The University occupies an area of 200 hectares with a total classroom and office space of 940,000 square meters with Colleges (Schools) of Physical and Environmental Oceanography, Information Science and Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Marine Life Science, Marine Geo-science, Fisheries, Engineering, Mathematics, Management, Economics, Foreign Languages, Arts, Law, Environmental Science and Technology, Continuing Education, Applied Technology, Material Science and Engineering, International Education, Public Administration, Medicine and Pharmaceutics, and Food Science and Engineering.

The University has over 21,000 registered students, including 5,000 doctoral or master's degree students, over 10,200 undergraduates and 1,200 international students. OUC has currently a total number of more than 2,300 faculty members and administrative staff. Among them there are 400 professors, 460 associate professors and lab technicians, as well as quite a few nation-wide or world-recognized experts and scholars including three academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, four academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and over 200 Ph.D. supervisors. Mr. WANG Meng, the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association as well as a famous modern Chinese writer, is one of our professors, advisors and also the Dean of our College of Humanities.