National ranking of Guangzhou University: Guangzhou University ranked 91in China University in 2022; 2022 ABC China University Ranking 142.
Guangzhou University, located in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, is a key comprehensive university in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City. It is a key university in Guangdong Province's high-level university construction plan, a pilot university of "CDIO engineering education mode reform research and practice" and a key university in the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan.
As of August 2022, the school has "one school and three parks" in the University Town, Guihuagang and the Graduate School of Huangpu Research Institute. The school has 25 professional colleges, covering ten disciplines including philosophy, economics, law and education. At present, there are 1-level discipline doctoral authorization points and professional doctoral degree authorization points 10, 4 postdoctoral research mobile stations and 36 academic master degree authorization points.
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.