National Cheng Kung University
Region: Eastern Asia
Country/Region: China-Taiwan
Found Year: 1931
Address: No.1, University Road
Introduction

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), located in Taiwan’s ancient and cultural capital of Tainan, is one of Taiwan’s top research intensive universities and a leader in promoting industry-academia cooperation. With more than 1,200 faculty members, 22,000 students and 140,000 alumni worldwide, the university is best known for its science, engineering, medicine, management, planning and design. Since its establishment in 1931, NCKU has transformed from an engineering college into a comprehensive university comprised of 9 colleges, including Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience & Biotechnology, on 11 campuses. Occupying a total of 187 hectares of land, the 9 colleges along with its affiliated hospital are conveniently located in the downtown area of eastern Tainan. NCKU currently offers 42 undergraduate programs, (excluding Program of Bachelor’s Degree), 74 master’s degree programs, 53 doctoral programs and 17 master’s degree programs for working professionals. As a top-notch national university in Taiwan, NCKU has played a vital and critical role in creating Taiwan’s economic miracle by helping Taiwan to transform from an agriculture-based society to an industrialized economy during the 1960s and 1970s. Many excellent engineers devoted to manufacturing, construction and social services are cultivated in this oldest engineering university nationwide. Since the establishment of the Research and Service Headquarters in 1996, a total of more than 60 research centers, including the Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy, Innovation Center for Advanced Medical Device Technology Center, Infectious Disease and Signaling Research Center and Advanced Optoelectronics Technology Center, have been founded to support teaching and research environment and promote cooperation among industry and academia. The 4 elite research centers are recognized by the Ministry of Education for their outstanding performance. Over the years, faculty and students have achieved great success in academia and research, which are reflected in the ranking of world university rankings and also in the number of publications in international journals. In addition, according to the ESI database, NCKU has published 18,333 papers in the last ten years and has respectively ranked the 24th and the 51th in the list of world top 100 universities respectively in the engineering and computer science fields. Inspired and enlightened by the University motto: “Discover the truth, devoted to knowledge,” NCKU students have been well-educated to become the most favored college graduates by local industries in Taiwan. Annual surveys conducted by prestigious Taiwanese magazines such as Common Wealth, Global Views and Cheers have ranked NCKU graduates as “industry favorites” each year since 1993. Notably, more than 100 of the NCKU graduates have become university presidents, and about 147,000 graduates have found gainfully employment in all walks of life around the world. NCKU has also achieved remarkable success in globalization. Not only has an English-speaking environment been built to attract hundreds of international students, but substantial academic ties have also been established with many world-class universities and institutes. NCKU currently has 751 international students, compared to 272 in 2006, which is a growth rate of more than 100%. In addition to its global ties, NCKU remains supportive of its home in Southern Taiwan. The relations among NCKU, the Southern Taiwan Science Park and the Kaohsiung Science Park are comparable to those among Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Silicon Valley. “The University educates future leaders with humanistic and professional grounding, creativity, global vision and social consciousness while promotes interdisciplinary research to benefit our society and mankind.” To advance National Cheng Kung University for a world-class top university, President Su is determined to establish a friendly campus environment for better interdisciplinary teaching and research and industry-academia cooperation and to bring about substantial international exchanges. With its research strengths in engineering medicine, as well as notable accomplishments of the University’s 4 elite research centers, the University intends to mobilize and integrate research capacities from partner universities of the T4 Alliance and from universities across the country in order to boost both academic and industrial competitiveness and elevate its international status to world-class level in the following 5 years.

Academic Ranking of World Universities
401-500
Academic Ranking of World Universities
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. ARWU presents the world's top 1000 research universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data.
301-400
2022
301-400
2023
401-500
2024
Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
All Subjects
Subject
Rank
Best Ranked Subjects
Subject Rank
Nursing
51-75
Biotechnology
76-100
Chemical Engineering
151-200
Energy Science & Engineering
151-200
Hospitality & Tourism Management
151-200
Instruments Science & Technology
201-300
Dentistry & Oral Sciences
201-300
Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
201-300
Key Statistics
20226
Total Enrollment
2315(11.4%)
International Students
11422
Undergraduate Enrollment
1151(10.1%)
International Students
8804
Graduate Enrollment
1164(13.2%)
International Students
Programs
Undergraduate Programs
Accounting
Aerospace Engineering
Anesthesiology
Architecture
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Chinese Literature
Civil Engineering
Computer Science and Information Engineering
Dentistry
Dermatology
Earth Sciences
Economics
Electrical Engineering
Emergency Medicine
Engineering Science
Environmental Engineering
Family Medicine
Foreign Languages ​​And Literature
Forensic Disciplines
History
Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering
Industrial and Information Management
Industrial Design
Internal Medicine
Law
Life Sciences
Materials Science and Engineering
Maternity Disciplines
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology
Medicine
Mentally Disciplines
Nuclear Medicine
Nursing
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Occupational Therapy
Ophthalmology
Optoelectronic Science and Engineering
Orthopaedics
Otolaryngology
Parasitology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Physics
Physiotherapy
Political Science
Psychiatry
Psychology
Radiology
Rehabilitation Disciplines
Resources Engineering
Space, Astrophysical and Plasma Sciences
Statistics
Surgical Disciplines
Surveying and Spatial Information
Systems and Naval Mechatronic Engineering
Taiwanese Literature
Traffic Management
Urban Planning
Urology
Graduate Programs
Advanced Management Master Program (Emba)
Anatomy & Cell Biology, and Anatomy
Art
Basic Medical Sciences
Behavioral Medicine
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Biodiversity
Bioinformatics and Messaging
Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Biotechnology
Business Administration and International Enterprise
Clinical Medicine
Cognitive Science
Computer and Communication Engineering
Creative Industry Design
Education
Finance
Gerontology
Health Care
Industrial Hygiene the Environmental Medicine
Information Management
International Management (Imba)
Manufacturing Information and Systems Research
MBA Programs (Amba)
Medical Informatics
Microbiology and Immunology
Microelectronics
Molecular Medicine
Nanotechnology and Microsystems Engineering
Ocean Technology and Marine Affairs
Oral Medicine
Pharmacology Pharmacology
Physiology
Political Economy
Public Health the Public Health
Sports, Health & Leisure Studies
Telecommunications Management
Tropical Plant Sciences