Shih Chien University

Excellence in People’s Livelihood

Emphasizing the development of life sciences is a unique feature of our school. For a long time, our school has actively invested in the research and promotion of the founding purpose of life science knowledge, focusing on the six major needs of people’s livelihood, and taking the educational goal of making life “ethical, artistic, scientific, and productive.” We offer integrated courses that combine theory and practice to strengthen students’ planning, evaluation, and execution abilities, and further enhance the employment competitiveness of graduates. At the same time, in order to extend the scope of education, our school has established the Changhua Ershui Township Village Home Economics Extension Experimental Center, kindergartens, and elderly life and health research centers to strengthen the promotion of community education, preschool education, and lifelong learning universities, in order to implement the founding intention of “caring for the national economy and people’s livelihood.”

Leading in Design

Our school has achieved fruitful teaching results, and each of the five colleges has its own development characteristics. Among them, the College of Design has repeatedly won various indicative international design awards, such as the German iF, red dot, American IDEA, and Japan Nagoya Fashion Contest. In the 2007 National University Design Department Ranking Survey by “Global Views,” it was ranked first in the design practice category and was hailed as “Taiwan’s Harvard”; in the same year, it was also rated by the American “Business Week” as one of the world’s top 60 best design colleges;

In 2009, the Graduate Institute of Industrial Product Design was selected as one of the top 30 best design departments in the world; in 2011, our school won the Red Dot Design Award, ranking fifth among the best universities in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of cumulative rankings, and in 2012, it rose to third place. On May 2, 2012, the Economic Daily News reported on the German Red Dot Design Award and announced the world university regional rankings for the first time, with our school ranking first among private schools in Taiwan.

In addition, our school’s student works have also been invited to participate in the Milan International Furniture Fair in Italy, Tokyo Design Week in Japan, Beijing China International Fashion Week, Madrid Fashion Week in Spain, Milan International Design Exhibition in Italy, Spanish International Product Exhibition, German Rhine Design Festival, Saint-Étienne Design Biennale in France, Belgian Design Biennale, Parsons School of Design Faculty and Student Joint Exhibition in New York, USA, and Annecy Film Festival in France. The excellent competition performance and international exhibitions of the College of Design fully demonstrate the strength of our school in the international design professional field, and can be regarded as a model of domestic design teaching, laying a good foundation for our school to move towards the development vision of a high-quality practical teaching university in the Asia-Pacific region.

Our school has achieved fruitful teaching results, and each of the five colleges has its own development characteristics. Among them, the College of Design has repeatedly won various indicative international design awards, such as the German iF, red dot, American IDEA, and Japan Nagoya Fashion Contest. In the 2007 National University Design Department Ranking Survey by “Global Views,” it was ranked first in the design practice category and was hailed as “Taiwan’s Harvard”; in the same year, it was also rated by the American “Business Week” as one of the world’s top 60 best design colleges;

In 2009, the Graduate Institute of Industrial Product Design was selected as one of the top 30 best design departments in the world; in 2011, our school won the Red Dot Design Award, ranking fifth among the best universities in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of cumulative rankings, and in 2012, it rose to third place. On May 2, 2012, the Economic Daily News reported on the German Red Dot Design Award and announced the world university regional rankings for the first time, with our school ranking first among private schools in Taiwan.

International Integration

Our school deeply understands the importance of internationalizing teaching and globalizing talents. Over the years, we have actively promoted various international exchanges and cooperation with foreign schools, and have achieved considerable results.

In addition, we also create a rich foreign language learning environment and resources to improve language learning effectiveness, so that students have the ability to connect with the world. Our school pioneered the precedent of domestic students going abroad to pursue dual degrees in 1994, and actively promoted academic exchanges with internationally renowned universities. Sister schools are located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and mainland China.

For example, the College of Design cooperates with the School of Architecture and Planning and the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, the Graduate Institute of Urban Planning and Design of Harvard University in the United States, the Department of Architecture of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the United Kingdom, the London College of Fashion in the United Kingdom, and the Bournemouth Arts University to organize faculty and student “international workshops” to expand students’ international horizons. The College of Management has established international exchange programs and IMBA all-English courses in response to the trends of the times, combining the resources of international sister schools to provide students with diverse learning channels, in order to shape the school’s characteristic of students having international mobility.

On-the-Job Learning

Our school is characterized by practical teaching. Each department plans practical learning directions and main axes according to its professional characteristics, so that students have practical experience and literacy during their studies. For example, the College of Management and the College of Business and Information develop an on-the-job flexible learning system, seeking cooperation with the industry to introduce richer resources and technologies, expand students’ on-the-job flexible learning opportunities, and encourage teachers to establish industry-university cooperation with enterprises. The College of Human Ecology is committed to promoting professional internships in order to shorten the gap between theory and practice, increase practical experience, and complete the qualifications for relevant professional certifications.

In addition, in order to cultivate future interdisciplinary talents, our school actively integrates school resources and offers interdisciplinary programs oriented towards practice and employment, combining different professional fields, with the aim of cultivating all-round professional talents, enhancing workplace competitiveness, and establishing students’ differentiated unique competitive advantages, in order to implement the positioning of our school as a practical teaching university and strengthen the innovative and practical teaching characteristics of our school.