Yantai University

Yantai University, established in 1984 with the support of Peking University and Tsinghua University, is a key provincial comprehensive universities.

The school takes up more than 220 hectares and is located just on the coast of Yellow Sea.

There are 22 schools on the campus, with 55 undergraduate programs and 54 graduate programs.

YTU has meticulously organized the composition of faculty in terms of degree, age, academic rank, discipline, and specialization. Presently the university has 1,158 teachers, among whom 611 are full and associate professors, 317 have doctoral degrees (accounting for 27.5% of the total number of teachers), and 545 have master’s degree (accounting for 47.1% of the total number of teachers). The number of teachers with master’s degrees or above constitutes 74.6% of the total faculty. In addition, it has one member in the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), one member on the Hundred Outstanding National Teachers list recognized by the Ministry of Education, one candidate for the New Century National Excellence Project, twelve experts entitled to the Special Allowance from the State (China) Council, three teachers included on the National Excellent Teachers list, one panel judge of the National Foundation for Social Science, one person listed on New Century Excellent Personnel awarded by the Ministry of Education, eight experts recognized by Shandong Middle-aged and Young Experts with Outstanding Contribution granted by Shandong Provincial Government, and four teachers recognized as Shandong Province Outstanding Lecturers. Yantai University currently employs over three hundred internationally and nationally known scholars and thirteen part-time academicians in various disciplines.

The total area of the library is 43,800 square meters and about 1.7 million books, 0.8 electronic books, 11,000 video tapes, and 10,000 Chinese and foreign dictionaries. We also have introduced 34 Chinese and foreign databases and the campus offers internet access to every student.