National Chiao Tung University

NCTU or NYCU with rich academic research and boring campus life in Hsinchu, Taiwanese silicon valley.

wen tsen liao
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2 min readJul 3, 2022

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NCTU is a top research university in Taiwan as well as in East Asia. Located close to Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) — the “Silicon Valley” of Taiwan, the university has been an optimal hub of academic and industrial collaboration and a forerunner of science and technological innovations.

National Chiao Tung University — Wikipedia

NCTU was merged with National Yang-Ming University into the newly formed National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on 1 February 2021.[8]

National Chiao Tung University : Rankings, Fees & Courses Details | QSChina

National Chiao Tung University (“NCTU”) is a top research university in Taiwan as well as in East Asia. Located close to Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) — the “Silicon Valley” of Taiwan, the university has been an optimal hub of academic and industrial collaboration and a forerunner of science and technological innovations.

Today, the University is comprehensive university, composed of 12 colleges that offer undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Technology, Computer Science, Science, Biological Science and Technology, Photonics, AI & Green Energy, Management, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences, Hakka Studies.

UNDERGRADUATE

The university has created several interdisciplinary curriculums that allows students to complete a minor with easily accessible resources and flexible credit requirements. It also provides a range of mini-courses to improve hands-on capabilities for cross-disciplinary studies. It also builds up several co-working maker spaces that integrate teaching and research resources of different disciplines.

As a part of the commitment to internationalization, the University is expanding partnerships with leading industries and prominent academic or research institutes around the world via exchange student programs, dual degree programs, research visits and practical trainings or internships. Currently NCTU has signed 550+ agreements with almost 300 foreign universities, including 50+ duel-degree agreements.

POSTGRADUATE

NCTU is well known for its strong academia-industry collaboration and is highly reputed for cutting edge technological innovations. Believes in “diversity is creativity,” the university offers diverse postgraduate degree programs that meets the high standards of specific academic and professional disciplines.

Surrounded by seven national research centers and laboratories, NCTU provides postgraduates unsurpassed research opportunities in leading technology experiment, practical training, or internship. These research resources include:
National Measurement Laboratory (NML), National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL), National Chip Implementation Center (CIC), National Space Organization (NSPO), Instrument Technology Research Center (ITRC), National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC), National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC)

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