National Taiwan University | ntu ranking 2018
WidelyconsideredasTaiwan’smostprestigiousuniversity,theNationalTaiwanUniversityisnowaresearchuniversityhighlyrespectedacrosstheworld.Itshistorystretchesbackto1928whentheinstitutionwasfoundedastheTaihokuImperialUniversitybytheJapanesecolonialadministration.ItwaslaterhandedtothenationalistgovernmentofChinain1945afteritwonthewarofresistanceagainstJapan,leadingtoitsnewname,NationalTaiwanUniversity.Theuniversity,knownasNTU,nowhas11colleges,with54departmentsand103graduateinstitutes,fouruniversity-...
Widely considered as Taiwan’s most prestigious university, the National Taiwan University is now a research university highly respected across the world.
Its history stretches back to 1928 when the institution was founded as the Taihoku Imperial University by the Japanese colonial administration. It was later handed to the nationalist government of China in 1945 after it won the war of resistance against Japan, leading to its new name, National Taiwan University.
The university, known as NTU, now has 11 colleges, with 54 departments and 103 graduate institutes, four university-level research centres (population and gender studies, condensed matter sciences, biotechnology and biodiversity), with an overall student population of around 33,000, including 17,000 undergraduates and 15,000 graduate students.
It has five campuses in the Tapei area and two further afield, though its main campus is situated in the heart of Taipei.
Among its notable alumni include ...