Feng Chia University

Feng Chia University (FCU, 逢甲大學) is a private university in the Xitun District of Taichung, Taiwan, founded in 1961 as the Feng Chia College of Engineering and Business and elevated to university status in 1980.逢甲大学（Feng Chia University，简称 FCU）是台湾台中市西屯区的一所私立大学，1961 年以逢甲工商学院之名创办，1980 年升格为大学。

It is named after the poet and educator Qiu Fengjia, a leader of the 1895 resistance against the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and has grown into a comprehensive institution with about 20,000 students and some 2,200 faculty and staff, with its Xitun main campus adjoining the Fengjia Night Market and additional sites at Fuxing, Zhongke and Shuannan.该校以诗人、教育家丘逢甲命名，他是 1895 年台湾抗日武装抵抗的领导人之一，如今已发展为拥有约 2 万名学生与约 2200 名教职员工的综合性大学。

FCU offers 57 bachelor's, 76 master's and 14 doctoral programmes through eight colleges, is a member of the Tsinghua Big Five Alliance, holds AACSB accreditation and appears in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.逢甲大学通过 8 个学院开设 57 个学士、76 个硕士与 14 个博士项目，是清华五校联盟成员并获 AACSB 认证，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间。

History

• In 1958 the National Assembly delegate Chen Huirui and Qiu Niantai, son of Qiu Fengjia, proposed a Canghai University, and Qiu Niantai suggested instead naming the planned institution after his father.1958 年，国民大会代表陈会瑞与丘逢甲之子丘念台共同发起筹设「沧海大学」，后由丘念台提议改以「逢甲」为校名。

• The Ministry of Education approved the board on 27 February 1961 and accredited the school on 5 July 1961 as the Feng Chia College of Engineering and Business, with departments of civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, accounting and business administration.教育部于 1961 年 2 月 27 日核准董事会成立，同年 7 月 5 日正式立案为逢甲工商学院，初设土木工程、水利工程、会计与工商管理四系。

• Classes began on 15 November 1961 at the Dakeng Guanyin Mountain site in Beitun District, with 221 students placed there through the joint entrance examination and Chen Pan-ling as first president.1961 年 11 月 15 日，学院在北屯区大坑观音山校址开课，221 名学生经大专联考分发入学，陈泮岭出任首任院长。

• The university takes its name from Qiu Fengjia, the Hakka poet and educator who led armed resistance in 1895 and whose family donated the intellectual and symbolic capital behind the foundation.校名取自客家诗人、教育家丘逢甲，他于 1895 年领导武装抗日，其家族为创校提供了思想与象征资源。

• In March 1962 a dispute over student records and finances led the Ministry of Education to order a full reorganisation of the board on 24 May, and President Chen Pan-ling resigned.1962 年 3 月，学籍与财务争议导致教育部于 5 月 24 日下令全面改组董事会，陈泮岭院长因此辞职。

• Gao Xin, a former vice minister of education, became the second president, bought more than 16,000 ping of land in Xitun, admitted another 385 students in October 1962 and kept classes in rented houses on Beituen Road while the new buildings rose.曾任教育部次长的高信接任第二任院长，在西屯购置一万六千余坪土地，并于 1962 年 10 月补录取 385 名学生。

• The first Xitun building was completed on 15 January 1963 and the college moved there on 19 February, beginning the expansion that took the site from 16,000 to 69,800 ping.西屯校舍第一期于 1963 年 1 月 15 日完工，学院于 2 月 19 日正式迁入，校地由此从一万六千坪扩展至六万九千八百坪。

• Chang Hsi-che became the third president in January 1963, when the college had about 500 students and staff and still borrowed classrooms from Beituen Elementary School.1963 年 1 月，张希哲接任第三任院长，当时全院师生约 500 人，仍借用北屯国小教室上课。

• In 1963 the college created the Department of Banking and Insurance, the first such department in Greater China, and in 1971 it added the first insurance graduate institute in the region.1963 年，学院设立银行保险学系，为大中华地区首个同类系所，1971 年又成立该地区首个保险研究所。

• On 26 March 1980 the Fuxing campus was added, and on 11 June 1980 the institution was renamed Feng Chia University.1980 年 3 月 26 日增设福星校区，同年 6 月 11 日更名为逢甲大学。

• On 14 September 2006 the university opened the Zhongke campus in the Central Taiwan Science Park, extending its teaching and industry links beyond the Xitun site.2006 年 9 月 14 日，该校在中部科学工业园区设立中科校区，把教学与产业合作扩展至西屯主校区之外。

