Jinan University, located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is directly under the management of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee. It is a full-time ordinary institution of higher learning organized by the state with distinctive characteristics of overseas Chinese higher education. It is a national "double first-class" "2 1 1 project" construction institution, a key construction institution of high-level universities in Guangdong Province, the first batch of national credit system pilot universities, the first batch of demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and selected as the "National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base".
As of March 2022, the school has five campuses in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, and its headquarters is located in Shipai, Guangzhou. The total campus area is 2143,000m2, and the school building area is 18 1.0 1 1,000m2. The school has 38 colleges, 58 departments and 27 directly affiliated research institutes. There are 105 undergraduate majors, 26 doctoral degree awarding points in first-class disciplines and 4 master degree awarding points in first-class disciplines.
Discipline construction:
By March 2022, the school had 1 national "double-class" construction disciplines, 4 national key disciplines two disciplines, 8 the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office key disciplines two disciplines, 2 state administration of traditional chinese medicine traditional Chinese medicine key disciplines two disciplines, 22 Guangdong provincial key disciplines first-class disciplines, 12 Guangdong provincial key disciplines two disciplines, and 1 Guangdong provincial key disciplines interdisciplinary.
Chemistry, clinical medicine, engineering, pharmacology, materials science, biology and biochemistry, agricultural science, environmental science/ecology, botany and zoology, molecular biology and genetics, social science, neuroscience and ethology, computer science and other disciplines have entered the top 1% of ESI world rankings.