Shandong Jiaotong University was established in the year of 1956. It mainly offers bachelor degree education, and enrolls students from all over China. The university has developed into a multi-discipline higher education institution to foster senior practical talents with engineering as its key disciplines and transportation related majors as its leading specialties.

The university is located in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province, and Weihai, a coastal city in the province, and has 3 campuses, which covers an area of 2,800 Mu (more than 461 acres). There are more than 15,000 full-time students, over 1,200 staff member, and more than 600 teaching faculty, among whom there are over 239 teachers holding senior professional titles, 32 doctor degree holders, and 362 master degree holders, as well as 10 receivers of special government subsidy granted by the State Council. The university is entitled to recruit overseas students and launch sino-foreign program of jointly running schools. The university library houses 1.25 million volumes of books.

The university consists of 14 departments/colleges, namely, Automobile Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Department, Transportation Engineering Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, Management Department, Information Engineering Department, Economics Department, Foreign Language Department, Humanity Science Department, Mathematics and Physics Department, Northern International College, Maritime College, Adult Education College, Vocational Technology College, and some teaching sections such as Social Sciences Teaching Section, Physical Education Teaching Section, Modern Education Center, etc.

The university offers 63 bachelor and associate degree specialties, such as Vehicle Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Logistic Management, Civil Engineering, Surveying Engineering, Marine Machinery Engineering, Navigation Technology, Mechanical Design, Manufacturing Automation, Computer Science Technology, Electric Engineering Automation, English, Finance and Marketing, etc. These specialties involve 6 discipline categories, namely, engineering, science, management, economics, laws, and arts.

The university has more than 70 labs, among which Vehicle Structure Test Lab, Civil Engineering Lab, Electronic Information & Intelligent Traffic Lab and Modern Manufacturing Technology LAb are funded by the central and provincial governments, Vehicle Malfunction Test Diagnosis Lab and Engineering Mechanical Electro-hydraulic Control Lab are the key labs of Ministry of Communications, and 6 labs are on the list of the key lab list of the university.

Since the establishment of the university 49 years ago, the university has fostered more than 50000 graduates to the country, and trained more than 40000 administrative workers and engineering technicians for enterprises and institutions of communication and transportation system.