廣東培正學院創建于1993年，原名培正商學院，在梁尚立、何厚煌、何子棟、陳國強、陳湖昌以及何善衡基金會、史帶教育基金等熱心教育人士、社會力量的幫助下，籌集辦學資金8100多萬元而創辦。2005年經教育部批準升為本科院校，更名為廣東培正學院，2009年學校通過學士學位授予權評估，2012年通過教育部本科教學工作合格評估。
學校的建設和發展，得到了各方面的關心和支持。黨和國家領導人葉選平、鄒家華、王光英、王兆國等，教育部原領導周濟、韋鈺等，廣東省老領導任仲夷、梁靈光等或到校視察，或題詞勉勵。
學校始終堅持“公益辦學、規范辦學、誠信辦學、特色辦學、質量至上”的辦學原則。學校先后被授予“全國民辦高校先進單位”、“全國民辦百強學�！�、“廣東民辦學校競爭力十強”、“廣東省十佳民辦高�！�、“廣東省‘兩新’百強黨組織”等榮譽稱號。
經過多年的建設，學校固定資產達7.2億元，擁有設備先進的各類專業實驗室75個，校外實踐基地40余個。圖書館館藏紙質圖書150余萬冊，電子圖書54萬冊，擁有電子資源數據庫21種。學校師資力量雄厚，已建立了一支專職和兼職相結合、職稱與學術水平較高、相對穩定的教師隊伍，涵蓋海內外多領域學科精英，英語外籍教師人數位居全省高校之首。
學校自創辦以來，尤其是在2005年升為本科院校以后，根據廣東地區對人才培養的特殊需求，努力打造本科應用型人才培養特色，在培養“具有國際視野的外向型人才”與“創新創業人才”上形成自己的鮮明風格，人才培養特色初顯成效。
目前學校在校生人數一萬三千多人，共設十三個教學院系，擁有25個本科專業，形成以管理學、經濟學為主，文學、法學、藝術和工學、理學多學科交融滲透、協調發展的學科專業建設格局。
學校黨委全面加強黨的建設，充分發揮政治核心作用，領導學校的黨建工作、思想政治工作和學生工作，參與學校的重大事項的決策，充分發揮黨組織在學校建設、改革、發展中的戰斗堡壘作用。
乘著改革開放的春風，沐浴著“十二五”建設高水平民辦大學的政策，面對新的發展機遇。全校師生秉持“培智、正德、尚行、立新”的校訓，為把學校早日建成特色鮮明高水平民辦大學而努力奮斗！
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.
