Linyi University is a comprehensive university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Shandong Province. It is the key construction university of the National Development and Reform Commission's "integration of production and education" project, the first batch of universities in China and the only national-level "China literary criticism base" in Shandong Province, and the implementation university of "excellent teacher training plan". It is the first batch of training and construction units of high-level disciplines in Shandong Province. The school is located in Linyi City, Shandong Province. At present, Wang, secretary of the Party Committee of the school, and Zhang Shusheng, president of the school, all have the motto of "Ming Yi, Ruisi, Hony, Zhiyuan".

By April 2022, the school has two campuses, Yishui and Feixian, covering an area of about 6,000 mu, with a school building area of 1 1.4 million square meters and 2,747 teaching and administrative staff. There are 26 colleges, 5 university-level research institutions, 5 teaching auxiliary institutions and 5 directly affiliated institutions. The school has four master's degree-level disciplines, 1 1 master's degree authorization categories; There are 76 undergraduate majors, covering 1 1. Among them, chemistry has been selected as a high-level discipline training discipline in Shandong Province, before entering the ESI world 1%.

Academic exchange:

The school has reached an agreement with universities in five countries, such as the United States, Russia, Australia, Japan and South Korea, and implemented the 3+ 1 and 4+2 cooperative training modes. It has also launched a joint postgraduate (MPA) program with the University of New Haven. The school introduces foreign teachers and recruits international students all the year round. We have reached cooperation agreements with the University of Illinois, the University of California, Schiller International University, Cambridge University and Warwick University in the United Kingdom on the joint development of software and management systems of Linyi University and the construction of secondary colleges.

The school has established cooperative relations with 28 institutions of higher learning in the United States, Britain, Russia, South Korea, Japan, France, India and other countries, and carried out various forms of cooperative education, such as Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, mutual recognition of credits, exchange of international students, undergraduate and graduate students for further study. Two "International Forums on University Management" and four Sino-Korean cultural and artistic exchange exhibitions were held.