• In 2006 the university's information office became the world's first school-level unit to pass the CMMI-SW/SS maturity level 3 appraisal.2006 年，该校资讯单位通过 CMMI-SW/SS 第三级评鉴，成为全球首个达到该成熟度等级的学校单位。
• In 2005 the Ministry of Education selected FCU as the Central Taiwan Regional Teaching Resource Center, coordinating 13 partner universities including Chung Hsing, Tunghai and China Medical University.2005 年，教育部选定逢甲为中部区域教学资源中心，协调中兴、东海、中国医药等 13 所伙伴大学。

• In 2008 the APEC Research Center for Advanced Biohydrogen Technology was established on the FCU campus, and in 2009 the Open Geospatial Consortium designated its GIS Research Center as an Asian standards testing centre.2008 年 APEC 先进生物制氢技术研究中心在校内设立，2009 年开放地理空间信息联盟（OGC）指定其地理信息系统研究中心为亚洲标准测试中心。

• The College of Business earned AACSB accreditation in 2014, joining the less than five per cent of business schools worldwide that hold the credential.商学院于 2014 年获得 AACSB 认证，进入全球不足 5% 获此认证的商学院行列。

• In March 2017 Apple opened Taiwan's first Apple Regional Training Center at FCU, making it the only university in the country authorised to run Apple-certified courses.2017 年 3 月，苹果公司在逢甲大学设立台湾首个 Apple 区域教育培训中心，使该校成为全台唯一获授权开设苹果认证课程的大学。

• In June 2018 the university acquired land in the Shuainan economic and trade park, and in March 2019 it signed the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma to design the new building there.2018 年 6 月，该校取得水湳经贸园区校地，2019 年 3 月与日本建筑师隈研吾签约设计新大楼。

• On 12 March 2019 FCU established the College of Creative Energy, and on 17 February 2025 the Kengo Kuma-designed Gongshan Building opened on the Shuainan site.2019 年 3 月 12 日成立创能学院，2025 年 2 月 17 日由隈研吾设计的共善楼在水湳校区落成启用。

• In 2024 the International School of Technology and Management began a partnership with the Australian Maritime College and the University of Tasmania to offer a Bachelor of Global Logistics and Maritime Management.2024 年，国际科技与管理学院与澳大利亚海事学院及塔斯马尼亚大学合作，开设全球物流与航运管理学士项目。

• FCU marked its 60th anniversary in 2021, by which time it had graduated more than 150,000 alumni and had become the largest university in central Taiwan by enrolment.逢甲大学于 2021 年迎来建校 60 周年，其时校友已超过 15 万人，并成为中部地区学生人数最多的大专院校。

Academics

• FCU's academic structure includes colleges of Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Engineering, Construction, Business Administration and Finance, together with newer interdisciplinary bodies such as the College of Creative Energy.逢甲大学的学术架构包括工程、商学、理学、人文社会科学、信息工程、建设、经营管理与金融等学院，并设有创能学院等较新的跨领域单位。

• The university comprises 33 academic departments, four separate graduate schools and three separate doctoral programmes, and offers 57 bachelor's degrees, 76 master's degrees and 14 doctoral degrees.全校设 33 个学系、4 个独立研究所与 3 个独立博士项目，共开设 57 个学士学位、76 个硕士学位与 14 个博士学位。

• Total enrolment exceeds 20,000 students across undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes, supported by about 2,200 faculty and staff, and the university counts more than 150,000 living alumni.本科、硕士与博士项目合计注册学生超过 2 万人，由约 2200 名教职员工支持。

• Thirty-seven specialised research centres operate on campus, including the Green Energy Development Center, the GIS Research Center, the Construction and Disaster Prevention Research Center, the Information and Communication Security Research Center and the Center for Tang Dynasty Culture.校内设有 37 个专门研究中心，包括绿色能源发展中心、地理信息系统研究中心与建设及防灾研究中心。

• The Apple Regional Training Center opened in 2017 makes FCU the only Taiwanese university authorised to deliver Apple-certified training courses.2017 年设立的 Apple 区域教育培训中心使逢甲成为全台唯一可开设苹果认证课程的大学。

• The GIS Research Center has served since 2009 as an Asian standards testing centre of the Open Geospatial Consortium, one of 20 official principal members.地理信息系统研究中心自 2009 年起担任开放地理空间信息联盟亚洲标准测试中心，是该联盟 20 个正式主要成员之一。

