History
The university was founded in 1953 as the Qingdao Institute of Architecture and Engineering. In 1960 it was renamed into Shandong Metallurgy College. During the decades that followed it developed into a large and all-encompassing university and was placed under the administration of the Provincial Education Department in 1998. In 2004, it was granted full University status.
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