National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)

Taiwan Tech opened on 1 August 1974 as the National Taiwan Institute of Technology, the first institution in Taiwan’s technical and vocational system to award degrees, created to supply engineers and managers for rapid industrial growth. Master’s programmes followed in 1979, doctorates in 1982, and in 1997 the institute became the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.

Teaching spans a main campus in Taipei’s Da’an District plus branch campuses at Tu-Cheng, Keelung, Gong-Guan and Chupei, 29.44 hectares in total. Six colleges cover engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, management, design, liberal arts and social sciences, and applied sciences. Enrolment stands at 5,605 undergraduates and 4,902 graduate students taught by 415 full-time faculty.

Design has its own college, combining a Department of Design and a Department of Architecture, and reporting 710 undergraduates, 292 master’s students and 97 doctoral candidates. It defines itself by applied research, intelligent green building technology and creative design, organised through an Office of Research and Development and dedicated research centres.

By August 2025 it counted more than 400 partner institutions worldwide, under university-wide and faculty agreements, while an Office of International Affairs runs exchange, laboratory internships and degree-seeking admissions.