National Chi Nan University

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I Excellent teaching and research results, providing graded Chinese language courses for international students

1.The employment rate of NCNU students ranks 2nd among national comprehensive universities, the overall employment performance ranks 7th in the country, and the average starting salary of graduates is higher than 30,000 yuan.

2.Stanford University released the “Top 2% of the World’s Top Scientists List”. A total of 11 teachers from our school were selected in the “Lifetime Science Impact Ranking” and the “2020 Annual Science Impact Ranking”, accounting for about 5% of the number of teachers in NCNU. The selected professors are from the College of Science and Technology and the College of Management, and their research covers semiconductor materials and components, transportation, disaster management, and artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.

3.NCNU provides international students with [Chinese Language Courses] graded teaching. Students can take graded Chinese language courses suitable for their level to effectively improve their Chinese language skills.

II. NCNU has signed cross-school course selection with 10 national universities to implement a borderless university

The “Taiwan National University System” jointly formed by 11 national universities in central and southern Taiwan includes National Chi Nan University, National Chung Hsing University, National United University, National Taiwan University of Sport, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, National Taichung University of Education, National Changhua University of Education, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, National Formosa University, National Chiayi University and National Kaohsiung University, jointly signed a cross-school course selection cooperation agreement. Students from 11 schools can cross-select courses and mutually recognize credits. Bachelor’s students can take 2 courses per semester for free, which is very helpful to encourage students to cross-school and cross-domain learning, and also builds a good foundation for the subsequent promotion of cross-school minor and double major, and exchange student cooperation.

Through the university system platform, 11 national universities are combined to make good use of the resources of each school, seek complementary benefits, expand the basis of cooperation, create cross-domain synergy, and concretely present the horizontal connection power of the university system, so that teachers and students can actually benefit; cross-school course selection cooperation is just the beginning, followed by cross-school minor and double major, cross-school exchange students and other cooperation, through curriculum resource sharing, to meet students’ diverse learning needs, broaden students’ learning fields, and then enhance students’ future employment competitiveness.

Through cross-school course selection cooperation, NCNU students can take courses at other schools for free, increasing the diversity and choice of students’ cross-domain learning. Students from other schools can also come to NCNU to take characteristic courses, such as the R-Cubic Youth Returning Home Innovation Practice Credit Program, the Southeast Asian Culture Characteristic Credit Program, the Green Environmental Protection Credit Program, the Music Technology Micro-Credit Program, the Local Industry and Rural Development Credit Program, the Civil Service Development Credit Program, and the Global Management Elite Credit Program. In addition, there are also characteristic sports courses such as archery, boating, golf, and international standard dance, which are popular among students and are very welcome for students from other schools to take.

III. The school’s extracurricular activities are diverse and rich, and the sports and health center has new equipment

1.The school’s extracurricular activities are diverse, rich and unique, including characteristic sports courses (required physical education courses), cherry blossom season activities, spring hiking activities, school anniversary series activities, student union activities (such as campus concerts), etc.

2.Characteristic sports courses: NCNU connects the environmental advantages of the adjacent Sun Moon Lake and local talents, and offers “characteristic sports” school-wide common courses – boating, archery, swimming, tennis, golf, international standard dance and other 6 characteristic sports. Each student must complete at least two characteristic sports courses before graduation.

3.There are about 86 student clubs in the school, including seven categories:

— Sports clubs: such as mountaineering club, football club, tennis club, vitality YOGA club, badminton club, baseball and softball club, kendo club, archery club, table tennis club, fitness club, men’s volleyball club, boxing training club, Dongtian street fitness club, women’s basketball club, etc.

— Academic and artistic clubs: NCNU English Debate Society, Da Bei Fa Zang Buddhist Society, Fire Dance Performing Arts Society, Knbiyax Club Indigenous Youth Society, Dora Art Society, Reasoning Research Society, Western Baking Society, Yu Ji Sign Language Society, Coffee Research Society, Securities Research Society, Chan Yue Society, Drama Society, Reading Promotion Society, Drinking Society, Card Competition Research Society, Literary Creation Society, Astronomy Society, Information Maker Society, etc.

— Social clubs: Malaysian Student Association, Overseas Chinese Student Association, Indonesian Student Association, Hong Kong and Macao Student Association, Living Spring Singing Society, NCNU Fellowship, North Friendship Association, etc.

— Music clubs: Guitar Club, Wind Music Club, Popular Music Club, National Style Music Club, Piano Club, String Music Club, Ukulele Club, FUN Music Club, Hip Hop Culture Research Club.

— Recreational clubs: Popular Dance Club, Shuxin Club, Anime Club, Survival Game Club, Life Navigation Club, Table Game Club.

— Service clubs: Social Service Group, Animal Protection Society, Chongde Youth Volunteer Society, Goodwill Ambassador Group, Shuishalian Rover Group, Shanlifang Education Group, Tzu Ching Society, etc.

— Autonomous clubs: Student Union, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Department of Social Work, Department of Public Administration, Department of History, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Indigenous Special Class, Department of Cultural Creativity and Social Marketing Master’s Program, Department of International Business, Department of Economics, Department of Information Management, Department of Finance, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Department of Management Bachelor’s Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, Department of Science and Technology Bachelor’s Program, Department of Applied Optics, Department of International and Comparative Education, Department of Education Administration, Department of Counseling and Human Resources, Department of Education Bachelor’s Program.

4.The Sports and Health Center is fully equipped: including a comprehensive gymnasium on the first floor (basketball, volleyball, badminton shared), table tennis room, indoor 50-meter heated swimming pool in the swimming pool, water sports pool, spa pool, sauna, steam room, and a gym and aerobics classroom on the second floor.

