Founded in 2001, Lingnan Institute of Technology is a private college which has been approved by the Education Committee of Guangdong Municipal Government to offer associate college degree programs to students from within and outside Guangdong province.

Lingnan campus is conveniently located at Guangzhou City of Science, west to the national software industry base camp, Guangzhou Tianhe Software Park, north to Olympic Sports Center of Guangzhou and World Grand View. The campus is divided to three sites – east campus, south campus and Liberal Arts College. Covering an area of 696 Chinese acres, Lingnan has 220,000 square meters of building structure, 12,000 fulltime enrollments and an alumni population of 10,000.

Lingnan provides the students with the first-class facility, which includes 88 multimedia classrooms, 123 laboratories and practical training sites, a modern library covers an area of 18200 square meters and a volume of 610,000 hard copy books and an access to 310,000 digital books. The IT infrastructure of Lingnan has reached the national level II requirement for all universities. Other than teaching buildings, Lingnan also has excellent sports facilities that consist of a national level stadium, an outward-bound training base, and a standard track and field site and soccer field.??

Lingnan offers 33 major studies by 10 schools - Business School, School of Information Science, School of Modern Manufacturing, School of Arts and Media, School of Foreign Studies and Trades, School of Medicine and Health, School of Digital Education, School of Continuing Education, Center for Political Science Education, and International Education Center.?