National Taiwan University of Science Technology | Taiwan

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), was established on August 1, 1974, as the first higher education institution of its kind within the nation’s technical and vocational education system. The main campus, located in Taipei covers an area of about 10 hectares, while all campuses together cover 44.5 hectares. On attaining university status in 1997, the school reorganized itself into the following five colleges: engineering, electrical and computer engineering, management, design, liberal arts and social sciences. The departments include many options from mechanical engineering and polymer engineering, to industrial and commercial design, and applied foreign languages. NTUST also has graduate schools in engineering, automation and control, materials science and technology, electro-optical engineering, management, finance, design, and technical and vocational education. In addition, the humanities department handles courses in the humanities and social sciences; the general education department handles courses offered to students in all departments which encourage them to explore fields of knowledge outside their majors, and the teacher education center trains teachers for the nation’s technical and vocational high schools. Altogether NTUST has twenty-one separate academic teaching units which accept students into undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs.