Jinan University is a comprehensive University jointly built by the people's Government of Shandong Province and the Ministry of education. It is one of the key construction universities in Shandong Province, one of the first batch of famous universities with application-oriented talents training characteristics in Shandong Province, one of the "excellent engineer education and training plan" universities of the Ministry of education, one of the first class discipline construction universities in Shandong Province, one of the first batch of demonstration universities in deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in the whole country, and one of the first batch of Pilot Universities in the construction of emergency management college One belt, one road, the 111 national plan, the national new engineering research and practice project, the national engineering practice education center, and the national university student innovation and entrepreneurship training program.The predecessor of Jinan University is Shandong Institute of building materials industry, which was founded in 1948. In October 2000, approved by the Ministry of education, Shandong Institute of building materials industry and Jinan United University merged to form Jinan University. In April 2001, the former Jinan Civil Affairs School of the Ministry of civil affairs and the former Shandong material school were merged into Jinan University. In December 2007, with the decision of Shandong Provincial People's government and the approval of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and the Ministry of education, the master's degree authorized disciplines of Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences were merged into Jinan University to implement the integration of science and education. In 2013, Jinan University became a comprehensive University jointly built by Shandong Provincial People's government and the Ministry of education.As of June 2019, the university has three campuses, with an area of 2.43 million square meters, a building area of more than 1.04 million square meters, total fixed assets of 2.66 billion yuan, teaching and scientific research equipment of 398 million yuan, 24 secondary colleges, 96 undergraduate majors, 2 post doctoral research mobile stations, 5 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, and 25 first-class discipline master's degrees There are 2117 full-time teachers and 37529 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students.