Qingdao University of Technology ranks 259th in the national comprehensive ranking, 13 in Shandong universities and 76th in the national universities of science and engineering. Qingdao University of Technology is a multi-disciplinary university, focusing on engineering, with distinctive features in civil construction, machinery manufacturing, environment and energy, and the coordinated development of science, engineering, management, law and art.

Qingdao University of Technology is the first batch of planned construction units of local universities (11), the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a famous school with characteristics of applied talents training, and the first batch of high-level universities with distinctive characteristics in Shandong Province.

Adhering to its original mission, the school has trained 240,000 scientific, engineering, technical and management talents for the country in the past 60 years. The employment rate, employment quality and employer satisfaction of graduates have always been among the best in the province. To serve the national strategy, a number of key research achievements have been applied to plateau trains, C9 19 aircraft, Beijing Winter Olympics, lunar exploration project, Tianwen No.1 and other major projects.

Discipline construction of Qingdao University of Technology

As of March 2023, the school has two first-class postdoctoral research stations, two first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 1 professional doctoral authorized disciplines, 2 1 master's degree authorized first-class disciplines, and 16 professional master's degree authorized points. Civil engineering was approved as a provincial peak discipline, and mechanical engineering was approved as a provincial dominant discipline. Engineering and materials science ESI ranks among the top in the world 1%.

ESI Global Top 1% Discipline (II): Engineering and Materials Science. Key discipline of former Ministry of Metallurgy (1): mechanical design and theory, which was founded in 1953 and approved by 1996. Shandong Province Peak Discipline (1): Civil Engineering. Advantages of Shandong Province (1): mechanical engineering.

First-class disciplines in Shandong Province (3): civil engineering, environmental science and engineering (training) and mechanical engineering (training). Taishan Scholar (1) Advantages: Civil engineering. The Key Discipline of Shandong Culture and Arts Science in the Twelfth Five-Year Plan (1): Urban Culture Research.