National Chiayi University

7 colleges teaching and researching, developing leading innovation:

There are currently 39 departments in 7 colleges, wholeheartedly investing in teaching resources, emphasizing students’ learning effectiveness and competitiveness in the workplace after graduation, and cultivating outstanding talents with both moral and academic excellence, holistic development, and outstanding innovation, with local awareness and global vision. It has established sister school relationships with 136 key universities in the Americas, Europe, and Asia to conduct international exchange and cooperation such as exchange students, dual degree programs, and overseas internships. It is an excellent institution of higher learning based in Taiwan and looking at the world.

In addition, it actively promotes industry-government-academia cooperation, effectively utilizes school equipment and talents, drives industrial growth, and transmits the latest industrial information to students to ensure that students can adapt to the skill needs in the workplace and meet professional competence standards in the future.

Devoting teaching resources

High-quality teachers pursue excellence and invest in the teaching resources of each student, ranking among the best. More than 90% of the full-time teachers have doctoral degrees. The faculty structure is of high quality, and teaching and research are advancing simultaneously, with an excellent learning environment.

In order to cultivate general knowledge and combine local care, the General Education Center of the Office of Academic Affairs of NCYU invites outstanding teachers from various professional fields to offer the “Chiayi Tour” micro-credit course, breaking away from one-way teaching, and leading students to go outdoors to experience cross-cultural literacy, cross-disciplinary knowledge, and cross-experience micro-credit courses, making the learning process diversified and in-depth, and enhancing the understanding and knowledge of students of our school on various aspects of humanities, history, geography, and ecology of Chiayi County and City.

Guaranteed Accommodation for Overseas Students

Student dormitories are distributed in the four campuses of Lantan, Linsen, Minxiong, and Xinmin, as well as Minguo Road (Jinde Building) and Shixian Road (Xiande Building), which can accommodate more than 3,700 people. The dormitory environment is quiet, the equipment is complete, equipped with air conditioning and computer network settings, and there are restaurants, lounges, self-study rooms, gyms, etc. In addition, there are school police officers stationed 24 hours a day to be responsible for the safety of students. The dormitory is fully equipped with card-swiping automatic access control and monitoring system. Freshman overseas Chinese students are guaranteed accommodation, and overseas Chinese students above the second grade have priority in applying.

International Academic Exchange and Cooperation

Based in Taiwan and looking at the world, our school takes “expanding international academic exchanges and enhancing the global vision of teachers and students” as its core, and proposes ten internationalization strategies to “optimize diverse overseas study channels and improve cross-border exchange and cooperation” and strengthen sister school exchanges and dual degree cooperation promotion, etc., and actively assists teachers and students to participate in international exchanges.

跨域學習

In order to cultivate students’ knowledge and ability to adapt to the environment, in addition to the existing minor and double major systems, the interdisciplinary curriculum modules (specific professional fields) of credit program or micro-program are developed by organizing and integrating the resources and characteristics of departments or different fields within the school.

Our school actively promotes interdisciplinary learning and provides students with diverse choices and flexible planning. The school has minor, double major, and interdisciplinary credit programs, allowing students to extend their second major according to their interests and expertise, and cultivate interdisciplinary integration capabilities. In addition, our school participates in the cross-school minor and double major programs of the Taiwan National University System, and students can cross school boundaries to select courses from cooperative schools to expand learning resources and horizons. In the face of the era of artificial intelligence, our school has also joined the Taiwan University and College Artificial Intelligence Program Alliance, providing cross-school online courses, covering four major programs including exploration and application, industrial application, natural language and visual technology, allowing students to strengthen AI knowledge and application capabilities without regional restrictions. In the future, NCYU will continue to integrate internal and external resources to deepen the learning blueprint of “interdisciplinary, inter-school, and inter-future” to assist students in developing multiple intelligences and competitiveness, and demonstrate unique and forward-looking interdisciplinary education characteristics.