School of Adult Higher Education of Shandong University of Technology aims to train high-quality workers and specialized staff with accomplishment and to enhance people's accomplishment in general. It has been established in providing further education for on-the-job staff and in promoting the economic development of Shandong Province , and has already turned out thousands of specialized talents.

    The adult higher education is an important part of education provided by Shandong University of Technology. Based on general education resources, 76 adult education majors with formal schooling record under 8 disciplines (engineering, science, liberal arts, law, economics, history, pedagogy, and management study) have been established. Among the 76 majors, 30 are 4-year programs and 46 3-year programs. The forms of schooling include: teaching by correspondence, evening classes, study while being released from regular work duty, and self-learning. The levels of schooling include: 4 or 3-year programs for students with senior high school diplomas, and bachelor degree programs for students with 3-year college program diplomas.

    In recent years, with the improvement of teaching quality and conditions, the reputation of the university has been enhanced, its scale enlarged and the number of students uplifted. The current student body is 14,000 with 32 correspondence teaching stations located in Shandong Province and throughout China .

    School of Adult Higher Education attaches great importance to education without formal schooling record and training programs while promoting adult education with formal schooling record. Great achievement has been made in education without formal schooling record such as on-the-job training, certificate training, joint programs, on-the-job postgraduate education, college entrance examination tutoring and computer ranking examination training.

    After nearly 30 years of development, adult education in our university has formed a multi-level and multi-form system of education with 4-year and 3-year college programs and training programs without formal schooling record.