1. List of 211 and 985 universities in Guangdong
List of 211 universities in Guangdong
Ranking School name Location Student quality score
1 Sun Yat-sen University Guangdong 81.1
2 South China University of Technology Guangdong 74.8
3 Jinan University Guangdong 69.6
4 South China Normal University Guangdong 60
Guangdong 985 University List
Ranking School name School location Student quality score
1 Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong 81.1
2 South China University of Technology, Guangdong 74.8
2. Introduction to Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University was founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen and has a tradition of running schools for more than 100 years. As a university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, Sun Yat-sen University has become a first-class domestic and internationally renowned modern comprehensive university through the establishment of the ministry and the province. It currently consists of three campuses, namely Guangzhou Campus, Zhuhai Campus and Shenzhen Campus, five campuses and ten affiliated hospitals. Sun Yat-sen University is moving towards becoming a world-class university and striving to become a global academic center.
Sun Yat-sen University has a solid foundation in humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and engineering. It constantly pursues academic innovation and runs an open school with an international perspective. It has now formed the characteristics of "comprehensive, innovative, and open". The school adheres to the direction of running a school under socialism with Chinese characteristics, adheres to the foundation of cultivating people with moral integrity, and takes "both political integrity and talent, leadership temperament, and feelings of family and country" as its talent training goals; it aims to "face the academic frontier, face the country's major strategic needs, and face the country and the region". "Economic and Social Development" is the basic orientation; a development idea of ??"three campuses and five campuses" staggered development and joint support has been established. The school is working hard to promote the transformation from extensional development to connotation development, from conventional development to active development, and from the advantages of liberal arts, science and medicine to the unique and integrated development of liberal arts, science, medicine and engineering. Now, Sun Yat-sen University is standing at a new starting point, striving to build itself into a first-class socialist university with Chinese characteristics that is “the first square of domestic universities and one of the world’s first-class universities”!
The total funding for running schools has increased. Quickly: The school’s total revenue in 2018 exceeded RMB 8.5 billion.
Strong disciplinary strength and outstanding influence: 19 of the school’s subject areas are among the top 1 in the ESI world, second only to Peking University in the number of subject areas, and tied for domestic universities with Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Fudan University No. 2, with 15 subject areas in the top 0.5 and 2 subject areas in the top 0.1. In the fourth round of national subject level assessment, 50 subjects of the school participated in the assessment, and the number of A-category subjects (A, A, A-) was 14.
Strong teaching staff: 20 academicians (including dual-employment), 146 candidates for the Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Program, 63 members of the Ministry of Education’s “Changjiang Scholars” Award Program, and National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Young Scholars There are 79 recipients of the Science Fund, 59 recipients of the National Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and 57 recipients of the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents. The number of high-level talents ranks among the top among domestic universities.
3. Introduction to South China University of Technology
South China University of Technology is located in Guangzhou. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. The campus is divided into Wushan Campus, University City Campus and Guangzhou International Campus. It is the first unit to win the "National Civilized Campus". The school has a long history of running schools, which can be traced back to the Guangdong Provincial No. 1 Class A Industrial School established in 1918. It was formally established in 1952 during the national adjustment of higher education institutions and became one of the four major engineering colleges in New China. In 1960, it became a national key university. In 1981, it was approved by the State Council as one of the first batch of doctoral and master's degree-granting units; in 1993, it was the first of its kind in the country's first provincial-level universities; in 1995, it entered the ranks of the "211 Project"; in 2001, it entered the ranks of the "985 Project"; in 2017 It was selected into the list of Class A universities for the "Double First-Class" construction, and ranked 201-300 in the "Academic Ranking of World Universities" in 2018.
Today, South China University of Technology has developed into a comprehensive research university that specializes in engineering, combines science, engineering, and medicine, and coordinates the development of management, economics, liberal arts, law and other disciplines. The overall level of disciplines such as light industry technology and engineering, architecture, food science and engineering, chemical engineering and technology, environmental science and engineering, materials science and engineering, mechanical engineering, management science and engineering, etc. has entered the top 10 in the country; 9 subject areas have entered the top 10 in the country. ESI ranks top 1 in the world for international high-level disciplines. Among them, engineering, materials science, chemistry, and agricultural science are among the top 1‰. The number of selected subjects ranks tied for 6th among universities nationwide, and first in South China.
Since its establishment, the school has trained more than 510,000 higher education students of all types for the country, and a large number of graduated alumni have become the backbone of China's science and technology, famous entrepreneurs and leading cadres. The school is known as the cradle of engineers and entrepreneurs, and its graduate employment rate has been among the highest among universities nationwide and in Guangdong Province for many years. In 2017, it was selected as a national “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” demonstration base.
The school promotes the construction of first-class universities with its strong original scientific research and innovation capabilities. It has established 27 national-level scientific research platforms and 185 ministry-level and provincial-level scientific research platforms. The number ranks among the top universities in the country and the first among universities in Guangdong. Since 2009, the cumulative number of China Patent Awards awarded has ranked first among universities nationwide; in 2015, the patent technology transfer indicator ranked first among universities nationwide.