Guangzhou University, located in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is a comprehensive university focused on the construction of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, with a school-running system based on the construction of provinces and cities. It is a key university in Guangdong province's high-level university construction plan and a pilot university of "CDIO engineering education model reform research and practice".
Selected as "excellent engineer education and training plan", "11plan" and the national university student innovation and entrepreneurship training plan to build key universities. Wei Minghai, Party Secretary and President. The school motto is "erudite and persistent, keep pace with the times".
As of August, 2022, the school has University Town, Guihuagang and Huangpu Research Institute/Graduate School "one school and three parks". The school has 25 professional colleges, covering ten disciplines including philosophy, economics, law and education. 10 First-class discipline doctoral authorization points and doctoral professional degree authorization points, 4 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 36 academic master degree authorization points and 27 master professional degree authorization points; 74 undergraduate majors;
40 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites; 5 national specialties; 5 national scientific research platforms (including cultivation bases). Six disciplines, including engineering, computer science, chemistry, materials science, environment/ecology, and social science, entered the top of ESI global 1%. The school currently has 3,283 on-the-job teaching and administrative staff.
The history of Guangzhou University can be traced back to the private Guangzhou University founded by 1927. With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Guangzhou Normal University, South China Institute of Architecture (West Campus), Guangzhou Institute of Education, former Guangzhou University and Guangzhou Normal University were merged in 2000.
The former Guangzhou Institute of Education was founded in 1953, the former Guangzhou Normal University in 1958, the former South China Institute of Architecture (West Campus) in 1984 and the former Guangzhou Normal University in 1985.
By 2022, Guangzhou University will rank 91in China University of Soft Science in 2022; 2022 ABC China University Ranking 142.