📖 About the university

Shandong Sport University was founded in 1958 in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province, and it has grown over more than six decades into one of China's leading specialized institutions for physical education, sports training and sports science. In addition to its main campus in Jinan, the university operates a coastal campus in the city of Rizhao on Shandong's southern coastline, which supports water-sports and outdoor-training programs benefiting from the area's beaches and mild maritime climate. The university is particularly renowned for its wushu, or Chinese martial arts, programs, which have produced numerous national and international-level competitors and coaches, alongside strong offerings in sports training, physical education, sports management and sports media and journalism. Its academic structure includes schools focused on physical education, competitive sports training, martial arts and traditional national sports, sports health sciences, and sports media, reflecting a comprehensive approach to the discipline that goes beyond athletic training alone into sports science, management and communication. As one of Shandong's dedicated sport universities, it plays a key role in training physical-education teachers, coaches, and sports administrators for schools, sports bureaus and professional teams across the province and beyond.

🎯 Fields of study

🏛️ Colleges & schools

🌆 About Jinan

Jinan is the capital of Shandong province, known historically as the City of Springs for the many artesian springs that bubble up within the city itself, including the famous Baotu Spring and Daming Lake. It has a temperate continental monsoon climate with hot, humid summers and cold, dry winters, and its old town blends spring-fed canals and gardens with a fast-growing modern skyline along the Yellow River. As Shandong's provincial capital, Jinan is a major centre of government, education, finance and manufacturing, hosting numerous universities and research institutes and serving a province that is one of China's largest by population and economic output. The city is known for Lu cuisine, one of China's eight great culinary traditions, along with its clear-water scenery, Buddhist and Confucian heritage sites nearby such as Qufu, and a growing number of parks built around its natural springs. Jinan is well served by high-speed rail links to Beijing and Shanghai and by an international airport, making it a convenient base for study in eastern China.

💰 Fees & costs

💡 General estimates for international students in China; they vary by major and university, and the official figure is always on the university website.

🛂 Visa requirements by nationality

These are the general steps for the China student visa (X1/X2); details vary by the Chinese embassy in your country.