National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology was founded on August1, 1974, as the National Taiwan Institute of Technology (NTIT). It was the first higher education institution of its kind within our nation’s technical and vocational education system. By extending this system to the highest level, this new school was intended to meet the need created by our rapid economic and industrial development for highly trained bachelor’s degree-level engineers and managers. In 1979 and 1982, NTIT added master’s and doctoral programs, respectively.

On August 1, 1997, NTIT was upgraded to university status and changed its name to the “National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,” also known as “Taiwan Tech.” At that time, the school reorganized itself into the five colleges. After thirty years of growth and evolution, currently, Taiwan Tech is comprise of seven colleges, including engineering, electrical and computer engineering, management, design, liberal arts and social sciences, applied science, and intellectual property studies.

Taiwan Tech has five campuses: the main Taipei campus and branch campuses at Tu-Cheng, Keelung, Gong-Guan and Chupei, with a combined total area of 29.44 hectares. The main campus, situated in a district of Taipei with convenient transportation and beautiful surroundings, covers an area of about 10 hectares. Current enrollment includes 5,605 undergraduates and 4,902 graduate students with 415 full-time faculties.

Our vision is to build Taiwan Tech into an international applied research university producing high-tech and management personnel with the ability to compete on a global level, thus supporting the future growth of our nation and society.

Our overall goals are to employ multifaceted excellence, innovative expertise, technology integration, and holistic education on the platforms of intelligent green building technology and creative design while recruiting internationally-renowned professors to help us achieve cutting-edge breakthroughs in all aspects of our teaching and research. This will inspire the development of the entire university, neighboring academic and research institutions, and local industry in the upgrading of our national ability to compete on a global stage. After many years of making significant contributions to Taiwan's economic growth through our training of managers and engineers and research cooperation with local industry, Taiwan Tech has turned its focus to the world stage, pursuing programs of internationalization that reach into every area of campus life. These efforts of our departments and research centers are supported by the various administrative and service offices of the university, along with our newest top-level administrative unit, the Office of International Affairs. Because of Taiwan Tech’s original and very successful mission of support for the local economy, we were later than many other Taiwan universities in beginning our internationalization efforts, but as a result of our usual intense dedication to substance and quality, we now stand proudly with our peers among the Taiwan Top University Grant recipients on the global stage, confident of the significant contributions that we will strive to make to the future of Taiwan and the world.