Adhering to the internationalization strategy, the school has established friendly exchanges and cooperation with 177 universities in nearly 30 countries and regions, and carried out more than 200 scientific research projects of teacher-student exchanges, joint training and cooperation. Two Confucius Institutes have been established abroad, and nine undergraduate cooperation projects have been approved by the Ministry of Education. In recent years, foreign students studying in schools come from more than 60 countries and regions.
Standing in the new historical position, young people are shouldering new social responsibilities and historical missions, adhering to the school motto spirit of "erudition, erudition, integrity and strangeness", insisting on moral education, taking connotation development as the core, basing themselves on, integrating into and serving Qingdao, seeking development in the transformation of old and new kinetic energy, striving for a breakthrough in the construction of "double first-class", shouldering the mission bravely, striving for strength and striving to go abroad.