5.Construction of an outdoor exploration education center

In cooperation with the town office, we applied for a central subsidy of 28 million yuan through the local revitalization project to build an outdoor exploration education center on campus, build the most complete low-to-high-altitude exploration education facilities in central Taiwan, and become an important field for mountain and wilderness exploration education in central Taiwan, and further develop characteristic courses and camp activities. In the area between the NCNU Sports and Health Center and the large playground, 6 low-altitude facilities and 42 medium-to-high-altitude exploration facilities modules are built according to the existing slope, scale, and difficulty level.

Industry-Academia Cooperation

The school gives full play to its own advantages and characteristics. Through the joint efforts of various colleges, departments, centers, and institutes, the school’s industry-university cooperation projects in recent years, government-commissioned and industry-university cooperation projects in 107 were 79 cases, with an amount of 144,217,925 yuan, 85 cases in 108, with an amount of 126,506,049 yuan, and 88 cases in 109, with an amount of 302,299,525 yuan, showing diverse and high-quality industry-university cooperation results.

I In terms of signing industry-university cooperation agreements: The school has signed agreements with the Financial Information Center of the Ministry of Finance, the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, the Taiwan Literature Museum of the National History Museum, King Yuan Electronics Co., Ltd., the Instrument Technology Research Center of the National Laboratory Research Institute, the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology of the Ministry of National Defense, the National Health Research Institute, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, the Metal Industry Research and Development Center, the National Immigration Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, Puli Veterans Hospital, Puli Christian Hospital, Zhushan Xiuchuan Hospital, Changhua County Government, Nantou County Government, LDC Hotels & Resorts and U-Media Digital Technology Co., Ltd. and other agencies or institutions to promote industry-university cooperation in various fields. In addition, in order to promote local industry-university cooperation, we have also signed cooperation agreements with 22 public associations or non-profit organizations such as the Greater Puli Tourism Association.

II In terms of government subsidies and commissioned projects:

The school has received many major government project subsidies, which have injected a lot of funds into teaching and research, and enriched the school’s various equipment.

— Ministry of Education subsidy projects:

Higher Education Deep Cultivation Project, Strengthening Cooperation and Exchange with ASEAN and South Asian Countries Project, University Social Responsibility Practice Project (USR), Issue-Oriented Interdisciplinary Narrative Power Cultivation Project, Humanities, Social Sciences and Technology Forward-looking Talent Project, Southeast Asian Language Education Center Project, Teaching Practice Research Project, Borderless University Project, Teaching Empowerment Project, Teaching Innovation Project, Characteristic University Project, etc.

— Government commissioned projects:

The Ministry of Education’s National and Preschool Education Administration’s “107 Academic Year Senior High School Student Learning Process Database Construction and Operation Project – Sub-Project – Academic Performance Process Reporting Platform”, “Senior High School Data Filling Integration Platform Phase 1 Construction Project”, “National Senior High School Student Basic Database Construction and Operation Project (Phase 2)” and the “Soil and Water Conservation Bureau Autonomous Disaster Prevention Community 2.0 Promotion Project Management Project” in cooperation with the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau of the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, etc., show that the school has the research and development energy to implement major government projects.

— Promote industry-university cooperation with local industrial characteristics:
The school is located in Nantou County, and the local industrial characteristics are agriculture and tourism. We encourage teachers to invest in projects that connect with local industries, such as the Ministry of Education’s University Social Responsibility Practice Project (USR), the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Humanities Innovation and Social Practice Project, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s University and Local Government Cooperation to Promote Local Human Development and Cross-domain Governance Project, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Industry-University Technology Alliance Cooperation Project, promote and market the innovation of Nantou’s local coffee industry and rural catering, and cooperate with the Nantou County Government on disaster prevention and hillside land use and management projects, environmental landscape general consultant projects, food (real) bank assistance professional service projects, climate change environmental protection business response strategy projects, Nantou County Government Indigenous Peoples Administration Bureau official website construction projects, etc., showing that the school cares about the local area and contributes to society.

— In terms of assisting resident manufacturers and encouraging teachers and students to start businesses:
In order to enhance the entrepreneurial atmosphere among teachers and students in the school, the school’s Entrepreneurship Incubation Center assists students in entrepreneurial practice. Since 109, it has offered a 24-hour course called “Reading and Creation Sprout Elementary Class” to provide students with the basic concepts of entrepreneurship; and offered a “Reading and Creation Sprout Advanced Class – U-start Special Class”, hiring industry mentors to conduct individual counseling for the team; in 109, 2 teams received the first-stage subsidy of the Ministry of Education’s Youth Development Agency U-start Program, with a total of 1 million yuan in entrepreneurial funds; one of the teams also received a 600,000 yuan bonus in the second stage. In 110, 3 teams received the first-stage subsidy of the U-start Program, with a total of 1.5 million yuan in entrepreneurial funds.

In addition, in order to assist micro-enterprises that are just starting out, in addition to finding external resources, the center assists resident manufacturers in completing planning books to compete for government project subsidies, and provides specific counseling according to the needs of the manufacturers. The center currently has 2 areas of entrepreneurial incubation space, located in the main campus and the Central Science Park, with a total of 7 physical resident manufacturers in 109 and 5 virtual resident manufacturers in 109.

Low tuition fees and comfortable accommodation environment

The school has low tuition fees, a beautiful environment, comfortable accommodation, and provides international students with four-year guaranteed accommodation, reducing the burden.