With the strategic adjustment of the economic structure of China and in order to meet the urgent needs of the software industry for talents, Software College, as a national demonstration college of software,was set up in 2001 with the ratification of the Ministry of Education and the Committee of Development and Reform of China.Since it was established, the college has been carrying out the outline on developing and promoting software industry formulated by the State Council and the government of Shandong Province. It also explores actively the reform in higher education system and mechanism as well as the operation model of pluralistic investment in education.As a result, it achieves a successful cooperative running of a school by building on the advantages of the computer discipline of Shandong University.

Since the day of its establishment, the goal of Software College of Shandong University is to train “high-level, engineering-typed and internationalized” students. According to the needs of enterprises and industries’ development, it determines the cultivation direction, curriculum and practical systems .It constantly regulates and optimizes its majors’ establishment. At the same time, it persists on the combination of the theory with practice, of the humanities with the advanced technologies.