Founded in 1953, China University of Petroleum (UPC) is a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education and a member of the national “211 Project”, “innovation platform for preponderant discipline” and “Double First-Rate” universities. The University is co-founded by the Ministry of Education, Shandong Province, and five national energy enterprise groups (CNPC, SINOPEC, CNOOC, CHINA SHENHUA and YANCHANG PETROLEUM). Honored as the cradle of petroleum science, technology and management talents, UPC is a renowned base for the training of cutting-edge talents in petroleum and petrochemical industries.
 

The university has two campuses in Shandong cities of Dongying and Qingdao. Qingdao Campus is the main campus and it enjoys the city’s reputation of being the “sailing city” and “city by the sea” with a charming scenery. The campus faces the Tangdao Bay and the Little Pearl Hill with their breathtaking picturesque views. The original campus of Dongying is located at the heart of Dongying city, the central city on the Yellow River delta and nationally known as China’s “oil city”. The campus still serves well as a significant research and practice base of the University.
 

UPC has 16 colleges and schools with over 1,700 faculty including 11 academicians, more than 1,000 professors and associate professors. There are full-time students including 19, 000 undergraduate students, 7,000 postgraduate students and 1,000 international students as well as 87,000 distance learning students.
 

Over the last six decades, UPC has developed into a multi-disciplinary and well-rounded institution specialized in petroleum and petrochemical engineering. With over 70 national and provincial key laboratories and research centers including the National Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil and the National Engineering Laboratory of Marine Geophysical Exploration and Equipment, UPC is a leading-edge theoretical and applied research base of petroleum and petrochemical industries. It plays a significant role in more than 10 research areas globally.
 

The University attaches great attention to the industrialization of science and research findings. It founded a National University Science and Technology Park and owns two national high-tech corporations. Both corporations are major research and test bases of petroleum and petrochemical industries. Between 2010 and 2014, UPC conducted 7287 research projects, attracting grants of CNY 2.8 billion.