About Sun Yat-sen University
Built on a solid multidisciplinary foundation of humanities, social sciences, natural
sciences, medical sciences, and engineering, Sun Yat-sen University is propelled forward by
the continuous pursuit of academic innovation. The University is equipped with a globally
aware outlook, and has dedicated itself to being an institution that is “comprehensive,
innovative, and open”. The goal of talent cultivation is to nurture students who have both
ability and moral integrity, able to cultivate charisma and eager to serve their country.
The guiding philosophy is to be oriented toward academic frontiers, oriented toward national
major strategic needs, and oriented toward national and regional economic and social
development. The basic approach is through the construction of big research teams, big
platforms and big projects. The University is pushing forward the transformation from
external development to internal development, the transformation from routine development to
active development, and the transformation from advantages in humanities, social sciences,
natural sciences and medical sciences to a university where humanities, social sciences,
natural sciences, medical sciences and engineering can integrate and develop while retaining
their distinctive characteristics. Now, standing at a new starting point, Sun Yat-sen
University strives to foster an academic environment where all disciplines develop
distinctively yet systematically, thus blossoming into an institution with influence and
impact on a global scale.
Outstanding disciplinary influence: Eighteen disciplines at SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY rank
among the world’s top one percent according to ESI 2016, tied for second most among mainland
Chinese universities; among these disciplines, eleven ranks in the world’s top 0.5 percent,
and two ranks in the world’s top 0.1 percent.
First-rate faculty team: SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY counts twenty members of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 42 distinguished professors of the Chang
Jiang Scholars Program, and 79 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished
Young Scholars among its faculty. The number of high-level talents ranks in the top among
Chinese universities.