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Lingnan University (simplified Chinese: 岭南大学; traditional Chinese: 嶺南大學; pinyin: Lǐngnán Dàxué) was a private university from 1888 to 1952 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was established by a group of American missionaries in 1888 as the Canton Christian College ( 格致書院 ).
Many universities and colleges are located in major cities like Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong, hosts 83 institutions of higher education (excluding adult colleges), ranking 1st in South China region and 2nd (tie) nationwide after Beijing . [ 2 ]
It moved back to Canton in 1904. In 1953, Lingnan University was incorporated into Chung Shan University (now Sun Yat-sen University). In 1967, some members of the university who fled from China's Communist rule to Hong Kong founded the Lingnan College in Hong Kong to continue the spirit of the university.
The Kung Yee Medical School and Hospital in Guangzhou (then called Canton), China was a hospital and medical school founded in 1908 by a dozen Chinese citizens and led by American Dr. Paul Jerome Todd (1873-1939) [1] and opened in temporary site in 1909.
Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学; SYSU) is a public research university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial Government. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.
The list covers universities and colleges that were founded in the then British crown colony of Hong Kong and the Portuguese overseas province of Macau. It also covers universities and colleges that were founded in mainland China but were later moved to or reestablished in Taiwan.
Map showing locations of major universities in mainland China. As of September 2021, there were 3,012 colleges and universities, with over 40 million students enrolled in mainland China. [1] [2] [3] More than 40 million Chinese students graduated from university from 2016 to 2020. [4]
Its predecessor was the Boji Medical School, which was founded in 1866, it was the earliest Western medical school in mainland China. Sun Yat-sen studied medicine here in 1886. After several adjustments, the school developed into Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences.