The university has the authority to confer bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as the right to recommend students for exemption from the entrance examination for graduate studies.
In 2001 after the merger with three colleges, the Shandong Institute of Building Materials was officially renamed the University of Ji'nan and Shao Guifang, Vice Governor of Shandong Province, and Lü Fuyuan, Vice Minister of Education of China, unveiled the plage for it.
The library occupies an area of 63,000 square meters and is equipped with a digital system, an information searching system, with a collection of more than 4.6 million printed and electronic books, and 4,200 kinds of Chinese and foreign periodicals, and possesses 23,000 kinds of electronic journals.
There are ten kinds of major specialties including Economics, Law, Education, Literature, History, Science, Technology, Medicine, Management, art, etc.
In addition, there is one key national laboratory managed by the Shandong Provincial Government and one engineering research center under the Chinese Ministry of Education.
The University of Ji'nan advocates an open education, and communicates and cooperates with different countries and districts in an active and all-around way.
The university also strengthens the employment of the foreign teachers, and over 300 foreign teachers and scholars from America, Britain, France, Germany and other countries have been invited to lecture, teach or to conduct research, and among them tens of internationally celebrated scholars were employed as visiting professor or emeritus professor.
In the past several years, the university actively responds to the deployment of the Confucius Institute Headquarter and the provincial Education Department by dispatching teachers and volunteers abroad to teach Chinese in countries like Ethiopia, Thailand, South Korea, and the Republic of Congo.
In addition, 3 Confucius Institutes has been built up in the Republic of Congo in Africa, South Dakota and City and County of Denver in America.