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Shandong University SDU is a public comprehensive university in Shandong, China. It is one of the
largest universities in China by student population (57,500 full-time students in 2009) and is supported
directly by the national government.Shandong University is one of the top 45 listed medical universities
in China and approved by MOE China to teach MBBS in English.
Present-day Shandong University is the result of multiple mergers as well as splits and restructurings
that have involved more than a dozen academic institutions over time.The oldest of Shandong
University’s precursor institutions, Cheeloo University, was founded by American and English mission
agencies in the late 19th century (as Tengchow College of Liberal Arts in Penglai).Tengchow College
was the first modern institution of higher learning in China. Shandong University derives its official
founding date from the Imperial Shandong University established in Jinan in November 1901 as the
second modern national university in the country.

Shandong University has eight campuses, all but two of which are located in the provincial capital city of
Jinan. The newest of these campuses is located to the northeast of the port city of Qingdao. It was
inaugurated in September 2016 and its development is still ongoing. The university has been classified
as a National Key University by the Chinese Ministry of Education since 1960.It has been included in
major national initiatives seeking to enhance the international competitiveness of the top-tier universities
in China such as Project 985 and Project 211.It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First
Class University.
Shandong University offers master and doctoral degree programs in all major academic disciplines
covering the humanities, science and engineering, as well as medicine.
Shandong University Reputation and ranking:
Shandong University ranked 270th worldwide and 11th nationwide in CWUR World University Ranking
2018/2019 (http://cwur.org/). In the general university ranking performed by the Chinese University
Alumni Association (CUAA), Shandong University ranked number 14 among Top 100 Chinese
universities in 2010.It reached the 11th highest score in the “teaching” category of this ranking.Shandong
University’s engineering programs have also been ranked number 15 nationwide by the Research Center
of Management and Science in China (2008).For the last 10 years, Shandong University has been
continuously ranked among the top 10 universities nationwide in terms of the number of publications
included in the Science Citation Index. Research at Shandong University is deemed particular strong in
the areas of physics, mathematics, and medicine.A ranking by Mines ParisTech based on the number of
alumni holding CEO position in Fortune Global 500 companies placed Shandong University first within
China.

Shandong University History:
Traditional learning in Shandong (1733–1900)
Buildings of the Luoyuan Academy in Jinan
Miao Quansun, a historian, bibliographer, and book collector, taught at the Luoyuan Academy and
helped to establish China’s first modern libraries.
The Luoyuan Academy was established in Jinan in 1733 by an imperial edict from the Yongzheng
Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.[13] The governor of Shandong, Yue Jun , received 1,000 taels of silver
(approximately 37 kg) to fund the establishment of the academy. The name “Luoyuan” (literally “source
of the Luo [River]”) refers to the original location of the academy near the Baotu Spring. The academy
was dedicated to teaching the Chinese classics to the sons of the gentry. Scholars affiliated with the
academy include: Bi Yuan (畢沅, 1730–1797), Sang Tiaoyuan (桑调元, 1695–1771), Shen Qiyuan (沈起
元, 1685–1763), He Shaoji (何紹基, 1799–1873), Kuang Yuan (匡源, 1815–1881), Wang Zhihan (王之翰,
1821–1850), Liu Yaochun (刘耀春), Zhu Xuedu (朱学笃, 1826–1892), and Miao Quansun (缪荃孙, 1844–
1919). In 1881, the American Presbyterian missionaries John Murray (Chinese: 莫约翰; pinyin: Mò
Yuēhàn) and Stephen A. Hunter (Chinese: 洪士提反; pinyin: Hóngshì Tífǎn) attempted to purchase a
property adjacent to the Luoyuan Academy for use as a chapel. This led to a violent reaction when on
July 13, 1881, literati from the Academy incited an attack on the property.[14] The incident, known as the
“Jinan Jiaoan” (Chinese: 济南教案; pinyin: Jìnán Jiàoàn), had considerable diplomatic repercussions for
the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the United States. The Luoyuan Academy was rebuilt in
1896 to become the largest institution of its kind in Shandong.Five years later (in 1901) it was replaced

by the newly founded Imperial Shandong College which took over its campus(today the site of the
Provincial Bureau of Statistics on Spring City Road, Chinese: 泉城路; pinyin: Quán Chéng Lù).
19th-Century precursor institutions

