The motto of Sun Yat-sen University is erudite, questioning, thoughtful, discerning and persistent. This was written by Dr. Sun Yat-sen himself when he held the inauguration ceremony in Guangdong University on June 1924+0 1. The original motto of Sun Yat-sen University is from the Confucian classic The Doctrine of the Mean. Chapter 20 says, "Be knowledgeable, interrogate, think deeply, distinguish clearly and persist."
Sun Yat-sen University is a domestic first-class and internationally renowned modern comprehensive university. It has a solid multidisciplinary foundation in humanities, social sciences and medical workers, constantly pursues academic innovation and is open to the world. Now it has formed the characteristics of "comprehensiveness, innovation and openness". Sun Yat-sen University adheres to the direction of running a school in Socialism with Chinese characteristics, adheres to the fundamental principle of moral education, takes "having both ability and political integrity, leadership temperament and feelings for home and country" as the training goal, and takes "facing the academic frontier, facing the country's major strategic needs, and facing the national and regional economic and social development" as the basic orientation, and establishes the development idea of "three campuses and five campuses" with dislocation development and common support.
The disciplines of Sun Yat-sen University include ecology, business administration, clinical medicine, philosophy, public administration, basic medicine, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, sociology, China history, physics, oceanography, library information and archives management, ideology and politics, Chinese language and literature, biology, theoretical economics, world history, archaeology, chemistry, geography and atmospheric science.