School of Sciences

School of Sciences, South China University of Technology, is proud of its experienced and qualified faculty of 182 members, of whom 166 are full-duty teachers, including two academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, three "distinguished professors", five "distinguished young teachers", 17 tutors of Ph.D. students; 36 full professors, and 58e associate professors and equivalents; 83 faculty members hold the doctoral degree, taking up 50% of the total. The student population consists of 1260 full-time undergraduates, 296 postgraduates, 27 Ph.D. candidates.
 
Over the past 3 years, the School has undertaken 25 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and 12 by Guangdong province with a total funding of 14.3 million Yuan.
 
1194 research papers have been published over the past five years, of which 317 have been included in SCI (Science Citation Index), 112 in EI (Engineering Index), 85 in ISTP (Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings), and 541 in different core journals. 11 projects have obtained patent-licensing over the recent three years.
 
The school comprises two departments: the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Physics. The Department of Mathematics is subdivided into units for Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Information and Computational Science, Statistics and Financial Mathematics as well as College Mathematics Centre, and a Research Centre for Non-linear Science and Research Institute for Statistical Science.
 
Three undergraduate programs are provided—Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (a reputed program in Guangdong province), Information Management and Information System (a reputed program in Guangdong province) and Information and Computational Science; meanwhile, two postgraduate programs are administered—one for Ph.D. degree and one for Master degree in Applied Mathematics.
 
The Department of Physics is subdivided into units for Photoelectric Information Science and Engineering and Applied Physics, as well as a centre for Physical Experiment and a Centre for Teaching Practice of Electronic Processing, a Research Institute for Acoustics and a Research Institute for Condensed Matter Physics. At present, the department offers two study programs—Applied Physics and Optic Information Science and Technology and one level-1 discipline Master's degree program, recruiting students for study in Condensed Matter, Acoustics and Optics.