The School of Nursing is one of the 36 colleges (departments)atQingdao University. Established in December 2000, the school currently has 28 full-time facultyand staffmembers, including 20 faculty members. Among them,one isafullprofessor, 14areassociate professors,16holddoctoral degrees.There are 404 full-time students, including 299 undergraduate students and 105 master's students. Since its establishment, the School of Nursing has inherited and carried forward the concept and spirit of "benevolence, aspiration, rigor, and pragmatism" of generations of nurses. It has focused on reform and development, concentrated its efforts to strive for excellence, and after more than a decade of hard work, the School of Nursing has achieved rapid development in its disciplines and specialties.

Nursing education at Qingdao University has a long history, dating back to 1946 when the National Shandong University Senior Nursing School was established. In 1995, nursing diploma education commenced, followed by nursing undergraduate education in 1998. The school was granted the authority to confer master's degrees in nursing in 2003, and in 2010, it became one of the first institutions in China authorized to award professional master's degrees in nursing. The authorization for the professional master's degree in nursing was successfully evaluated by the Ministry of Education in 2015. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education in 2016, Qingdao University's nursing discipline was ranked 31st in the country, showing significant progress in the fifth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education in 2021. In 2020, it was recognized as a national first-class undergraduate program, becoming one of the key majors for nurturing applied talents in Shandong Province and for transforming education services in the region. That same year, it received certification for nursing education from the Ministry of Education with outstanding results. In 2024, Qingdao University's nursing discipline was ranked B+ in the country in the GDI University Discipline Ranking.

The School of Nursing has six teaching and research offices: Fundamental Nursing, Adult Nursing, Maternal and Child Nursing, Community andGerontologicalNursing, Nursing Humanities, and Clinical Nursing. It has a teaching and research laboratory for nursing. The school has ahybridfacultyteam that combines full-time and part-timefaculty members. With a strong faculty and a reasonable staff structure, the school has a high level of education, with 80% of full-timefaculty membersholding doctoral degrees. The school will continue to strengthen the recruitment of high-level talents and strive to build afacultyteam with rigorous scholarship, strong teaching and research capabilities, and a certain influence in the field of nursing in China.