Sun Yat-sen University is a major Chinese public research university located in Guangdong, People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1924 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary and the founding father of the Republic of China. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Class A Double First Class University. The school's main campus, commonly referred to as the South Campus, is located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, inheriting the campus of the former Lingnan University. Three of its four campuses are also located in Guangzhou, including the new East Campus in the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, and the medically oriented North Campus. The school also has a new campus in Zhuhai, which is the largest among the four campuses. Sun Yat-sen University provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, technology, medical science, pharmacology and managerial science.