Guangzhou Southern College (formerly Southern College of Sun Yat-sen University) is a comprehensive and applied undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education in 2006. It is a pilot institution for the comprehensive reform of higher education system in Guangdong Province, the first batch of pilot institutions for the transformation of ordinary undergraduate courses in Guangdong Province, the construction unit for granting master's degrees in Guangdong Province, the supporting unit of the National Social Science Fund and the National Natural Science Fund, and the pilot institution for deepening the reform of education evaluation in Guangdong Province in the new period. ?
The school puts forward and practices the general principle of "beneficial to the growth of students, the development of teachers and the future of the school", and has gathered a group of department heads, academic leaders and management backbones who inherit the fine traditions and spiritual culture of domestic first-class universities. They have always dreamed of promoting the reform of higher education in China in this "experimental field" of the school and realizing the vision of "building a high-level university with distinctive characteristics that is at the forefront of China's application-oriented universities". ?
The school is located in Conghua District, Guangzhou, which is known as the "Pearl on the Tropic of Cancer" and "Guangzhou Back Garden". Campus area 1092.09 mu. Campus layout, beautiful and quiet, is to cultivate sentiment, study and study. Undergraduate students 19890, continuing education students 1863. After more than ten years of construction, it presents a development pattern of a thousand mu campus, a scale of ten thousand people, complete disciplines, a gathering of famous teachers and a large number of talents.
There are 45 undergraduate enrollment majors in the school 1 1 department, which has formed a discipline system with management, arts and engineering as the mainstay, coordinated development of economy, medicine and art, reasonable structure and complementary advantages. Cooperate with Griffith College in Ireland to organize undergraduate education programs in data science and big data technology. In 2022, it was approved by the master's degree construction unit to jointly train postgraduate students, and jointly carried out full-time professional degree postgraduate training with Guangzhou University.