Qingdao Open University was founded on 1979, became the first provincial branch of the National Open University on 20 12, integrated with Qingdao Entrepreneurial University on 20 15, and established Qingdao Community Education Guidance Service Center on 20 19. In 2020, with the approval of the provincial people's government, Qingdao Radio and TV University was renamed as Qingdao Open University, which mainly undertakes the responsibility of serving lifelong learning for all in Qingdao, promoting the construction of open education system in Qingdao, and exploring the integrated development of higher education, vocational education and continuing education.
The school has two campuses, Jinshui Road and Dalian Road, with more than 80 learning centers, forming a modern distance education network covering urban and rural areas in Qingdao. At present, * * * has 56 majors, with more than 69,000 registered students in open education and 22,000 registered students in adult higher education.
Over the years, the school has adhered to the tenet of "running a university around citizens", taken "opening to the outside world" as its motto, and gradually embarked on the road of a new university with a deep integration of academic education and non-academic continuing education with a diversified and open school-running pattern. While promoting the self-construction of the new university, the school focuses on the "three strategies" of academic education, social training and education for the elderly, highlights the "two characteristics" of entrepreneurship education and marine education, and relies on the "one library N network" resource information platform to run a school in Qingdao.