The college is private.

Yantai Nanshan University is a full-time general undergraduate college invested and established by Nanshan Holdings, a Fortune 500 company in China, and approved by the Ministry of Education. It is a private college. The college is located in Longkou City, Yantai, Shandong Province. It is a high-level application-oriented undergraduate university with coordinated development of six major disciplines: engineering, management, economics, art, literature, and medicine. Since its establishment, the college has spanned multiple stages of development and won the honorary title of "Top 100 Private Education in China" in 2021.