Shandong University is a comprehensive university with a long and honorable history, a broad variety of disciplines, and strong academic strength. The past few years witness the remarkable development of Shandong University, with a significant enhancement in both the quality and the international influence. There are over 75,000 students and 4,800 faculties. Until now, Shandong University has developed 49 disciplines authorized to offer doctoral degree programs. Shandong University has established 7 State Key Laboratories, 4 Key Research Bases of Humanities and Social Sciences under the Ministry of Education, and 5 national-level scientific research platforms in Humanities and Social Sciences. At present, 7 disciplines have ranked among the top 1 ‰ in the ESI Global Rankings, and 20 disciplines among the top 1% in the ESI Global Rankings. Shandong University was ranked 292nd in Best Global Universities of U.S. News Rankings in 2024-2025, and 316th in the QS World University Rankings 2025.

School of Civil Engineering, founded in 1947, is one of the oldest and strongest colleges of Shandong University. It is also one of the earliest institutions in Shandong Province to establish the discipline of Civil Engineering, and one of the fastest developing colleges at Shandong University in recent years.

School of Civil Engineering has been always holding the country’s most fundamental interests and pursuing high-level development. We have served many major national projects, for example, water diversion in central Yunnan, and have undertaken more than 1500 social service projects. In 2001, with the establishment of the Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Research Center, the development of School of Civil Engineering entered a fast lane. In 2019, Prof. Li Shucai was elected as the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2023, State Key Laboratory for Tunnel Engineering was approved.

School of Civil Engineering has established five teaching departments, including Structural Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Architecture, and Engineering Software. There are currently 127 full-time faculties, including 38 full professors and 44 associate professors. There is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 national leading talents, who have made extraordinary achievements to our country and played a leading role in their fields, 16 national young talents, who are well-educated, young and have showed great academic potential and capability in their fields, and more than 30 ministerial and provincial talents. School of Civil Engineering has been approved as the Innovation Research Team of Changjiang Scholars sponsored by Ministry of Education, Key Field Innovation Team sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, and has been awarded Science Fund for Creative Research Groups by National Natural Science Foundation. School of Civil Engineering has undertaken more than 400 scientific research projects, including National Program on Key Basic Research Project, and Major and Key Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Faculty members have won four Second Class Awards of State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, one Shandong Provincial Highest Science and Technology Award, and more than ten first prizes of Science and Technology Award at the provincial and ministerial levels. The subject of Civil Engineering was ranked 9th in the 2024 Best Chinese Subjects Ranking (Shanghai Ranking).

Adhering to the fundamental task of “cultivating and nurturing talents with high virtue”, School of Civil Engineering has established four undergraduate majors, including Civil, Hydraulic and Marine Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Architecture, and Engineering Software, with two disciplines authorized to offer doctoral degree programs in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and three disciplines authorized to offer master degree programs in Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. There are 661 undergraduate students, 357 master students, and 176 PhD students. Taking the mission of cultivating excellent engineering talents with international vision and social responsibility, School of Civil Engineering has created “Qian Class” (Qian Qihu Excellence in Engineering Program), which is one of the “Programs for Cultivating Top Innovative Talents of Shandong University”, and has established the major of engineering software, which is a cross-integration of engineering and software technology for the first time across the country. School of Civil Engineering adheres to cultivating talents with industry practices, scientific research and innovation contests. Students have won 10 national gold awards and 26 silver awards in various competitions like “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. We have established substantial cooperative relations with nearly 30 universities in the United States, Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea, etc. Our cooperation with foreign universities mainly centers on the discipline of Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, providing ample international learning and exchange opportunities for students. Since 2016, one of the most distinctive and influential international cooperative programs at SDU, the CAMPUS Asia Program has been developed, from which around 380 students have benefited until now.

School of Civil Engineering will continue to firmly grasp the major opportunity of building an elite university, follow the mission of Shandong University to “nurture talents for the world and seek prosperity for the nation”, and live up to the motto of being “noble in spirit, endless in knowledge”. With the attitude of “seeking truth, pursuing innovation, striving for excellence”, we will be committed to social responsibility, spare no effort to pursue high quality development, and write a new chapter in the construction of building world-class disciplines.