1. ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology abbreviated as NTUST or Taiwan Tech, is a public technological university located in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan Tech was established in 1974 which formerly called National Taiwan Institute of Technology, as the first and the leading higher education institution of its kind within Taiwan’s technical and vocational education system.
Taiwan Tech enrolled 5,645 undergraduates and 4,744 graduate students, and employed 414 full-time faculties and about 318 staff members in 2013. The university’s 14 departments and 24 graduate programs are divided into the following 7 colleges, College of Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Management, College of Design, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, College of Intellectual Property Studies, and Honors College. Taiwan Tech has five campuses. The main campus, Gongguan Campus, is located in the Daan District of Taipei City, and contains most teaching and researching buildings, library, athletic facilities, and the central administrative offices. The Gongguan Campus, located at 43 Keelung Rd, Sec. 4, situated in southern Taipei, covers an area of about 10 hectares. It is about a 10-minute walk away from the Gongguan MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) Station. The other four campuses are:

• Tucheng Campus. Located in Tucheng District, New Taipei City.
• Keelung Campus. Located in Keelung.
• New Gongguan Campus. Located in the Daan Districtof Taipei City, near the main campus.
• Zhubei Campus. Located in Zhubei, Hsinchu County.

1. UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

Nation Taiwan University of Science and Technology is ranked 353 among world universities in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2013 (subject ranking: Engineering/Technology: 143. The School of Management of Taiwan Tech is ranked 5th (Excellent Level) among the universities in Taiwan by eduniversal.com 2009. The university is also ranked 54 among Asian universities (subject ranking: Engineering/Technology: 33) in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2013. NTUST Taiwan was also ranked as Asia’s 10th best institute in science and technology.
iF Design Awards (Germany) – Famously known as the “Oscars of Design”, with over 10,000 pieces of work from more than 50 countries enter every year. In Taiwan, it is a high-quality proof of international competitiveness within design colleges and universities. Since 2011, the Department of Industrial and Communication Design of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology has been ranked No. 1 by iF Design Award, four years in a row. The department alone had 14 pieces of Top 100 artwork in 2011, leading Taiwan Tech the title of ‘single university earning the most awards’ in iF record. To date, the department had nearly 40 pieces of artwork in the world’s Top 100 record, including 2 in the Top 10 – Balance Stick (2011) and Size Zero Models (2013), alongside 2000 and 3000 Euros cash prize respectively.
The university also received the Audience Award at the International Short Film Festival ContraVision in Berlin, Germany, and the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival Award. A total of 702 research papers by Taiwan Tech faculty were published in both SCI and SSCI journals in 2009, subject ranked top 300 in the world and 7th in Taiwan nationally.
 
Domestically, Taiwan Tech is one of 11 top universities in Taiwan sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education’s (MOE) “Building Top Universities and Elite Research Centers Development Plan”. Taiwan Tech is ranked as the best technical university in Taiwan, 4th in the Industry-University Cooperative Research Awards, and most graduate programs are ranked top 5th to 6th among national universities by the MOE”.
Taiwan Tech is one of the top five Best Technology Licensing Centers declared by the National Science Council (NSC), 3rd in overall amount of NSC Technology Licensing funding, and 1st in the Technology Licensing individually allocated founding by the NSC. From 1994 to date, a total of 33 faculties received the Distinguished Research Awards from the NSC, ranked 6th in Taiwan. The university was the only university awarded the National Invention and Creation Award by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2007.
The university is ranked 6th most favorite university of the enterprises in Taiwan, 1st among the technical education system, according to the survey by 104 Job Bank and Global Views Monthly Magazine. Taiwan Tech’s graduates are chosen by Cheer’s Magazine as among the industry’s top six most-preferred students.

1. DEGREES

Taiwan Tech’s undergraduate division has two-year, four-year and continuing education programs. The two-year upper division program accepts graduates of technical junior colleges, while the four-year program seeks applicants from general and technical senior high schools. Continuing education programs are offered in the evenings by the Departments of Industrial Management, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Construction Engineering, and Applied Foreign Languages to those who are currently employed. Students who successfully complete the requirements in any of these three undergraduate programs are awarded a bachelor’s degree.
The Master’s degree programs began accepting students in 1979. Those with a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in related fields from schools here or abroad are eligible to take the entrance exam. In addition, to encourage those already long in the workforce to advance their education, certain departments in the university also offer continuing education Master’s programs in the evening. Students in these graduate programs who have successfully completed all the requirements, including a thesis and defense, are awarded a Master’s degree.
The doctoral programs seek for holders of a Master’s degree or its equivalent from schools here or abroad. From the year 2001, certain departments also began to accept students into doctoral programs in the continuing education division. Students in any of these doctoral programs, who have successfully completed all the requirements, including a thesis and defense, are awarded the doctorate.
 

1. COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENTS

The University has 14 departments and 24 graduate programs which organized into 7 colleges, as follows:

• College of Engineering
  • Graduate Institute of Automation and Control
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  • Department of Construction Engineering
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
• College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Department of Electronic Engineering
  • Department of Electrical Engineering
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
  • Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering
• School of Management
  • Graduate Institute of Management
  • Graduate Institute of Technology Management
  • EDBA/EMBA
  • Department of Industrial Management
  • Department of Business Administration
  • Graduate Institute of Finance
  • Department of Information Management
  • MBA
  • Graduate Institute of Technology Management
  • Management Undergraduate Honors Program
• College of Design
  • Graduate Institute of Design
  • Department of Architecture
  • Department of Industrial and Commercial Design
• College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
  • Graduate Institute of Digital Learning and Education
  • Department of Applied Foreign Languages
  • Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Teacher Education Center
• College of Applied Sciences
  • Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology
  • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering
  • Graduate Institute of Color and Illumination Technology
  • Jing Cheng Department(University Inter-discipline Department)
• College of Intellectual Property Studies
  • Graduate Institute of Patent

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