Calvin W. Mateer established the Tengchow College of Liberal Arts in Dengzhou (Penglai).
The earliest precursor institutions that would later be fused into Shandong University were founded by
American and English mission agencies: In early January 1864, Calvin W. Mateer, an American
Presbyterian missionary, and his wife Julia Brown Mateer, arrived in the recently opened treaty port of
Dengzhou in the area of the present-day city of Penglai on the north-eastern coast of Shandong
Peninsula.Their journey had begun in New York on July 3, 1863, had taken them around the Cape of
Good Hope to Shanghai, and had ended with a shipwreck off the coast of Yantai.In the autumn of 1864,
the Mateers opened an elementary school for boys (Mengyang Educational Society, Chinese: 蒙养学堂;
pinyin: Méngyǎng Xuétáng) in a Guanyin temple that had been sold to them since there were insufficient
funds for its upkeep as a temple.The school’s first class consisted of six boarders and two day pupils.The
school was enlarged to accommodate 30 boarders and divided into primary and high school sections in
1869.The high school became known as the Wenhui Guan (Chinese: 文会馆; pinyin: Wénhuì Guǎn). The
Tengchow College of Liberal Arts was formally established in 1882,[6] i.e., at a time when the school had
been operated as a primary and high school for 18 years already. By 1889, enrollment in the college had
grown to 100 students.The six-year curriculum included algebra, geometry and conic sections,
trigonometry and measurement, surveying and navigation, analytical geometry and mathematical
physics, calculus, as well as astronomy.Religion also featured prominently in the curriculum as well as in
daily life at Tengchow College.The College soon enjoyed a reputation for its high standards of academic
excellence.When W.A.P Martin hired young professors of Western learning for the Imperial Capital
University (the precursor of present-day Peking University), 12 out of 13 young professors hired were
graduates of Tengchow College of Liberal Arts.[15] In 1884, shortly after the formal establishment of
Tengchow College of Liberal Arts, British Baptists established Tsingchow Boy’s Boarding School in
Qingzhou, also located in northern Shandong, but not directly on the coast.

In 1902, the American and British missionaries agreed to combine their education ventures in Shandong,[6] and established an arts college in Weifang, a theological college) in Qingzhou, and a medical college
in Jinan.[6] In 1909, all three colleges were consolidated into Shantung Protestant Universitywhich was
later renamed Shantung Christian University.
A prominent member of Cheeloo University’s faculty was Henry Winters Luce (1868–1941), the father of
the publisher Henry R. Luce (founder of TIME Magazine, Fortune, and Life). Henry W. Luce initially led
the fundraising efforts for the new campus in Jinan(today the Baotuquan Campus of Shandong
University). In this capacity, he raised 300,000 dollars between 1912 and 1915 from donors in the United
States. The buildings on the new Cheeloo campus were designed by the architectural firm of Perkins,
Fellows, & Hamilton from Chicago.Henry W. Luce was elected vice-president of Cheeloo University in
1916, but resigned in the following year already, because he felt that he had insufficient support for his
vision of a university of major national influence from the then Cheeloo President J. Percy Bruce.

Cheeloo University particularly made its mark in the field of medicine: From 1914–1936, the university
built and subsequently expanded Cheeloo Hospital as a major facility for medical education in China.
Between 1916 and 1923, the former Peking Union Medical College, the Medical Department of Nanking
University, the Hankow Medical College, and the North China Union Medical College for Women were all
moved to Jinan and merged into the Cheeloo University School of Medicine.
Lao She, author of “Rickshaw Boy” and “Teahouse”, taught at Cheeloo University and National
Shandong University in Qingdao.
Cheeloo University attracted Chinese intellectuals and scholars. The writer Lao She, author of the novel
“Rickshaw Boy” and the play “Teahouse”, taught at Cheeloo University (1930–1934) as well as at
National Shandong University in Qingdao and other universities between 1934 and 1937.
In 1937, when the Japanese forces occupied northern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War,
Cheeloo University evacuated to Sichuan and operated on the campus of West China Union University
in Chengdu. In Jinan, the University’s hospital remained open with a largely Western staff.During the

