The university is located in Jinan City. Its original site lies at the north foot of the beautiful Thousand-Buddha Mountain, covering an area of 146,666 square meters including a floor space of 157,000 square meters; the new site of the university is under construction, extending over an area of 11,148,666 square meters including a floor space of 480,000 square meters. The library owns a collection of over 825,300 volumes. It has set up a campus computer network with access to Internet.
With TCM disciplines as the maim body in tune with the development of the other disciplines, the university has formed a scientific academic structure. At present, the university has 13 schools and 2 departments; 2 state key specialties, 2 post-doctoral mobile stations, 15 doctoral specialties, 26 master’s specialties and 20 undergraduate specialties oriented at 36 disciplines.
The university boasts of a strong and qualified teaching faculty, with 59 tutors of doctoral students and 229 tutors of master students; 250 professors and 499 associate professors; and 4 honorary professors (academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science).
The university has formulated a scientific teaching system in clinical practicing. It has 2 affiliated hospitals, 7 unaffiliated hospitals and 97 teaching and practicing bases. Established in July,1955, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is recognized as a state’s exemplary TCM hospital. Through 50-year development, it has become a modern comprehensive hospital, the top TCM hospital in Shandong Province, with emphasis on medical care, teaching, scientific research, prevention, health care and rehabilitation.
