Université Nationale de Taiwan

National Taiwan University is the flagship university of Taiwan: it is the country’s premier research institution as well as the most comprehensive. Founded 85 years ago, it has played a leading role in education and research. Today, it supports a global strategy that values research excellence, sustained mobility, an expanded network of 500 partners and the creation of quality opportunities on and off campus.

Figures in brief

• 32,000 students
• Student exchange agreements with 40 countries
• Campuses add up to 1% of Taiwan’s land
• Ranks 1st in Taiwan based on research budget
• About 5,200 employees, around 3,800 of them teachers and researchers
• Faculty among the top 1% in the world by number of highly cited papers in 19 out of 22 areas of the ESI (Essential Science Indicators) database

NTU’s resources include:

A privileged location
NTU’s main location is a large, easily accessible garden-campus in central Taipei.
   
The largest library in Taiwan
The NTU Library contains four million volumes.
 
Sports facilities
A large part of the campus is devoted to exercise and health, including the New Sports Center opened in 2002, the Old Stadium and various outdoor tennis courts and playing fields.
 
An e-University
NTU offers wide computing availability on campus and provides webmail portals, multiple networking services, computer courses, distance learning services, cloud computing for storage, software share and mobile devices, such as the MyNTU portal, NTU Space, NTU AppShare, NTU SoftBank and iNTU.