广东培正学院创建于1993年，原名培正商学院，在梁尚立、何厚煌、何子栋、陈国强、陈湖昌以及何善衡基金会、史带教育基金等热心教育人士、社会力量的帮助下，筹集办学资金8100多万元而创办。2005年经教育部批准升为本科院校，更名为广东培正学院，2009年学校通过学士学位授予权评估，2012年通过教育部本科教学工作合格评估。
学校的建设和发展，得到了各方面的关心和支持。党和国家领导人叶选平、邹家华、王光英、王兆国等，教育部原领导周济、韦钰等，广东省老领导任仲夷、梁灵光等或到校视察，或题词勉励。
学校始终坚持“公益办学、规范办学、诚信办学、特色办学、质量至上”的办学原则。学校先后被授予“全国民办高校先进单位”、“全国民办百强学校”、“广东民办学校竞争力十强”、“广东省十佳民办高校”、“广东省‘两新’百强党组织”等荣誉称号。
经过多年的建设，学校固定资产达7.2亿元，拥有设备先进的各类专业实验室75个，校外实践基地40余个。图书馆馆藏纸质图书150余万册，电子图书54万册，拥有电子资源数据库21种。学校师资力量雄厚，已建立了一支专职和兼职相结合、职称与学术水平较高、相对稳定的教师队伍，涵盖海内外多领域学科精英，英语外籍教师人数位居全省高校之首。
学校自创办以来，尤其是在2005年升为本科院校以后，根据广东地区对人才培养的特殊需求，努力打造本科应用型人才培养特色，在培养“具有国际视野的外向型人才”与“创新创业人才”上形成自己的鲜明风格，人才培养特色初显成效。
目前学校在校生人数一万三千多人，共设十三个教学院系，拥有25个本科专业，形成以管理学、经济学为主，文学、法学、艺术和工学、理学多学科交融渗透、协调发展的学科专业建设格局。
学校党委全面加强党的建设，充分发挥政治核心作用，领导学校的党建工作、思想政治工作和学生工作，参与学校的重大事项的决策，充分发挥党组织在学校建设、改革、发展中的战斗堡垒作用。
乘着改革开放的春风，沐浴着“十二五”建设高水平民办大学的政策，面对新的发展机遇。全校师生秉持“培智、正德、尚行、立新”的校训，为把学校早日建成特色鲜明高水平民办大学而努力奋斗！
Guangdong Peizheng College(GPZC, former Private Peizheng Commercial College)is a nonprofit private full-time college that offers four-year degree programs and concurrently three-year diploma programs. Degrees and diplomas granted are accredited by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the Chinese government.
In 1993, the college was founded.
In 1996, the college was officially sanctioned by the Guangdong Province Government.
In March 1998, the college was registered in MOE.
In March 2005, the college was upgraded to degree-granting college by MOE.
In 2009, the college was conferred “the License of the People's Republic of China for Running a Private School”. GPZC became the first private college to gain such license in Guangdong province.
Awards and Honors:
In 1999, “Advanced Unit of National Private Colleges” awarded by National Committee of Private Education.
In 2005, “Advanced Private Education Institution of Guangdong Province” awarded by Education Department of Guangdong province.
In 2007, “A Top-Ten Education Institution in Student Employability of Guangdong Province”.
In 2008, “A Top Ten Private College of Guangdong Province”.
In 2010, won the prize as “The National Advanced Private Education Institution”.
In 2012, Passed the evaluation from MOE for newly established degree-granting university.
[Guidelines for College Management]
Abiding by The Law for Facilitating Non-government Funded Education, and following the nature law of higher education, GPZC set its education principles as: Public Interest (benefit) and nonprofit principle, Standard Education principle, Credibility and Integrity principle, Offering Students Education with Characteristics principle, Guarantee High Quality principle. GPZC is exploring a new model in undergraduate education in a non-government funded area, trying to build the college into an applied undergraduate college with strong influence inside and outside Guangdong province.
[Philosophy of Schooling]
GPZC sticks to the principles of:
(1) honestly running a standard nonprofit institution for the public with its distinguished features and supreme quality
(2) listing teaching being the first priority; regarding teachers as the foundation in running the school and locating students as the center in teaching
(3) internal strength building and developing with own distinguishing features
(4) leadership under the Board of Trustees, responsibility on the president of the college, pursuing of studies by professors and managing the college in a democratic environment.
[Type of school]
Teaching Oriented Institution
[Educational Level]
Mainly carrying out undergraduate education and concurrently handling three-year diploma education.
[Subject Construction]
The college stresses on Management and Economics related majors maintaining a harmonious development among such subjects as management, economics, arts, law and engineering.
[Education Objectives]
Producing high quality talents with solid practical knowledge and skills to meet the needs of society.
[Serving Orientation]
Producing quality personnel for grass-root units in Guangdong province and southern China area.
[Development Objectives]
GPZC is trying to pass the quality evaluation by MOE by its 20th anniversary, in 2013; By 2015, GPZC’s teaching quality will be further improved and lay solid foundation for master education, building GPZC into a high-level private college.
The college is located by Jiyi Reservoir in Chini town of Huadu District of Guangzhou city, Guangdong province. The campus covers an area of more than 165 acres surrounded by green hills and clear waters. After 19 years' construction, the total assets of the college are more than RMB 800 million Yuan. The college has various specialized laboratories with advanced equipments. There are 1.49 million volumes of hard copy books, 540 thousand e-books and 1,170 kinds of periodicals.
The college is abundant in teaching faculty resources and has a stable teaching team which consists of full time and part-time teachers who have professional titles for higher education. There are 621 teaching faculty, among which 33 of them are full professors, 64 of them are associate professors, and 382 have master's degrees. There are 60 foreign teachers in GPZC. The number of foreign English teachers ranks first place in Guangdong province higher education institutions
The college consists of 14 departments (or centers) and owns 19 bachelor's degree programs (there are directions in these programs) and 22 diploma programs; the disciplines covers six categories of the subjects: management, economics, law, science and engineering.
There is 13,674 students as of the autumn of 2012. With its educational reforms being deepened and quality of education being enhanced, GPZC graduates are greatly welcome by the society. Its employment rates from 2006 to 2011 respectively are 96.48%, 97.54%, 97.91%, 98.05%, 98.90% and 98.98%, which were ahead of all other colleges of the same kind in Guangdong province. The college successfully passed Evaluation for the right to grant Bachelor's Degrees in 2009. Starting from 2011 GPZC is approved to accept top-up students who have finished their diploma in junior colleges.
The college is now trying to initiate joint programs with foreign universities. GPZC welcomes foreign universities to discuss possible cooperative programs to train internationally accepted personnel.
