Official website of Southern Medical University shows that Southern Medical University is neither 985 nor 2 1 1. This school is the only medical college among the key construction universities of high-level universities in Guangdong Province, and it is also the first batch in China. It is the only one jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Wellness Commission and Guangdong Province. The discipline covers seven major disciplines: medicine, science, engineering, literature, management, law and economics.