• The APEC Research Center for Advanced Biohydrogen Technology, established in 2008, coordinates cross-border work on biological hydrogen production.2008 年设立的 APEC 先进生物制氢技术研究中心协调跨境生物制氢研究。

• FCU is the only university in Taiwan admitted to the CDIO international engineering education initiative, which organises learning around conceiving, designing, implementing and operating real projects.逢甲是全台唯一加入 CDIO 国际工程教育计划的大学，该计划围绕构思、设计、实施与运作真实项目组织教学。

• AACSB accreditation, obtained by the College of Business in 2014, places its programmes among the less than five per cent of business schools worldwide with the credential.商学院于 2014 年取得的 AACSB 认证，使其项目跻身全球不足 5% 获此认证的商学院之列。

• The actuarial programme holds Validation by Educational Experience status from the Society of Actuaries, and only FCU, National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University hold the certification in Taiwan.精算学程获美国精算学会 VEE 认证，全台仅逢甲大学、台湾大学与政治大学三校取得该认证。

• FCU was the first university in Greater China to establish a banking and insurance department, in 1963, and an insurance graduate institute, in 1971.逢甲于 1963 年设立大中华地区首个银行保险学系，1971 年又设立首个保险研究所。

• Seventeen engineering departments have received IEET accreditation since 2004, and the architecture department became the first in Taiwan to be accredited in 2007.自 2004 年起已有 17 个工程学系通过 IEET 认证，建筑学系更于 2007 年成为全台首个获认证的建筑系。

• The university maintains partnerships with Purdue University, RMIT University, the University of Zaragoza and San Jose State University, among other institutions.该校与普渡大学、皇家墨尔本理工大学、萨拉戈萨大学及圣何塞州立大学等院校保持合作。
• In 2012 a materials science team led by Ko Tse-hao transferred wound-dressing and silver-loaded activated-carbon fibre technologies to a biomedical company.2012 年，柯泽豪博士领导的材料科学团队将伤口敷料与载银活性碳纤维技术转移给一家生医公司。

• In 2024 the International School of Technology and Management launched a Bachelor of Global Logistics and Maritime Management with the Australian Maritime College and the University of Tasmania.2024 年，国际科技与管理学院与澳大利亚海事学院、塔斯马尼亚大学合作开设全球物流与航运管理学士学位。

• FCU belongs to the Tsinghua Big Five Alliance, a group of institutions cooperating on scientific research supported by the National Science and Technology Council.逢甲大学是清华五校联盟成员，该联盟院校在国家科学技术委员会支持下开展科研合作。

• The library and departmental collections support 33 departments, and the university's publishing and research output is concentrated in engineering, business and construction.图书馆与各系资料室服务 33 个学系，学校的出版与研究成果集中于工程、商学与建设领域。

• Partnerships with industry include agreements with TSMC on semiconductor training, with Google on digital courses and with Microsoft's Micron on smart manufacturing talent.该校的产业合作包括与台积电共建半导体人才培训、与谷歌合办数字课程，以及与美光合作培养智能制造人才。

Campus

• The main campus lies in Xitun District, Taichung, and is bordered by the Fengjia Night Market, one of central Taiwan's busiest commercial districts, whose stalls line Wenhua Road beside the main gate, where several city bus routes stop.主校区位于台中市西屯区，紧邻逢甲夜市，后者是台湾中部最繁华的商圈之一，摊位沿文华路一直延伸到校门旁，多条市内公交线路在此停靠。

• The Fuxing campus was added in 1980 just north of the main site, providing extra classrooms and student housing, and the Zhongke campus opened in 2006 in the Central Taiwan Science Park, giving the university a presence in the region's semiconductor and precision-machinery cluster.福星校区于 1980 年增设，中科校区于 2006 年在中部科学工业园区启用，使学校进入该地区半导体与精密机械产业集群。

• The Shuannan campus began with land acquired in 2018, and its first major building, the Gongshan Building designed by Kengo Kuma, opened on 17 February 2025.水湳校区源于 2018 年取得的土地，其首座主要建筑是由隈研吾设计的共善楼，于 2025 年 2 月 17 日启用。

• The Chiu Feng Chia Memorial Hall commemorates the university's namesake and holds displays on his life, poetry and role in the 1895 resistance.丘逢甲先生纪念馆纪念该校命名人物，陈列其生平、诗作与 1895 年抗日事迹。

