Yantai University has received wide recognition in its many awards for academic excellence:

Ÿ           Ninth-Five-Year-Plan National Best University Management Prize

Ÿ           2 National Science and Technology Progress Awards

Ÿ           5 Humanity and Social Science Awards of Higher Learning

Ÿ           158 provincial or ministerial prizes

along with 500 miscellaneous prizes.

The university hosts the “Mount Tai Scholar” provincial endowed chair in Civil and Commercial Engineering.

Research Centers

The university’s faculty leads 59 research projects, supported by a wide variety of funding agents:

Ÿ           Natural Science Foundation Committee (NSFC)

Ÿ           Social Science Foundation Committee (SSFC)

Ÿ           “973” Projects (Ministry of Education)

Ÿ           “863” Projects (Ministry of Education)

Ÿ           Tenth-Five-Year-Plan-Key S & T Program

The faculty has completed or is working on 300 projects supported by provincial or ministerial funds as well.

The campus is home to several important research centers and laboratories. There are seven key provincial level laboratories:

Ÿ           Science and Technology for Opto-electric Information

Ÿ           Chemical Manufacturing Engineering

Ÿ           Structural Engineering

Ÿ           Medical Filtration and Assessment

Ÿ           Environment and Material

Ÿ           Environmental Decontamination Material Engineering and Technology

There are several research centers:

Ÿ           two technology transfer centers

n        Natural Medicine Making Technology

n        National Research and Promotion Center for Leather Tanning Technology

Ÿ           seven key provincial level disciplinary teaching and experiment centers,

Ÿ           five provincial level engineering and technology research centers

n        Shandong Fruit & Vegetable after Harvest Engineering and Technology Research Center

n        Shandong Air Decontamination Engineering and Technology Research Center

n        Shandong Natural Medicine and Technology Research Center

n        Shandong Functional Food Engineering and Technology Research Center

n        Shandong Stem Cells Engineering and Technology Research Center

Ÿ           one provincial level research institute

n        Shandong Intellectual Property Institute

Ÿ           one provincial humanities and social science research base

n        Applied Law Research Center

Ÿ           one provincial soft science research center

n        International Property Rights research center

Ÿ           one provincial level aesthetics research base

Ÿ           one provincial level university science park

n        Peking-Tsinghua-Yantai Tri-university Science Park

Publications

The university publishes the Journal of Yantai University, Natural, Science and Engineering Edition, and the Journal of Yantai University, Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition, both of which have been categorized as national key publications and national best publications.

International Cooperation

YTU has established friendly relations with 70 universities in 20 nations and regions. Each year 200 teachers and students travel abroad to study as exchange scholars or students. Every year there are approximately 300 visiting scholars at YTU doing research, along with 50 foreign teachers. Approximately 600 international students register at YTU each year to study various subjects.

YTU attaches great importance to the continuous improvement of teaching quality and combines the teaching of science with the practice of engineering.

With the motto of “Be trustworthy, be down-to-earth, be fond of learning, and practice earnestly,” YTU is dedicated to academic excellence.