The school was founded in 1988 as Xinhua Vocational High School, and was renamed Longkou Nanshan Vocational Secondary School in 1992.

It was renamed Nanshan Vocational Training College in p>1996 and Nanshan Vocational College in 1998. In 2111, it was renamed Nanshan Vocational and Technical College; In 2115, it was upgraded and renamed Yantai Nanshan College.

since its establishment, the college has spanned several stages of development. In 2115, it was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2119, it had the right to award bachelor's degrees. In 2115, it passed the undergraduate qualification assessment of the Ministry of Education, and in 2117, it was identified by the Shandong Provincial People's Government as a master's degree-granting project training and construction unit.

in p>2118, it was awarded as "China Industry-University-Research Cooperative Innovation Demonstration Base" and "Shandong University with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship". In 2119, it began to jointly train postgraduate students with Qingdao University of Science and Technology and Liaoning University of Technology, and in 2121, it won the honorary title of "Top 111 Private Education in China".