ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1974, National Yang-Ming University, formerly known as National Yang-Ming College of Medicine, has been adhering to the school motto of “benevolent mind and art, putting knowledge into practice” while training excellent humane doctors to provide service by solving medical problems in remote and rural areas. As the first medicine-orientated university in Taiwan, it has been awarded in the Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities for results in two of their top research fields of Genetics and Brain Research. The university prides itself on educating students through problem-based learning in order to cultivate and develop motivation for self-learning that is vital for jobs within medicine. Yang-Ming was named after the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming. It was merged with National Chiao Tung University into the newly formed National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on 1 February 2021.
National Yang-Ming University (NYMU) is a research university with various campuses in Shipai, Beitou District, Taipei, and Taiwan. NYMU has six schools and five of those are related to medical and life sciences. NYMU is located on the hillside of Qilian, northwest of the Taipei Basin, surrounded by plants, trees and an unfaulted landscape. As the university sits on a hillside, a shuttle bus runs regularly between our campus and station to ensure students can get around.
The campus offers students a library, dormitories, medical laboratories, and activity and sports centre which offers a gymnasium, a hilltop stadium, a hillside stadium, a surface stadium and a swimming pool. Within the gymnasium are tennis and volleyball court, an aerobics room, a table tennis room, a weight-training room, and a cardiopulmonary room, alongside a 400m track field, a basketball court, a tennis court, and a volleyball court.
The institution has about 70 sister universities worldwide, establishing strong bonds to other successful institutions across the world.
The University now is devoted to excel in the field of biomedical research, and to promote intercollegiate and international collaboration. In the 2010 QS Asian Universities Rankings, Yang Ming University was placed 4th among universities in Taiwan and 2nd in the field of Life Science & Biomedicine. The Taipei Veterans General Hospital serves as the teaching hospital for medical and paramedical students. NYMU also established 15 research centers with a wide spectrum of emphases including Genomic Medicine, Brain Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging, Biophoptonics, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, AIDS, Community Medicine, and Community Nursing. In 2010, the Rema Lapouse Award was given to the President Liang Kung-Yee.Graduates have penetrated all corners of Taiwan and have become pioneers in basic healthcare services. Notable alumni include Shu-Ti Chiou, a physician who holds major executive positions in international organisations, Hsu Chia-ching, former veteran member of the Taipei City council and Shiu Ming-neng, a physician and a vice-minister of health and welfare.
SUBJECT TAUGHTS
- Art & Humanities
- History, Philosophy & Theology
- Art, Performing Arts & Design
- Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health
- Medicine & Dentistry
- Other Health
- Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Engineering & Technology
- General Engineering
- Life Sciences
- Biological Sciences
For more info, kindly visit National Yang-Ming University (ym.edu.tw)
Sources : National Yang-Ming University – Wikipedia
National Yang-Ming University | World University Rankings | THE (timeshighereducation.com)
