National Cheng Kung University
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) is located in Taiwan's ancient city of Tainan. It is a university with a pragmatic academic climate, strong research capabilities, an international learning environment, multidisciplinary innovation, excellent academia-industry collaboration, and a pragmatic attitude to issues. It is a school that actively exerts a beneficial influence on a variety of endeavors while also embracing the world.
The practical academic climate at NCKU is conducive to the unwavering quest of knowledge and truth. NCKU has witnessed considerable transformation and expansion since its inception. Engineering, Management, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Medicine, Social Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Planning and Design, Bioscience and Biotechnology, and Computing are the school's current colleges. There are 43 undergraduate programs, 36 autonomous graduate institutes, and nine degree programs within these colleges. The colleges are located on the main campus, while the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory, and the NCKU Hospital Dou-Liou Branch are located on the Kuei-Jen, An-Nan, and Dou-Liu campuses, respectively. These characteristics combine to make NCKU one of the region's most academically complete research universities.
NCKU is a university that encourages high self-expectations for the country's future and social responsibility. NCKU students now come from more than 80 different nations. NCKU currently has over 22,000 students enrolled, with over 190,000 alumni worldwide. NCKU believes that a university should foster society's culture and all people while also serving as a vital component of individual enlightenment. NCKU emphasizes educational innovation, research excellence, and social responsibility as the primary axes for establishing a pioneering university with a goal for excellence in teaching, research, and social responsibility.
NCKU prioritizes talent development. It seeks to provide students with language competence, understanding of the world's numerous cultural values, flexibility to adapt to any situation, and familiarity with the use of information technology, in addition to strengthening students' domain knowledge. All of these skills are required for world-class, globally mobile personnel. According to Forbes' Global 2000 Leading Companies for 2017, NCKU placed 48th among universities worldwide in terms of the number of alumni who went on to become CEOs.
In terms of performance in industry-academia partnership, NCKU has always been a national leader. NCKU received NT$4.79 billion (£100 million) in funding from such collaboration in 2019. NCKU has also outperformed in terms of income from intellectual property rights, as well as the number of patents and utility models. NCKU's outcomes from collaboration with enterprise are also among the best in the country. NCKU was placed 16th in the world in terms of industry income per staff member in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. From 2012 to 2019, it was ranked among the top 100 institutions in the world in terms of the number of US patents granted. Since 2009, the amount of technology transfer signing fees collected each year has topped NT$100 million for 11 years in a row. NCKU is the only university in the country to achieve such results.
NCKU maintains constant contact with societal trends and changes through effective interdisciplinary integration and outstanding academic success, as well as through its research centers. It plays a critical role in industry and public policy, social engagement, and sustainable innovation, and its accomplishments in these areas are well acknowledged around the world.
To summarize, these characteristics make the university one of the best universities for research in Taiwan.
Address: No. 1號, Dasyue Rd, East District, Tainan City, Taiwan 701
Website: web.ncku.edu.tw
