QS ranks 757th in the world university rankings; QS ranks 401-450 in the ranking of Asian universities; Agriculture and forestry ranked 36th.

South China Agricultural University, referred to as "Huanong", is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is a national key university and a national "double-class" construction university. It is a provincial university jointly established by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and a high-level university in Guangdong Province.

It has been selected as a national key discipline project, a national graduate program to build a high-level university, the first batch of "three-round education" reform pilot universities of the Ministry of Education, a national demonstration university to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, a scholarship receiving institution for foreign students in China, and a national pilot university to reform the "excellent agricultural and forestry personnel education and training program".

Introduction to QS World University Rankings:

QS World University Ranking is an annual world university ranking published by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS for short), a British international education market consulting company.

Together with Times Higher Education World University Ranking, American News World University Ranking and academic ranking of world universities of Soft Science, it is recognized as the four more authoritative world university rankings.

QS World University Ranking is based on academic reputation, employer reputation, teacher-student ratio, research citation rate and degree of internationalization, and is rated as one of the most striking university rankings in the world because of its open and transparent questionnaire survey.