The postcode of Guangzhou University is 5 10006. The school is located at No.230, Outer Ring West Road, Guangzhou University Town. It is a comprehensive university covering ten disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art.

The school takes serving the needs of economic and social development as its own responsibility, adheres to the discipline drive, leads the connotation development, and the discipline level is rapidly improved. According to the idea of "strengthening science and engineering, doing excellent liberal arts and doing special education", we will optimize the layout of disciplines and specialties, and focus on building projects such as intelligent manufacturing engineering, mobile data science and engineering, life science and health, and urban underground space development.

Five science and engineering disciplines such as geography, environment and urban sustainable development in South China, and two humanities and social sciences disciplines platforms such as Lingnan culture and arts, modern finance and modern service industry (referred to as "5+2" discipline platforms) have formed a key construction discipline system consisting of four "first-class" provincial key construction disciplines such as civil engineering, mathematics, cyberspace security and statistics, 14 provincial key disciplines and a number of municipal key disciplines. Engineering and computer science are among the top 1% of ESI global rankings. Twenty-four disciplines entered the list of "Best Discipline in China in 20 18".