Tzu Chi University

Excellence in Research and Practice, Integration of Science and Humanities, and Leadership in Global Competitiveness.

— In the 2022 THE Impact Ranking, our university ranked 12th globally for SDG3, ranking 201-300 overall, and 6th in Taiwan.

— In the 2024 Global Views Magazine “Taiwan’s Best University Ranking,” we ranked 6th among medical universities and 14th among private universities.

In August 2024, Tzu Chi University and Tzu Chi University of Science and Technology merged. The new Tzu Chi University (TCU) will maintain a balanced development of vocational and higher education. Through the integration of departments, it will break the traditional learning boundaries between vocational and higher education, integrate the advantages of both, and become a Tzu Chi University that combines teaching and research with practice, integrates science and humanities, and possesses international competitiveness.

Pioneering Diverse Medical Anatomy Education and Silent Mentor Humanistic Ceremonies; Successfully Developing COVID-19 Dual-Antibody Detection Kits

Our university upholds the concepts of “gratitude, respect, and love,” and enlivens anatomical teaching with a humanistic approach, developing an altruistic paradigm of teaching based on “silent mentors.” We not only implement professionalism, but also cultivate students’ empathy for treating patients like family in the future. We use silent mentors to train clinical surgical skills, implement clinical operational capabilities, and supplement them with “endoscopic instrument training” provided after class, laying a solid foundation of ability and confidence to become excellent doctors.

In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic became a global pandemic, TCU, Academia Sinica, and Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital jointly developed the “COVID-19 dual-antibody detection reagent” in just two months. Starting in June, they successively applied for certification from the European Union, the US FDA, Indonesia, and other countries. At the end of July, they obtained import permission from the Indonesian Ministry of Health and are expected to export 30,000 doses to Indonesia. In addition, Tzu Chi University’s sister school, SRM University in India, is currently assisting in applying for Indian import permits, hoping to send the reagents to where they are needed as soon as possible.

The World’s First to Establish “Simulation-based Medical Humanities Course”

Independently developed humanistic integration courses and established the only “simulated medical center” in Taiwan, with a simulated operating room with eight teaching operating tables. The simulated surgery course combines TCU’s “gratitude, respect, and love” with a unique humanistic ceremony. To date, well-known universities and scholars from various fields around the world have visited, including: Indonesia, Queensland, National University of Singapore, University of Malaya and University of Science, Malaysia, St. Thomas University of the Philippines, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University of Guangzhou, Lanzhou University, Peking University, Nanjing Medical University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oxford University, UCLA, UCSD, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Columbia, Stanford and other well-known universities.

On April 23, 2009, the world-class media outlet The Wall Street Journal featured a front-page report by Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting. This coverage marked a historic first for Taiwan’s medical education and stands as a proud achievement for the global Chinese community in the field of medical academia.

Taiwan’s only “Triple-Track Mentorship” school

Our university pioneered the ‘Triple-Track Mentorship System’ for student guidance. In addition to traditional academic faculty mentors and professional counseling centers, we have established the Tzu Cheng and Yi Teh Association to inspire students’ conscience and innate potential. This initiative aims to cultivate a humanistic spirit rooted in respect for life and social responsibility. The association is composed of dedicated Tzu Chi volunteers. For every 10 to 15 students, one ‘Tzu Cheng Father’ and two ‘Yi Teh Mothers’ are assigned. Once a month, these mentors travel from across the country to return to campus for ‘Family Gatherings.’ Furthermore, mentors from each family take turns returning to campus on weekdays to remain on standby for student support.

Using personal example to cultivate students’ life etiquette and moral ethics, accompany and care for students’ psychological and emotional problems, and play the role of caregiver, listener, and counselor. In addition to life counseling during school, our school also combines the social achievements and expertise of the Tzu Yi Hui to plan the “Tzu Yi Mentor Academy (Tzu Cheng Yi De Industry Mentor)” program to guide students in preparing before entering the workplace, provide students with learning business practices according to different professional fields, and divide them into seven groups: international development, social welfare, ecological field, biotechnology field, public service system, business management, and art aesthetics, etc., to organize exclusive courses and corporate experience camps to guide students’ career development and assist students in connecting with the workplace after graduation.

Diverse and Frequent International Exchange Activities

Over the years, we have actively expanded international academic exchanges, established sister schools, overseas volunteer services, exchange students, international scholar visits and appointments, and other activities. We cooperate with the branch offices or liaison offices established by the “Tzu Chi Foundation” in five continents and 66 countries and regions around the world to provide our teachers and students with rich resources and provide more opportunities for international exchange.

Our school dormitory

Guaranteed accommodation for international students.

Priority is given to international students who stay in school during winter and summer vacations and the Spring Festival.