Up to now, there are 83 universities in Guangzhou, including Sun Yat-sen University, Jinan University, South China University of Technology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, South China Normal University, Guangzhou Institute of Physical Education, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Guangdong Teachers College of Technology, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou University and Guangzhou Maritime College.

South China University of Technology, located in Guangzhou, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. Its campus is divided into Wushan Campus, University Town Campus and Guangzhou International Campus, and won the first "National Civilized Campus". The school promotes the construction of first-class universities, with strong original scientific research and innovation ability. It has built 28 national scientific research platforms and 2 17 provincial scientific research platforms, ranking among the top universities in China and the first in Guangdong.

Guangzhou Medical University, founded in 1958, is a national "double-class" university, which takes medicine as its advantage and features and develops multi-level personnel training for doctors, masters and undergraduates. The school is the first batch of pilot colleges and universities in China with the "Excellent Doctoral Education and Training Program". Adhere to and implement the fundamental task of cultivating Lide Shu Ren, and strive to cultivate socialist builders and successors with outstanding responsibilities, exquisite professional skills, strong innovative spirit and practical ability, and all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, one of the three major pharmaceutical universities in China, is the first institution of higher learning in South China to offer a series of pharmacy majors. The school was founded in 1958, formerly known as Guangdong Health Cadre College; 1978, upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college, named Guangdong Medical College; 1994 was renamed as Guangdong Pharmaceutical University; In 2003, it became a master's authorized unit, and was renamed Guangdong Pharmaceutical University on 20 16 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2022, it was added as a doctoral degree awarding unit.