Ocean College of Sun Yat-sen University was established in 2008. It has a complete school-running system including marine science undergraduate major, first-class master major and postdoctoral mobile station. At present, the College has built a key first-class discipline of marine science in Guangdong Province (the ninth round), ranking fourth in the third round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education and third in the fourth round of evaluation.

Training objectives: Taking marine living resources and marine environment as the training direction, students are required to master modern marine living resources management technology and profound ecological theory knowledge, have solid knowledge of natural science and good knowledge of humanities and social sciences, master a foreign language, skillfully apply modern information technology, and have the ability of marine living resources management, management, policy formulation, water environment monitoring and solving practical problems of sustainable utilization of marine resources and marine ecological environment protection.