National University of Kaohsiung

Featured Departments and Programs

Originality of the NUK Brand:

1. The first “Department of East Asian Languages and Literature” in Taiwan: It has three groups: Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese. It has a design that emphasizes both language and social science programs. Through the “Overseas Study Program,” students are selected to study at overseas sister schools for more than half a year, and further provides internship opportunities in domestic and foreign companies to cultivate international affairs professionals with practical experience.

2. The only “Law School” in Southern Taiwan: Including the Department of Financial and Economic Law, the Department of Law, and the Department of Political Science and Law, and provides doctoral degree courses; it deepens legal education, integrates finance and economics and political science, and cultivates students into professional legal talents with both theory and practice through cooperation with foreign universities and exchanges with the government and industry.

3. The first “Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering” in Taiwan to integrate civil and environmental engineering: It focuses on the development of technological disaster prevention, pollution control, environmental protection, green engineering, and systems engineering, and combines industry internships to cultivate students into engineers with a vision for sustainable development.

Featured Departments and Programs:

1. The “Department of Information Management” cultivates professional digital marketing talents with an international perspective and understanding and improvement of information management: Based on diverse information management, students are equipped with three major capabilities: information management, information technology, and application integration.

2. The first “Department of Asia-Pacific Industrial and Business Management” in Taiwan to focus on Asia-Pacific regional studies: In response to the needs of regional economic development and changes in the industrial and commercial environment, it cultivates cross-cultural management talents who are familiar with the economic development, foreign investment, and management of the Asia-Pacific region. Combining the educational strategies of industrial management and business management, the future employment fields are more diverse.

3. The “International Executive MBA (IEMBA)” program that takes the NUK brand abroad: Executive MBA programs are established in Vietnam, Shanghai, Haixi, and Thailand to enhance the competitive advantages of Taiwanese businesses in mainland China, Southeast Asia, and the world.

4. The “Department of Life Sciences” combines R&D technology results with local industrial applications: Including cooperation with Academia Sinica, Southern Taiwan Science Park, Taiwan Orchid, Pingtung Agriculture and other biotechnology parks to develop biotechnology with great industrial potential. Students have diverse job opportunities after graduation and can further pursue studies in the field of biotechnology and medicine.

5. Semiconductor-related departments – “Department of Electrical Engineering,” “Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering,” “Department of Information Engineering”: With the goal of promoting industrial upgrading, combining theory and practice, and cooperating with industry to cultivate students with the professional skills required by the industry.

6. The “1+4 International Foundation Program” provides overseas Chinese students who want to study at a university in Taiwan with the first choice to learn Mandarin well in the first year before starting professional courses: In the first year of enrollment, students learn Mandarin first, and after passing TOCFL A2, they enter the school’s 4-year bachelor’s program. The departments that are recruited include popular fields such as Sports, Health and Leisure, Architecture (1+5), Information Management, Finance, Electrical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering.

Studying abroad, employment internships, and entrepreneurship are not dreams, providing diverse choices

1. Studying abroad: Cooperating with many universities at home and abroad, students can take courses across schools at cooperative universities in Taiwan, and can exchange to sister schools abroad. The school’s sister schools span more than 370 universities in more than 30 countries, including Humboldt University in Germany, the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, Tohoku University in Japan, Seoul National University in South Korea, and the University of California, Riverside in the United States. In addition, following the New Southbound Policy, it connects with universities in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, etc., providing diverse learning channels.

2. Domestic and foreign corporate internships: Actively promoting industry-academia cooperation and “integration of learning and application,” students are selected through diverse channels to intern and visit companies in domestic, Southeast Asian, Chinese, and European regions (such as recommending students to new venture industries for internships through the “Talent Circulation and Exchange Promotion Program”). In addition, combined with corporate campus recruitment activities (such as TSMC, NXP, Winbond Electronics, ASE, ASML, etc.), employment internship opportunities are provided for students.

3. Student entrepreneurship: Implementing the industry mentor system, organizing the “N+5 Entrepreneurship Counseling Program,” promoting students’ professional identity by hiring industry experts as industry mentors, shortening the gap between learning and application, and providing entrepreneurial consulting services for students and graduates.

4. Counseling for international students and connecting with employment: In terms of international student counseling, special groups are responsible for recruitment promotion, enrollment, life counseling, and employment counseling, and the Overseas Chinese Association and international volunteer clubs regularly organize international activities. A career counseling group is set up to provide graduation counseling and employment mechanisms. After graduation, students can work in public and private institutions and organizations in Taiwan, or be employed in overseas regions such as China and Southeast Asia.