At present, 2 1 1 university is no longer selected, and a double-class university has been built. According to the information from official website of Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong University of Technology is a provincial key university with engineering as the main course, engineering, management, law and art as the combination, and a key construction university of high-level universities in Guangdong Province. 1958 started undergraduate education. 1995 was formed by the merger of Guangdong Institute of Technology, Guangdong Institute of Machinery and South China Institute of Architecture (East Campus). In 2024, the Times Higher Education World University ranked 35th-49th in mainland universities, and in 2023, academic ranking of world universities ranked 30th1-400th in the world.

The school is headquartered in Guangzhou, a famous city in the south of China. It has many campuses such as University Town, Dongfeng Road, Longdong, Panyu, Shahe and Jieyang, with a total area of more than 5,300 mu and a beautiful environment.