Not long ago, on February 27th, Greater Bay Area University (marina bay Campus) also issued a pre-announcement of bidding. The first phase is scheduled to start in mid-2023 and be completed in 2026, and the overall campus construction is expected to be completed in 2030.
According to the general idea of "one school and two districts", Greater Bay Area University plans to build in marina bay New District and Songshan Lake High-tech Zone, with a total area of about 2,356 mu. Among them, Songshan Lake Campus is 256 mu, and marina bay Campus is 2 100 mu.
Greater Bay Area University is a public institution of higher learning managed by Guangdong Provincial People's Government and guaranteed by Dongguan Municipal Government. According to public reports, Greater Bay Area University is positioned as a high-level new research university focusing on science and engineering. It is planned to carry out full-time undergraduate, master and doctoral education, focusing on personnel training and scientific research in six aspects: materials science, advanced engineering, life science, next-generation information technology, science and finance.
The school plans to enroll 1 10,000 students by 2030 (5,000 students are reserved in the long term); The ratio of undergraduates to postgraduates should be about 1: 1. Among them, Songshan Lake Campus plans to arrange 2000 graduate students; Marina bay Campus plans to arrange 8,000 undergraduates and postgraduates, and reserve 5,000 students in the future.
In February this year, the departmental budget of Greater Bay Area University (to be built) in 2022 was announced. It is mentioned that Greater Bay Area University will actively promote the application for running a school, and plans to officially open its enrollment in 2023. In 2022, all the application materials will be sorted out, and the Application Form for Running Greater Bay Area University will be submitted to the Ministry of Education, so that it can be reviewed by the Evaluation Committee of University Establishment of the Ministry of Education in the fourth quarter of 2022 and approved by the Ministry of Education in the first half of 2023.
Previously, at the groundbreaking ceremony of Songshan Lake Campus of Greater Bay Area University held in April 20021year, Tian Gang, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was appointed as the person in charge of the preparation of Greater Bay Area University. According to the data, Tian Gang 1982 graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Nanjing University, 1984 received a master's degree in Peking University, 1988 received a doctorate in mathematics from Harvard University in the United States, 200 1 was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences, and in 2004 he was elected as an academician of American Academy of Humanities. Tian Gang used to be the vice president of Peking University, and in September 2020, he was appointed as the first president of the Institute of Theoretical Science of West Lake University.