war, the Japanese military used the entire campus for housing about 1,200 patients along with 600
officers.
During the Korean War (1950–1953), the Chinese government came to regard Christian schools as tools
of “American imperialism” and hence embarked on closing them down.Cheeloo University was dissolved
in 1952. Its Medical School was fused with Shandong Provincial Medical College and the East China
Norman Bethune Medical College to form Shandong Medical College (renamed into “Shandong Medical
University” in 1985).
Imperial Shandong University (1901)
As governor, Yuan Shikai (shown as Emperor of China in 1916) drafted the charter for Shandong
College.
The initiative for the founding of Shandong University in 1901 as a national, modern university came from
Yuan Shikai, then the governor of Shandong province. Yuan Shikai was the chief military modernizer of
the late Qing Dynasty whose control over a powerful army combined with his personal ambition played a
key role in the birth of the Republic of China as well as its descent into warlordism in the early 20th
century.
Yuan Shikai had been governor of Shandong Province since December 1899. He had been appointed to
this post to quell the Boxer Uprising in the province and to reassure the foreign diplomats in the country
who were looking for quick decisive actions against the boxers.In 1901, the same year that marked the
end of the Boxer Uprising, Yuan sent a draft for the university charter to the Guangxu Emperor and
instructed Li Yukai, the magistrate of Penglai, to start preparations for the university.The draft of the
university charter was approved by the emperor in November 1901,shortly after the Boxer Uprising had
officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901. Shandong Imperial
University became hence the second modern national university established in the country after Imperial
Capital University that had been founded in 1898 and later became Peking University. The charter of
Shandong Imperial University served as a model for subsequent foundations of imperial university. The
original charter document for Shandong University is now kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei,
Taiwan where it had been taken during the retreat of the Kuomintang at the end of the Chinese Civil
War.
Watson M. Hayes was invited to organize Imperial Shandong University and served as its first dean.
Governor Yuan Shikai wanted a prominent position for Western learning in the curriculum of the new
college.Hence, he invited the American Presbyterian missionary Dr. Watson McMillan Hayes who was
then serving as president of Tengchow College in Penglai to help with setting up the new Imperial
Shandong University and serve as its president.The appointment of the Presbyterian missionary W. A. P.
Martin as inaugural president of the Imperial Capital University three years earlier had set a precedent
for this arrangement. Hayes arrived in Jinan in July 1901 and started the preparations for the new
college.Hayes also published Shandong’s first successful daily newspaper and petitioned the Qing court
to grant a holiday on Sundays; As a consequence, Shandong University was closed on Sundays right
from the start.However, by the end of the year, Hayes and six Chinese Christian teachers he had
brought with him had resigned already over disagreements regarding the policy of mandatory Confucius
worship for students of the imperial university.Hayes went on to teach the Presbyterian Mission
Theological Class in Chefoo (present-day Yantai) and continued to work as a missionary and educator in
Shandong until his death in a Japanese internment camp in Wei County (present-day Weifang) in 1944.
Imperial Shandong University occupied the premises of the Luoyuan Academy which had been
renovated and extended significantly five years earlier. It was opened on November 13, 1901 in a
ceremony attended by Governor Yuan Shikai.299 student were enrolled in the first term, of which 120
passed the first examination and 100 were finally admitted.The first faculty had 50 members that also
included teachers from overseas,it was later increased to 110. The curriculum contained Chinese
classics, Chinese history, social sciences, natural sciences, and foreign language with more than 20
subjects being taught.At the beginning, the curriculum covered 3 years, but it was later expanded to 4
years.
“Western studies” faculty of Imperial Shandong University (presumably W. M. Hayes and the six Chinese
Christian teachers he had brought with him)
The first president of the new university was Zhou Xuexi.
In 1904, Imperial Shandong University moved to new premises in the Ganshi Qiao area of Jinan(located