• The campus includes the main library, the Ren-Yan Building, the Science and Aeronautical Engineering Building, the Administration Building II and the Xue Si Building.校园主要建筑包括图书馆、人言大楼、科学与航天馆、行政二馆与学思楼。

• The Xitun site grew from 16,000 ping at its purchase to 69,800 ping, roughly 23 hectares, as buildings and playing fields were added in the 1960s.西屯校地由购置时的一万六千坪扩展至六万九千八百坪，约合 23 公顷，1960 年代陆续建成校舍与运动场。

• A sports centre and a combined sports field host physical education classes, intercollegiate fixtures and the annual tug-of-war that marks the anniversary.体育馆与综合体育场承担体育课、校际比赛以及校庆年度拔河赛。

• The campus sits inside the Fengjia commercial district, so dormitories, restaurants, bookshops and bus stops are concentrated within a few minutes' walk of the gates.校区处于逢甲商圈之内，宿舍、餐馆、书店与公交站点都集中在校门步行数分钟的范围内。

• Taichung's location in central Taiwan places the university about an hour by high-speed rail from both Taipei and Kaohsiung, a position it uses to recruit students from across the island.台中地处台湾中部，乘高铁约一小时可达台北与高雄，该校据此面向全岛招生。

Reputation

• FCU is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the tied final segment of the table rather than a single numbered position.逢甲大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端的并列区间而非单独名次。

• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it appears in the 1601-1800 band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位于 1601-1800 区间。

• It is ranked 2,056th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking, while it did not enter the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.该校在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 2056 名，但未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。

• In the 2023 QS World University Rankings FCU was placed in the 1201-1400 band, in the 2023 QS Asia ranking it was 271st to 280th, and the 2023 Times Higher Education world ranking placed it in the 1501+ band.在 2023 年 QS 世界大学排名中，逢甲位于 1201-1400 区间，2023 年 QS 亚洲大学排名则为第 271 至 280 名。

• QS ranked its economics programme 501st to 530th in 2023, and Times Higher Education placed its computer science subject in the 801+ band the same year.QS 将该校经济学领域在 2023 年列为第 501 至 530 名，泰晤士高等教育同年将其计算机科学学科列入 801+ 区间。

• In 2012 Times Higher Education placed FCU 89th among the world's top 100 emerging universities, and in 2013 it appeared among Asia's top 100 universities in the same publication.2012 年泰晤士高等教育将逢甲列为全球百大潜力大学第 89 名，2013 年又将其列入亚洲百强大学。

• In 2017 Times Higher Education named FCU the top private comprehensive university in Taiwan in its Best Universities in the Asia-Pacific ranking, two years after THE had placed it 658th in the world and 15th in Taiwan in 2015.2017 年，泰晤士高等教育在亚太最佳大学排名中将逢甲评为台湾私立综合大学第一。

• The Ministry of Education named FCU the national leader in its Programme for Promoting Teaching Excellence in 2016, after the university had topped the scheme seven times.教育部于 2016 年将逢甲列为教学卓越计划全国第一，此前该校已七度位居该计划首位。

• Global Views Monthly ranked FCU fourth among Taiwan's private universities in 2022, after placing it first among all private universities in 2021, and it was the highest-ranked private institution without a medical school.远见杂志 2022 年将逢甲列为台湾私立大学第四名，并在没有医学院的私立大学中排名第一。

• In 2019 Global Views placed FCU 11th among all comprehensive universities in Taiwan. In the 2016 Cheers survey of enterprise好感度, FCU ranked second nationally and first among private universities as the university most favoured by employers, after placing ninth nationally in the same survey in 2014.在 2016 年《Cheers》企业好感度调查中，逢甲位居全国第二、私立大学第一，是最受企业青睐的大学。

Student life

• The university motto is 忠勤誠篤, rendered as loyalty, diligence, sincerity and earnestness, and it is displayed on the university emblem together with the four characters.该校校训为「忠勤诚笃」，即忠于事、勤于学、诚于心、笃于行，校徽下方亦置此四字。

• The school colour is burgundy, used for academic gowns and caps, and the mascot is the Fighting Eagle, a 200-centimetre, 85-kilogram costume whose jersey number 61 recalls the founding year.校色为酒红色，学士袍与学士帽均用此色，吉祥物「逢甲战神鹰」高 200 厘米、重 85 公斤，球衣背号 61 象征 1961 年创校。

• A whole-school tug-of-war has been held at the anniversary sports meet each November since 1970 and remains the best-known collective tradition.自 1970 年校庆运动会起，全校拔河赛一直是该校最知名的集体传统。

