Guangzhou Medical University was selected as the “Double First-Class Initiative” list in 2022. It currently has 1 "Double First-Class" discipline, 1 national key discipline, 1 key discipline of the national administration of traditional Chinese medicine, 9 Guangdong provincial key disciplines, 5 Guangdong provincial key medical disciplines, 2 key disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine bureau of Guangdong province, 14 key disciplines of Guangzhou municipal education bureau, and 15 Guangzhou municipal key medical disciplines. According to the latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI) , GMU ranking 73th among domestic universities and 11 disciplines are among the global top 1%, and the Clinical is among the global top 1‰.