The bachelor program in clinical medicine in Shenzhen University (SZU) was approved by the Ministry of Education and the SZU Medical School was established in December 2008, which is the very first medical school in Shenzhen. Currently, Professor Baoguo Jiang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the Dean of the SZU Medical School. The scientific and medical excellence nationalwide in Medical School includes genome medicine, immunity, cancer research, ageing & metabolism, therapeutic lead compound discovery, AI imaging, medical equipment development, orthopedics, neurosurgery, burn surgery, and pain management.

SZU Medical School consists of nine schools: School of BasicMedical Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, Department of Family Medicine, International Cancer Center, and Medical Humanities Center. It has 4 affiliated hospitals and 13 teaching hospitals.

There are 6 Bachelor Programs: Clinical Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dental Medicine, and Preventive Medicine. There are 3 PhD Programs:  Biomedical Engineering, Biology and Basic Medical Sciences, and 3 Master's Programs: Biomedical Engineering, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Medicine. There are 5 professional Master's Programs in Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Medicine, Pharmaciutical Science, Public Health, and Dental Medicine. SZU Medical School has an enrollment of 4,553 full-time students, which include 2,496 undergraduates, 1,882 graduates, 115 Ph.D. students, and 60 international students. 

SZU Medical School has a total of 451 faculty members, including 232 full-time teaching and research staff including 6 Chair Professors, 25 Distinguished Professor, 34 professors, 74 associate professors/senior lecturers, 98 assistant professors/lecturers, and 85 postdoctoral researchers. Most of the full-time teaching and research staff have overseas study or working experience, 96.6% of them hold doctoral degrees. The excellent faculty members includes 25 national talent scholars (including 5 domestic and foreign academicians and 1 Nobel Laureate).

SZU Medical School has three national research platforms, one national research center, 12 research center in Guangdong Province, and 19 Shenzhen municipal research platforms (including one Nobel Prize laboratory,).

SZU Medical School has been awarded 2,472 funded research projects over 1.896 billion RMB, including 946 NSFC Grants. Our faculty has published a total of 10,648 papers in SCI indexed journals during 2017-2024, 1,063 of which are high-quality publications that are PNAS equivalent or above, 405 of which are in Nature, Science, Cell and their sub-journals. Clinical medicine is within top 2‰ ESI and Pharmacology & Toxicology, biology & biochemistry, and Agricultural Science is within top 5‰ ESI. Basic medical Sciences ranked 9th (within top 8%) and biomedical engineering ranked 12th among best majors ranking in China.

SZU Medical School actively promotes internationalization in  cooperation and exchanges, and has established collaboration and partnerships with high-profile medical schools and research institutions in USA, UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, Kazakhstan and other countries.

(Data updated in March, 2025)