University of South China and Shantou University are basically universities at the same level, but their characteristics are different.

The prominent disciplines of South China University are nuclear science and technology, mining engineering, basic medicine and safety engineering, especially nuclear science, nuclear technology, nuclear chemical engineering and nuclear fuel engineering, and it is a national key management professional group. The national key disciplines of Shantou University are pathology and pathophysiology, and immunology, pharmacology and mathematics (basic mathematics) are also provincial key majors. Its business administration (all undergraduate majors in business schools have passed EPAS international certification), art design, law, clinical medicine, mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, civil engineering, and radio and television journalism are also listed as national specialty.

If you plan to study nuclear engineering and mining, you can consider South China University with strong national defense characteristics. Most other majors can consider Shantou University, especially Shantou University, which is listed as a provincial-level 2 1 1 construction in Guangdong and has a relatively high status in the province.