According to the latest list of first-class majors (research-oriented) of China University in 2022, Southern Medical University ranks 13 in clinical medicine.
Southern Medical University is one of the first national key universities set up by ministries and commissions, and also one of the first eight universities in China to offer eight-year clinical medicine graduate students. Selected into the national graduate program of building high-level universities and the key construction universities of high-level universities in Guangdong Province.