According to the Pocket College Entrance Examination, Guangzhou University is a comprehensive university, which was formed by the merger of former Guangzhou Normal University, South China Institute of Architecture (West Campus), Guangzhou Education College, former Guangzhou University and Guangzhou Normal College. In 2023, the Alumni Association ranked 134, and the soft subject ranked 97. The national ranking of Guangzhou University is influenced by many factors, such as faculty, discipline construction, scientific research level, employment quality and so on. Guangzhou University has a high-quality faculty, including 4 full-time academicians of the two academies,/kloc-0 full-time foreign academicians, 5 distinguished academicians and 4 double-hired academicians. Guangzhou University has 6 provincial key construction disciplines, 14 provincial key disciplines and 16 municipal key disciplines and key supporting disciplines. Six disciplines, including engineering, computer science, chemistry, materials science, environment/ecology, and social science, entered the top of ESI global 1%.