Foshan University (merger between its predecessor and Foshan Agriculture & Animal Husbandry College) is a designated full-time comprehensive university under the ratification of the State Education Ministry in 1995. In 2002, Foshan University passed the national teaching assessment for bachelor's degree program. After merging with Foshan Medical College and Foshan College of Education in 2005, Foshan University has currently four campuses including home campus, Northern campus, Hebin Road campus, and Tongji West campus, covering a land area of 2,210.7 acres, with a total construction area of 345,400 square meters.
There are ten schools across campuses: Literature & Art School, Law & Politics School, Science School, Mechatronics & Information Engineering School, Environment & Civil Engineering School, Life Science School, Business School, Medical School, Education Science School,faculty of Physical Education. At present, the University has been developing into a well-structured, multidisciplinary university with a full set of specialties.
Currently, 46 bachelor's degree programs and 7 three-year (post-secondary) diploma programs are offered to 11,839 full-time students (9362 undergraduates, 1535 junior college students) and 8,011 continuing education students. 1,490 staff work for the University, of which 824 are teaching faculties (516 with senior professional titles, of which 112 are Professors, 145 PhD holders, 408 Master's Degree holders, and over 78 teachers having overseas education and/or working experience). The University also invites and employs foreign experts and visiting professors. The world well-known scientists such as Dr. Yang Zhenning, Dr. Samuel C. C. Ting, and many others are honorary professors of Foshan University.
The University Library holds about 1,495,000 volumes of books with over 3,101 kinds of journals and over 215 newspapers, over 10,000 e-books, 12 Chinese and foreign language databases. The University's own publication is Journal of Foshan University (social science version and natural science version). The fixed assets of integrated teaching & research equipments value RMB 118,240,000 . The University owns modern teaching and research facilities such as Information & Teaching Technology Centre, experiment centers, farms, experimental orchards, Animal Clinic, hatcheries, Affiliated Stomatologic Hospital, and many other well-equipped laboratories. A duck research and development branch of the National Livestock Technology Research Centre is also located at Foshan University.