The education department has not divided Jinan University into one or two, and the diploma is only divided into undergraduate and junior college, but several books are just a folk saying. (If a university enrolls students in the first batch in a province, it is usually considered as a university; if it enrolls students in the second batch, it is usually considered as two universities). Jinan University is a double-class university, which is basically the first batch of enrollment in China, so we usually regard Jinan University as a university.

Jinan University, referred to as "Jida", is headquartered in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is directly under the leadership of the Central United Front Work Department and is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the United Front Work Department and Guangdong Province. It is a national "double-class" and national "2 1 1 project" construction university; Selected in the national "985 platform", "11plan", "20 1 1 plan", excellent doctoral education and training plan, excellent legal talents education and training plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan.

There are key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, national college students' cultural quality education base, national Chinese teaching base, Chinese education base of the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, national graduate program of building high-level universities, new engineering research practice project, scholarship receiving institutions of China government for international students in China, and the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education; Director of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation Alliance; It is the first batch of universities in China to try out the credit system.