to the south-west of the historical city center) and changed its name to “Shandong Institution of Higher
Learning” In 1911, it changed its name once again, this time to the “School of Higher Learning”
At the top level, Shandong University is governed by a president and a cabinet of vice presidents , each
with a specific portfolio of responsibilities (e.g., research, international exchange). Central administrative
departments (e.g., for finance, human resources, research, or international affairs) are led by a director.
Below the central administration, the university is organized by subject area into 31 faculties that are
referred to as “Schools” as well as a graduate school. Each school is headed by a dean and may be
divided further into departments headed by a chairperson. Academic programs are offered in 11 main
disciplines: philosophy, economics, law, literature, history, natural sciences, engineering, management,
medicine, education, and military science. There are 104 undergraduate degree programs, 209 master’s
degree programs, and 127 doctoral degree programs. In addition, there are seven professional master’s
degree programs in law, business management, engineering, clinical medicine, public health, dentistry,
and public administration.
The student population is around 57,500 full-time students, of which 14,500 are postgraduate students,
and over 1,000 are foreign students (data from 2009).
The major research efforts at Shandong University are organized in 34 national, provincial, and
ministerial key academic disciplines, two national key research labs, 21 provincial and ministerial key
research labs, a national engineering and technology promotion center, 10 provincial technology
research centers, three national basic scientific research and personnel development bases; three social
science key research bases approved by Ministry of Education; and three national fundamental science
personnel development bases. Among its faculty are 23 members (including adjuncts) of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Three general hospitals, including Qilu
Hospital, and 12 teaching hospitals are affiliated with the university. The university library houses a
collection of over 3,550,000 items.
Shandong University schools and departments:
Shandong University School of Business Administration
Shandong University School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Shandong University School of Civil Engineering
Shandong University School of Computer Science and Technology
Shandong University School of Control Science and Engineering
Shandong University School of Dentistry
Shandong University School of Economics
Shandong University School of Electrical Engineering
Shandong University School of Energy and Power Engineering
Shandong University School of Environmental Science and Engineering
Shandong University School of Fine Arts
Shandong University School of Foreign Languages and Literature
Shandong University School of History and Culture
Shandong University School of Information Science and Engineering
Shandong University School of International Education
Shandong University School of Journalism
Shandong University School of Law
Shandong University School of Life Science
Shandong University School of Literature and Journalism

Shandong University School of Macroelectronics
Shandong University School of Marxist Theory Education
Shandong University School of Materials Science and Engineering
Shandong UniversitySchool of Mathematics and System Sciences
Shandong University School of Mechanical Engineering
Shandong University School of Medicine
Shandong University School of Nursing
Shandong University School of Pharmacy
Shandong University School of Philosophy and Social Development
Shandong University School of Physical Education
Shandong University School of Physics
Shandong University School of Political Science and Public Administration
Shandong University School of Public Health
Shandong University International cooperation and exchange:
Shandong University has established an international network for educational cooperation and has
signed exchange agreements with over 70 universities from over 50 countries. Shandong also is
associated in a sister school for American Middle Schools and Junior Highs, including Scofield Magnet
Middle School. Among its faculty are international researchers and scholars, who either visit for a short
term (less than 1 month, 160 visitors in 2009), a medium term (less than half a year, 70 visitors in 2009),
or for the long term (more than half a year, 80 visitors in 2009). Of the 80 long-term international faculty
members, 30 language scholars teach languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, French, German,
Spanish, and Russian. The others are active in disciplines such as philosophy, biology, chemistry,
physics, law, international politics and economics, as well as Chinese classics and traditional philosophy.
About 1500 international students from about 40 countries come to study at Shandong University each
year. An international student population numbering more than 1000 can be found on campus at any
given time during the semester. Most of these international students come from Asian and African
countries, but there are also students from Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Since
1980, Shandong University has received more than 10,000 students from over 60 countries. Popular
study subjects are Chinese language and culture, but also economics and medicine. Furthermore,
Shandong University participates in international short term exchange programs and receives
approximately 2500 international student visitors for such programs per year.It is also included in 45
listed medical universities in china.
In 2006, Shandong University created a joint urban research center with the University of Cincinnati in
the United States, and a presence on each other’s campus.An International Laboratory operated in the a
partnership with Virginia Tech was inaugurated in the Integrated Research Building on the Central
Campus in August 2010. The laboratory focuses on a biophysics and engineering analysis of biological
model systems drawn from China’s biodiversity.Shandong University is a partner university of the Study
China Programme, which is coordinated by the University of Manchester and funded by the UK
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Second Hospital of Shandong University:
The Second Hospital of Shandong University has a capacity of about 1200 beds and has departments
for neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and internal medicine.The hospital is managed by the National
Medical Department and affiliated with Shandong University, it is located at Beiyuan Street 247 in Jinan.
Stomatology Hospital of Shandong University:
The Stomatology Hospital of Shandong University was founded in 1977. It has 105 employees and is
organized into four research centers and two laboratories.It is located at Wenhua West Road 44 in Jinan.