3500 people. Official website shows that as of March 16, 2023, the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Qingdao University has enrolled 3,500 graduate students (including the recommended exemption, the transition of long academic system and the special plan of "retired college soldiers"), and enrolled students in two ways: full-time and part-time. The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Qingdao University originated from the former Department of Textile Chemistry of Shandong Textile Institute, the former Department of Chemistry and the Department of Environmental Science of Qingdao University before the merger of Qingdao University, and has a history of undergraduate education of nearly 40 years.