• The university has held an annual arts month since 1989 and expanded it into the spring Arts Season, running from March to May, in 1999.该校自 1989 年起每年举办文艺月，1999 年扩大为每年 3 月至 5 月的文艺季。

• The Feng Yun Award, a guitar and singing competition organised by the Qin Yun Guitar Club, was founded in 1977 and is one of Taiwan's earliest folk-song contests, now in its 47th edition.由琴韵吉他社主办的「逢韵奖」吉他歌唱比赛创办于 1977 年，是台湾最早的学生民歌比赛之一，现已举办至第 47 届。

• Every December the university holds a Christmas lighting ceremony in front of the library, a fixture of the campus calendar.每年 12 月，学校都会在图书馆前举行圣诞点灯仪式，这已成为校园年历中的固定活动。

• About 149 student clubs operate in five categories, namely self-governance, academic, service, recreational and athletic, each coordinated by its own committee, and the Qin Yun Guitar Club, the Congenial Volunteer Team and the international service teams are among the best known.全校约有 149 个学生社团，分为自治、学艺、服务、康乐与体能五类，各设委员会协调事务。

• The student union was created in 1994, when the first president and councillors were elected on 3 May and inaugurated on 21 May, replacing the old student activity centre and representative council.学生会于 1994 年成立，首届会长与学生议员于 5 月 3 日选举产生、5 月 21 日就职，取代原有的学生活动中心与学生代表会。

• The Congenial Volunteer Team, founded in 2000, trains students in reception and guiding, and international service teams travel each summer to northern Thailand, Dongguan and Mongolia.亲善志工队成立于 2000 年，培训学生的接待与导览能力，国际服务队则每年暑期前往泰北、东莞与蒙古服务。

• Because the campus opens directly onto the Fengjia Night Market, student life is closely tied to one of Taiwan's most famous street-food districts, which grew up alongside the university.校园直接连通逢甲夜市，学生生活与台湾最著名的夜市街区紧密相连，该夜市正是随大学成长而兴起。

Notable people

• Qiu Niantai, son of Qiu Fengjia and a politician and educator, was the driving force behind the 1958 proposal and the choice of the Feng Chia name.丘念台是丘逢甲之子、政治家与教育家，是 1958 年筹设计划与「逢甲」校名的主要推动者。

• Hsiao I-shan, a historian and the first chairman of the board, helped assemble the founding group and steered the college through its early accreditation.历史学家萧一山出任首任董事长，协助组建创办团队并带领学院通过早期立案。

• Chen Pan-ling, the first president, presided over the opening ceremony on 15 November 1961 and the first year of teaching at Dakeng.首任院长陈泮岭主持了 1961 年 11 月 15 日的创校始业典礼与大坑校址第一年的教学。

• Gao Xin, a former vice minister of education who became the second president, acquired the Xitun land and later served as chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission.曾任教育部次长的高信出任第二任院长，购得西屯校地，后担任侨务委员会委员长。

• Chang Hsi-che, the third president, led the move to Xitun and the construction of the first teaching, administration, library and dormitory buildings.第三任院长张希哲主持迁校西屯，并推动首批教学、行政、图书馆与宿舍建筑的建设。

• Liao Liou-yi, a graduate, served as Minister of the Interior from 2008 to 2009.校友廖了以于 2008 年至 2009 年出任内政部长。

• Tseng Yung-chuan, a graduate, was Secretary-General of the Presidential Office from 2015 to 2016.校友曾永权于 2015 年至 2016 年担任总统府秘书长。

• Wu Hong-mo, a graduate, became Minister of the Public Construction Commission in 2018.校友吴宏谋于 2018 年出任公共工程委员会主任委员。

• Hsu Shu-hua, a graduate, served as a member of the Legislative Yuan and later became magistrate of Nantou County.校友许淑华曾任立法委员。

• Phil Chang, the singer and songwriter known for Mandarin ballads, is an alumnus of the university.以华语抒情歌曲知名的创作歌手张信哲是该校校友。

• Mei-Ling Shyu, a computer scientist known for multimedia data mining, is counted among FCU's alumni.以多媒体数据挖掘研究知名的计算机科学家许美玲被列为逢甲校友。

• Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect who designed the Shuannan campus's Gongshan Building, received an honorary doctorate from the university.设计水湳校区共善楼的日本建筑师隈研吾获该校授予名誉博士学位。