Sun Yat-sen University is ranked 319th in the world.
Ranked 79th in the world by Ranke.
Sun Yat-sen University, referred to as "Zhongshan University", is directly under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Education. It is a comprehensive national key university established by the Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and Guangdong Province. It is among the first batch of national "
"Double First-class" Category A, "985 Project", "211 Project", selected into the national "Everest Plan", "111 Plan", "2011 Plan", Outstanding Legal Talent Education and Training Plan, Outstanding Doctor Education and Training Plan, National College Student Innovation
Experimental plan, national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training plan.
As of September 2020, Sun Yat-sen University consists of three campuses: Guangzhou Campus, Zhuhai Campus, and Shenzhen Campus, five campuses, and ten affiliated hospitals; it offers 136 undergraduate majors; 45 postdoctoral research stations, and first-level doctoral programs
51, including 59 first-level master’s degree programs and 37 professional degree categories.
In 1935, a research institute was established and began to recruit graduate students, becoming one of only three universities in the country at that time (one of the first three universities in China to establish a "research institute").
In 1938, the Normal College was established, and the Polytechnic Institute added the Department of Architectural Engineering.
In October of the same year, affected by the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Chengjiang, Yunnan, and moved back to Pingshi, northern Guangdong in 1940.
Discipline construction: As of February 2015, Sun Yat-sen University has 42 first-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization, 4 second-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization (excluding first-level discipline coverage points), and 52 first-level disciplines for master's degree authorization.
points, 2 doctoral professional degree categories, 26 master's professional degree categories (including engineering master's degree in 19 fields), and 41 postdoctoral research mobile stations.
There are 2 national key disciplines in the first-level disciplines, 23 national key disciplines in the second-level disciplines, 6 national key cultivation disciplines, and 37 key disciplines in Guangdong Province (including 20 key climbing disciplines and 17 advantageous key disciplines); in the Ministry of Education
In the third round of national subject level assessment organized by the Degree and Graduate Education Development Center in 2012, 16 subjects of Sun Yat-sen University ranked among the top 5 and 32 subjects ranked among the top 10.
As of September 2015, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Essential Science Indicators Database (ESI), among all 22 disciplines in the ESI database, Sun Yat-sen University has 17 disciplines ranked among the top 1% in the world, and the number of selected disciplines ranks third among universities in the country.
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There are currently 20 academicians (including dual-employment), 81 recipients of the National Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 48 recipients of the National Natural Science Foundation for Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 27 recipients of the National Special Support Program for High-Level Talents, and 27 senior academicians.
The number of high-level talents ranks among the top among domestic universities.