The school, located in Yantai, is a provincial-level key construction university with literature, science and engineering as the main body and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. 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. Wang Meng, the former Minister of Culture and a famous writer, commented on ludong university's "outstanding talents and school spirit". In 2006, the school was renamed ludong university. A large number of famous teachers and sages represented by,, He Qifang and Luo used to teach.