Shandong Institute of physical education is an ordinary college of physical education.The school was founded in 1958. In 2000, with the approval of Shandong Provincial People's government, Shandong Institute of sports technology and Shandong sports research center were merged to form a new Shandong Institute of sports. In 2017, the University became a provincial doctoral project construction unit in Shandong Province.As of December 2018, the school has built two campuses, Jinan (school headquarters) and Rizhao. The campus covers an area of more than 2060 mu, the building area of the school is 579000 square meters, the total asset value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 121.405 million yuan, and the school has paper books There are 583870 volumes and 1769937 volumes of e-books; the school has 11 teaching institutions, 20 majors, 5 Master's degree programs of secondary disciplines and 1 master's degree program of primary disciplines; there are 711 teaching staff, 415 full-time teachers, 8 doctoral supervisors, 161 master's supervisors and 8380 full-time students.