Shandong University of the Arts is an undergraduate university, a second university.

Shandong University of the Arts is located in Jinan, a famous historical and cultural city surrounded by famous springs. It is the only comprehensive higher art institution in Shandong Province. After several generations of unremitting efforts, it has now developed into a comprehensive higher art institution with profound cultural heritage, complete disciplines and majors, a high level of schooling, and superior schooling conditions. It plays an important role in art education and the cultivation of artistic talents in Shandong Province.

The school currently offers 31 undergraduate majors, 50 professional directions, and 6 junior college majors, including 3 national-level specialty majors (painting, public service management, and art design), and 6 Shandong majors. Provincial brand specialty majors (painting, public service management, art design, performance, musicology, radio and television directing), 2 high-level application-oriented project construction professional groups in Shandong Province (radio and television directing professional group, drama, film and television directing professional group group); there is a national-level talent training model innovation experimental area (arts discipline independent talents training model experimental area).