Shandong University, under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, is a key comprehensive university with a long history, a variety of disciplines, strong academic strength, and distinctive characteristics, which has great influence both at home and abroad. Shandong University is a member university of Project 211 and Project 985, two national key construction projects to support the development of high-quality universities.Shandong University is one of the initiative universities of modern Chinese higher education. Its medical school, established in 1864, signified the beginning of modern Chinese higher education. Its main body, Shandong Imperial College (Shandong Da Xue Tang) established in 1901, was the second national university in China, only after the Imperial University of Peking.Shandong University comprises 8 campuses (Jinan Central Campus, Hongjialou Campus, Baotuquan Campus, Qianfoshan Campus, Software Campus, Xinglongshan Campus, Qingdao Campus and Weihai Campus) in three different cities (Jinan, Qingdao and Weihai), covering an area of over 533 hectares (including 200 hectares of the Qingdao campus, the construction of which is to be started soon).The university currently has 3 affiliated hospitals, 4 non-subordinate affiliated hospitals and 11 teaching hospitals. It also enjoys a teaching and administrative staff of 10,200 (including those at the Weihai Campusand the 3 affiliated hospitals included). Its full-time student population totals up to 60,000, of which 43,000 are undergraduates, 15,000 are postgraduates and more than 1,600 are international students. It also has an excellent faculty team of 1,046 professors, including 721 Ph.D supervisors. And now there are 6 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering, 13 distinguished professors from the “National Recruitment Program of Global Experts," 33 distinguished professors and part-time professors from the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education , 25 winners of the "National Outstanding Youth Foundation” award, 28 posts for distinguished professors and experts from the "Taishan Scholars" of Shandong Province and 8 “National Renowned Teachers”. Two academic innovation teams found themselves in the “Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team” conducted by the Ministry of Education, and another two innovation teams were chosen as the national “Excellent Innovation Groups”.