Recently, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, the world's leading higher education think-tank, released the 2025 (15^th edition) of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, providing an independent comparative analysis of the performance of over 1,700 universities across 100 countries and regions in 55 academic disciplines and 5 broad faculty areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. Chinese mainland universities secured third place globally with an impressive 1,230 ranked disciplines. Among these, Guangdong University of Technology (GDUT) achieved rankings in 4 key disciplines: Materials Science (401-550), Environmental Science (451-500), Mathematics (451-500), and Computer Science & Information Systems (751-850).

Mathematics Discipline of GDUT ranked in the 451-500 of the QS

Links: QSChina | Worldwide university rankings, guides & events

Introduction to Disciplines and Research at the School

Recently, the School of Mathematics and Statistics achieved several key milestones in its academic development:

• In September 2003, it was granted a master's program in Applied Mathematics (a secondary discipline).

• In September 2010, it obtained a first-level discipline master's program in Mathematics.

• In December 2012, Applied Mathematics was recognized as a Key Characteristic Discipline of Guangdong Province.

• In February 2021, Information and Computing Science was approved as a National First-Class Undergraduate Program.

• In March 2022, the school established its own doctoral program in Information Processing and Optimization Computing (a secondary discipline).

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In the future, our School will align with Guangdong University of Technology's "1+2+3" Disciplinary Climbing and Support Initiative, leveraging our strategic location in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to cultivate highly competent, innovative, and interdisciplinary talents in mathematics and statistics.