The entrance examination score needed to enter NTU is typically the highest among universities in Republic of China, and using this ranking, it is widely considered the best and most prestigious university in Taiwan. NTU admits students based solely on merits, disregarding other factors such as race or gender. The female-to-male ratio in the undergraduate population is 0.87 : 1.
NTU students play prominent roles in political and social acitivities. Both the left and right movements in Taiwan are rooted in the NTU campus.
Contents
1History
2Education
3Campus
4Organization
5The Presidents
6Alumni
6.1Academics
6.1.1University chancellors
6.1.2Humanities and social sciences
6.1.3Physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering
6.1.4Life sciences
6.2Politics
6.3Entertainment
7Notes
8See also
9External links
History
The predecessor of National Taiwan University was Taihoku Imperial University, founded by the Japanese Government in 1928. The first president was Hiroshi Shidehara. When Taihoku Imperial University was first established, it had two colleges: the College of Liberal Arts and Law, and the College of Science and Agriculture, and had a total of 60 students. The College of Medicine and the College of Engineering were added in 1936 and 1943, respectively.
After World War II and the return of Chinese control, the Republic of China government renamed it as National Taiwan University on November 15, 1945 and appointed Lo Tsung-lo as the first president. The University has undergone multiple times of reorganization ever since. As of the 2004 academic year, the University has a total of 11 colleges, 54 departments, and 96 graduate institutes (which offer 96 Master's programs and 83 doctoral programs). The number of students reached 29,877 in 2004, including those enrolling in the Division of Continuing Education & Professional Development. A new library was built in 1998, and now contains over 3,000,000 volumes of books.
The educational system in NTU is similar to that of many universities in Asia, Europe, and South America. A student must declare a major before admission. Some majors are more competitive than others and require a higher national examination score. Traditionally, medicine, electrical engineering, and law are the three most selective majors. To get into the medical school of NTU, an applicant needs to score among the top 100 students in the national exam (out of more than 500,000 test takers every year). The medical degree takes 7 years to finish, while most of the other majors take 4 years.
NTU requires most of its undergraduate students to take a mandatory core curriculum, comprising Chinese literature, English, constitution, calculus, and (western or Chinese) history. The medical school in addition dictates each of its students to take philosophy and sociology classes as well as seminars in ethics and thanatology. Military training is no longer obligatory for males, but it is a prerequisite if the student plans to be an officer during his postgraduate military service.
A scene in the main campus of National Taiwan University
The University has six campuses in the greater Taipei region (including Taipei County) and two additional campuses in Nantou County, amounting to ~1% of the total area of the Taiwan Island. The University governs farms, forests, and hospitals for educational and research purposes. The main campus (校總區) is in Taipei's Da-an district, where most department buildings and all the administrative buildings are located. Notable exceptions are the College of Law and the College of Medicine, which are located near the Presidential Building (Taiwan).
A president (校長) heads the University. Each college (院) is headed by a dean (院長), and each department (系) by a chairman (系主任). Students elect their own representatives each year to attend administrative meetings.
NTU alumni are influential in the politics of Taiwan as well as in academics. Many NTU scholars enjoy a portion of their career outside of Taiwan, most frequently in U.S.A.
Academics
University chancellors
Tien Chang-lin (田長霖): the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
Henry T. Yang (楊祖佑): the 5th Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuan-Hua David Ho (賀端華): ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) highly cited researcher in plant and animal science; UNESCO Professorship, 2004; Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, 2003-
Ru-Chih Chow Huang (黃周汝吉): American Women in Science, 1985; Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Su-Ming Hsu, M.D. (許世明): ISI highly cited researcher in clinical medicine (cited more than 10,000 times between 1981 and 1992); Professor of Pathology, NTU
Yuh Nung Jan (詹裕農): Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Molecular Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Selina Chen-Kiang: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Michael M. C. Lai, M.D. (賴明詔): Vice President, Academia Sinica; Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, 1990-2003
Vivian E. Shih, M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Ming T. Tsuang, M.D. (莊明哲): University Professor, University of California; Director, Institute of Behavioral Genomics, University of California, San Diego; Director, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
Ching-Chung Wang (王正中): Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
James C. Wang (王倬): discoverer of topoisomerase; Chair (1983-1985) and Professor (1977-2005), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
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