Southern College of Sun Yat-sen University is an independent and private college jointly founded by Sun Yat-sen University and Guangdong Zhujiang Investment Group with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 2006. It is a multi-disciplinary full-time application-oriented undergraduate college, and was selected as a pilot college for undergraduate transformation in Guangdong Province in 20 16. It is not affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University, not under the jurisdiction of Sun Yat-sen University, but under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, which is far from the school-running level of Sun Yat-sen University.
Sun Yat-sen University is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), a national key state-owned university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Guangdong Province, and the first batch of national "double-class" A, "985 Project" and "21Project" construction units. He has been selected into the Everest Plan,11/plan, excellent legal talents education and training plan, excellent doctoral education and training plan, national postgraduate plan for building high-level universities, scholarship for overseas students of China government, and national demonstration university for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. It is a member of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Alliance. The school has become a first-class modern comprehensive university in China and internationally renowned, and is striving to become a global academic center.