Overview of the school
Yantai university lies in Yantai high and new technology industrial development zone, abuts the green hill in the west, border on the Huanghai Sea in the east, it is the key comprehensive university under the province of Shandong. Former Vice Minister of Ministry of Education, secretary of the leading Party members group, member of the standing committee of Chinese National People s Congress, education,science,culture and health committee s Vice Chairman comrade Zhang ChengXian have been serving as the Yantai university chancellor all the time.
School establish on 1984, in former the intersection of Chinese and Vice Premier of the State Council under comrade, the intersection of chancellor and Zhang ChengXian show loving care for and guide, former State Education Commission gives special approval to, is selected and appointed the teaching, scientific research, management backbone to come to the school to help build directly together by Peking University, Tsing-Hua University, and require that includes supporting the smoke in the long-term work program big in two schools.
Established in 1990 Peking University, Tsing-Hua University support Yantai university to build the committee ,The Vice Governor in charge of by Shandong and educated takes the post as the director. help build the committee Hold a meeting every two years, study and guide the teaching, scientific research and reform and development of Yantai university.
In 1998, obtained master s unit gift. Enter the 21st century, the school seizes the opportunity, implement the second phase of development, start the second stage of engineering construction, improve the standard for running a school, speed up the steps of developing, it is more complete to already build up a discipline class now, teaching facilities relatively improve, have about equal scale of the student body and capability, show unique characteristics, have the local comprehensive university of larger development potentiality.
In 1995, the smooth undergraduate course teaching level that organized of the school through former State Education Commission was qualified to comment on. The undergraduate course teaching level organized in Ministry of Education in 2004 is got when assessed outstandingly.
The school consists of 19 institute departments, 45 bachelor degrees now, contain gentle, speak to, worker, France, agriculture, medicine, economy, managing, educating 9 discipline classes. There are 53 master stations, a provincial key discipline, 5 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial engineering research centers, a provincial university Scien-tech garden, a provincial research institute.