School of Information Science and Technology. As a characteristic major, the automation major of Sun Yat-sen University is in the School of Information Science and Technology. As a university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, Sun Yat-sen University is a comprehensive national key university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Bureau of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Guangdong Province, and ranks among the national "double-class", "985 Project" and "21/project".