Southern Medical University (SMU) is the former First Military Medical University, was founded in October 1951 and notarized as one of the premier medical universitiesin 1978. Our university was handed over to the local government of Guangdong Province and meanwhile renamedas Southern Medial University, in line with the commandby the State Department and the Central Military Committee of PLA in August 2004. SMU has become one of the 8 prestigious universities authorized by the Ministry of Education to run the pilot 8-year medical education program. In 2008, the university was included in the Guangdong provincial 211 Project, one for key and priority colleges and universities. At present, SMU is the only medical university which ranks as one of the Ministry-Province Co-constructed Medical Universities as well as Provincial Prospective High-Level Universities in Guangdong Province.
SMU, located at the foot of the picturesque Baiyun Mountain in Guangzhou, has two campuses, the main campus and the Shunde campus, covering an area of nearly 1.68 million square meters, with a construction area of 0.845 million square meters.
The university has 19 schools with an enrollment of 20,483 degree candidates, including 5,564 postgraduates, 13,588 undergraduates and 1,020 international students. Our University has 13 affiliated hospitals with nearly 12,600 hospital beds in total. It has also established long-term cooperation in clinical teaching with more than 100 excellent hospitals and institutes around the world.
The university covers 6 disciplines including medicine, science, engineering, management, law and education. 7 academic disciplines including clinical medicine, Pharmacology and toxicologydicine, Molecular biology and genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience and Behavioristics, Immunology and Chemistry listed as the world's top 1% .
In 2019 THE World University Rankings, SMU ranked around between 43rd and 64th among Chinese mainland universities. In the 2019 “Medical Circle” List of the Best Medical Colleges in China, SMU ranked the 6th among all universities in China (including comprehensive universities) and the 1st among independent medical universities.
