 20 14, it was approved to educate Post-Doctoral Research Center, becoming one of the two universities in the province with bachelor's, master's, doctoral and postdoctoral teacher education and training systems. Wang Meng, the former Minister of Culture and a famous writer, commented on ludong university's "outstanding talents and school spirit". 20 17, the school became the construction unit of the provincial doctoral program in Shandong province.

Founded in 1930, the school has gone through the historical stages of Shandong Provincial Second Rural Normal School, Jiaodong Public School, Laiyang Normal School, Laiyang Normal College, Yantai Teachers' College, Yantai Teachers' Training School and Yantai Normal College. 200 1 Shandong jiaotong school (Yantai) (founded on 1978) merged.

In 2006, the school was renamed ludong university. In 2007, the undergraduate teaching level of the school was rated as "excellent" by the Ministry of Education. In 20 14, teacher education college was formally established, located in Penglai campus.