广东药科大学是全国三所药科大学之一，是华南地区最早开办药学系列专业的高等学府。现开设49个本科专业，是全国药学类专业最齐全的高校之一。学校拥有21个国家级、省级一流本科专业建设点，42门国家级、省级一流本科课程，20门省级研究生示范课程和21个省级研究生联合培养基地，以及1个国家级实验教学示范中心，1个国家级研究生联合培养基地。2022年增列为博士学位授予单位。现有教职工1849人，其中专任教师1522人、研究生导师1173人。拥有两院院士有效候选人、全国模范教师、国务院特殊津贴专家、岐黄工程首席科学家、国家优青等163人，省级高层次研究团队16个。
广东药科大学建有省部级重点学科7个，拥有中西医结合一级学科博士学位授权点，5个一级学科硕士学位授权点、7个硕士专业学位授权点。药学在全国第四轮学科评估中居并列第21位；临床医学、化学、药理学与毒理学、农业科学先后进入ESI全球前1%；中西医结合2021年软科排名居全国第4。建有国家和省部级以上科研平台54个，形成较为完备的化学药、生物药和中药“三大药”及医药一体的研发创新体系。先后与20多个国家和地区的50多所高等院校、科研机构建立了合作与交流关系。牵头成立粤港澳医药产业协同创新联盟、中国整合药学联盟。
Guangdong Pharmaceutical University (GDPU) is one of three pharmaceutical universities in China. It was the first institution of higher education specializing in pharmaceutical studies to be opened in South China. Offering 49 undergraduate majors, GDPU has developed to be one of the most comprehensive range of pharmacy concentrations of higher education institutions in China. GDPU has 21 national/provincial level first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 42 national/provincial level first-class undergraduate courses, 20 provincial level graduate demonstration courses, 21 provincial level graduate joint training bases, 1 national level graduate demonstration center and 1 national level graduate joint training base. GDPU boasts a teaching faculty of 1849, with 1522 dedicated teachers, and 1173 faculty are qualified to supervise doctoral and masters' dissertations. With these are allied 163 Provincially Exceptional Teachers, including those holding the distinctions of Doubly Engaged Academicians, National Model Teachers, State Council Special Allowance Experts, National Outstanding Youth, et al., and 16 provincial-level high priority research groups.
GDPU has seven provincial and ministerial key disciplines, the doctorate discipline of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, five master's disciplines, and seven master's professional disciplines. Pharmaceutical Discipline ranks the 21st in the fourth-round national discipline evaluation; Clinical medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, and agricultural science have successively joined the list of the top 1% of ESI ranking worldwide. The discipline of Integration of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine ranked the fourth in China's soft science (China's Best Discipline Ranking) in 2021. There are 54 research platforms at both the national and provincial levels, forming a comprehensive ecosystem for innovative research on the three key pharmaceutical sciences, namely, medicinal chemistry, biopharmaceuticals, and traditional Chinese medicine. GDPU has established cooperative relationships and exchanges with over 50 institutions of higher education and research facilities in over 20 countries across five continents and leaded to set up the Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Alliance for Innovation and the Holistic Integrative Pharmacy Alliance of China.
