广州大学 (Chinese) | |||||||||||
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| Motto | 博学笃行，与时俱进 | ||||||||||
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Motto in English | Encyclopaedic studying, sincere practice, trend tide and welcome wave. | ||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||
| Established | 1927 | ||||||||||
| President | Wei Minghai | ||||||||||
Academic staff | 2,401 | ||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 30,024 | ||||||||||
| Location | , , China | ||||||||||
| Campus | Urban, 1.32 km2 | ||||||||||
| Affiliations | Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance (GHMUA) | ||||||||||
| Website | english | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 广州大学 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 廣州大學 | ||||||||||
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Guangzhou University (GZHU; Chinese: 广州大学) is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China.
Guangzhou University is currently one of the 13 high-level universities in Guangdong Province. Guangzhou University was established in 2000 through the merger of the former Guangzhou University, South China Construction Institute West Campus, Guangzhou Normal College, Guangzhou Institute of Education, and Guangzhou Higher Normal College. The university operates under a co-management system between the provincial and municipal governments, with the city taking the lead. The legal address of Guangzhou University is 230 Outer Ring West Road, University Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and it currently has three campuses: University Town Campus, Guihuagang Campus, and Huangpu Campus.
As of June 2022, Guangzhou University has 27 colleges covering 10 major academic disciplines in arts and sciences, with 30,043 undergraduate students and 6,951 master's and doctoral students. The university offers 10 first-level discipline doctoral programs and doctoral professional degree programs, 36 first-level discipline master's programs, and 27 professional master's degree programs, and holds the qualification to recommend students for exemption from the entrance exam for master's programs. As of June 2022, Guangzhou University has 5 national-level research platforms (including incubation bases) and 73 provincial and ministerial-level research platforms. Since 2016, the university has applied for 4,219 international and domestic patents, with 2,026 patents granted. In 2021, the university published 2,794 papers in SCIE/SSCI and CSSCI. In the same year, Guangzhou University's total research funding reached 1.123 billion yuan.