Generally speaking, Guangdong people have a very high recognition of Sun Yat-sen University, and other southern provinces also have a strong sense of identity with CUHK. The farther north, the weaker this sense of identity is.

The profile of Sun Yat-sen University is as follows:

Sun Yat-sen University, referred to as "CUHK" for short, is located in Guangdong Province and directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). It is a comprehensive national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the State Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Guangdong Province.

1924, Sun Yat-sen personally integrated many universities in Guangzhou and founded the National Guangdong University. 1926 was named National Sun Yat-sen University. Today, the school was formed by the merger of Sun Yat-sen University and Sun Yat-sen Medical University, which were separated after the adjustment of departments in 1952, and it was 20010.

As of September 2022, the school consists of three campuses, namely Guangzhou Campus, Zhuhai Campus and Shenzhen Campus, five campuses and ten affiliated hospitals. Set 14 1 undergraduate major; At present, there are 44 post-doctoral research stations, 57 first-class doctoral programs, 64 first-class master programs and 43 professional degree categories.

Student 67 135, undergraduate 33224, master 2365438, doctor1kloc-0/63 international students; Full-time teachers 477 1 person.

As of September, 2022, the school has departments of economics and management, medicine, humanities, sociology, science, engineering and information, with undergraduate major 14 1 (the right to run a school). June 20021The official website shows that there are 33 colleges (departments) in Guangzhou campus, 20 colleges (departments) in Zhuhai campus, 16 colleges in Shenzhen campus, 10 affiliated hospitals and 138 undergraduate majors.

By September, 2022, there were 57 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 1 doctoral degree authorized by two disciplines (excluding first-class disciplines), 64 master's degrees authorized by two disciplines (excluding first-class disciplines), 5 doctoral degree categories, 43 master's degree categories and 44 post-doctoral research stations.

There are 2 first-class disciplines, 23 national key disciplines in two disciplines and 6 national key disciplines (cultivation): 37 key disciplines in Guangdong Province, including 20 key disciplines for climbing the peak and 17 key disciplines for advantages.