At the school level, Southeast University is a vice-ministerial university, and South China University of Technology is not among the vice-ministerial universities.

In terms of discipline construction width, Southeast University 1 12 doctoral program, South China University of Technology 107 doctoral program. Southeast University has 238 master's degree authorization points and South China University of Technology 193 master's degree authorization points.

As far as the depth of discipline construction is concerned, both of them are dominant disciplines. The first is architecture. They are all eight major schools of architecture. Second, information and communication engineering, Southeast University scored 85 points, ranking fourth in the country; South China University of Technology scored 77 points, ranking 16 nationwide.

The number of academicians is Southeast University 13, and South China University of Technology has 7 members.