Guangdong Ocean University, located in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, is a provincial-level key construction university jointly established by the State Oceanic Administration and the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, a key discipline construction university of Guangdong Province, and a member of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance. Selected as an excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training program, it is an excellent institution for undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education.

The school runs schools in Zhanjiang and Yangjiang, two beautiful coastal cities at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. The campus environment is beautiful, with mountains and water, evergreen trees and flowers, which is an ideal place for students to study and become talents. The school enrolls students from 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, with 35,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students, and 0/0/0.2 million adult higher education students.

Foreign exchanges and cooperation are increasingly active.

Facing the huge demand of the country and Guangdong Province, the school has promoted strategic cooperation with foreign universities and research institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school has established multi-level and multi-field good cooperative relations with more than 50 universities and research institutions in the United States, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Britain, Australia, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province.