Dalian University is a comprehensive university, offering courses in the fields of education, humanities, history, law, sciences, engineering, medicine and administration. Dalian University recruits students from the city of Dalian as well as other parts of China. Situated in Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone and at the foot of the luxuriant vegetation covered Dahei Mountain, Dalian University has more than 1 00 whitish buildings scattered on campus which are divided into building groups of academic subject areas by patches of greenbelts. The beautiful campus and advanced teaching facilities provide students with a nice leaning and research environment.

Founded in October 1987, Dalian University is a merger of three colleges, which were then separated in four places. The construction of the new campus started in 1 992 and was completed in less than three years. The new campus in the development zone occupies an area of 1.08 million square meters with the building area of 250,000 square meters. The movement to the new campus changed the conditions of the University fundamentally and made the merger come true in a real sense. The movement also laid a solid foundation for the further development of the University.In October 1998, Dalian University passed the evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education.

There are currently fourteen colleges and four departments with thirty-four bachelor's degree programs. The l ,500 faculty and staff members include 655 full-time teachers. Full-time students amount to nearly 9,000. The College of international Cultural Exchange hosts over sixty international students. The enrollment in College of Adult Education is over 3,000 students. The library has a collection of 720,000 volumes, including over 5,000 various periodicals. The literature retrieval system in the library has been classified as the first-class academic literature retrieval station in China. There are over 1,500 computers for teaching and administration in the University. The attachment establishments to the university include a medical school, a high school, a vocational school and three hospitals.