National Cheng Kung University

National Cheng Kung University, abbreviated NCKU, is a national public research university at 1 University Road in the East District of Tainan, China Taiwan, founded in January 1931 during the Japanese colonial period as the Tainan Technical College and named in honour of Zheng Chenggong, the commander credited with opening southern Taiwan to Chinese settlement.国立成功大学（简称 NCKU）是一所位于中国台湾台南市东区大学路 1 号的公立研究型大学，1931 年 1 月在日本殖民统治时期以台湾总督府台南高等工业学校之名创办，校名纪念开拓台湾南部的郑成功。

Organised into eleven colleges with more than 22,000 students, it is a founding member of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System and the only Taiwanese member of the Worldwide Universities Network, and it is placed equal 191st in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, long regarded as the leading university of southern Taiwan.学校设 11 个学院、在校学生逾 2.2 万人，是台湾综合大学系统创始成员，也是全球大学网络（WUN）唯一中国台湾成员，2027 年 QS 世界大学排名并列第 191，长期被视为台湾南部第一学府。

History

• The idea of a technical college in southern Taiwan was debated for nearly a decade, and in 1927 the fifth session of the Taiwan Governor-General's Council decided to establish a specialised industrial school to meet the demand for technically trained personnel.1927 年，台湾总督府评议会在普及实业教育的讨论中决定设置工业专门学校，结束了此前近十年关于在南台湾设立技术院校的争论。

• In 1928, after public criticism that the island already had enough commercial schools, the authorities closed the Tainan Higher Commercial School and decided to build an engineering school in its place.1928 年，鉴于舆论认为台湾已有足够商业学校，当局决定废止台南高等商业学校，改设一所工业专门学校。

• In 1929 the Tainan Prefecture government donated a site of 52,942 ping for the new campus, the plot that still forms the core of today's Cheng-Kung Campus.1929 年，台南州政府赠地 52,942 坪作为校址，即今成功校区所在地。

• The Tainan Technical College was formally founded in January 1931 under the Government-General of Taiwan, opening with departments of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and applied chemistry.1931 年 1 月，台湾总督府台南高等工业学校正式成立，初设机械工学科、电气工学科与应用化学科。

• The first entrance examination in March 1931 drew 409 candidates, of whom 25, 25 and 22 were admitted to the mechanical, electrical and applied chemistry departments respectively.1931 年 3 月的首届入学考试有 409 人应考，机械、电气、应用化学三科分别录取 25 人、25 人与 22 人。

• Wakatsuki Michitaka served as the first president from January 1931 to August 1941, presiding over the college through the wartime industrialisation of the 1930s.若槻道隆为首任校长，1931 年 1 月至 1941 年 8 月在任，主持 1930 年代战时工业化时期的校政。

• The college published its first anthem on 27 October 1932 and held its first graduation ceremony on 16 March 1934, when 60 students received their diplomas before an audience of about five hundred.学校 1932 年 10 月 27 日公布首首校歌，1934 年 3 月 16 日举行首届毕业典礼，60 名毕业生在约五百名观礼者面前获颁证书。

• The college expanded during the 1930s, splitting electrochemistry off as an independent department in 1940 and adding civil engineering and architecture in 1944, when it was renamed the Tainan Technical School.1930 年代学校持续扩张，1940 年电气化学组独立为科，1944 年增设土木科与建筑科，同年改称台南工业专门学校。

• After the retrocession of Taiwan, the Republic of China government took over the school in February 1946, renaming it the Taiwan Provincial Tainan Industrial Junior College and upgrading it later that year to the Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering with six engineering departments.台湾光复后，1946 年 2 月国民政府接收学校，改称台湾省立台南工业专科学校，同年年底升格为设六个工学系的台湾省立工学院。

• Wang Shih-an, the first postwar president, proposed in 1947 that the college be named after Sun Yat-sen or Chiang Kai-shek, but the naming question remained unresolved for a decade.战后首任校长王石安 1947 年曾建议以中山或中正为校名，命名问题却延续十年未有定论。

• Beginning in 1952 the college received American technical assistance through the Purdue-Formosa Project with Purdue University, in which the engineers Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Norris Shreve took part.1952 年起，学院通过普渡—福尔摩沙计划接受美国技术援助，普渡大学工程师莉莲·莫勒·吉尔布雷思与诺里斯·施里夫等参与其中。

• In 1956 the college became Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University, taking the name in honour of Zheng Chenggong and adding colleges of liberal arts, science and business alongside the existing College of Engineering.1956 年，学校改制为台湾省立成功大学，以「成功」纪念延平郡王郑成功，并在工学之外增设文理学院与商学院。

• Graduate education began with a master's programme in mechanical engineering in 1957 and the first doctorate, in electrical engineering, in 1967, while the liberal arts and science college was divided into separate colleges in 1969.研究所教育自 1957 年机械工程硕士班起步，1967 年设立首个博士班（电机工程），文理学院则于 1969 年拆分。

• The Kuang-Fu Campus was purchased from the Ministry of National Defense in 1966, and the Cheng-Hsing Campus, a former army artillery training site, followed in 1971.1966 年学校向国防部门购入光复校区，1971 年再取得原陆军炮兵训练场改建的成杏校区。

• In 1971 the institution was reorganised under its present name, National Cheng Kung University, with Ni Chao as the first president under the new charter.1971 年，学校改制为国立成功大学，倪超为新制首任校长。

• The College of Medicine was established in 1983 and admitted its first students the same year, and National Cheng Kung University Hospital was completed in 1988.1983 年医学院成立并招收首届学生，1988 年国立成功大学医学院附设医院落成。

• The university diversified rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s, adding the College of Social Sciences in 1997, the colleges of electrical engineering and computer science and of planning and design in 2003, and the College of Bioscience and Biotechnology together with the Douliu Campus in 2005.1990 年代至 2000 年代学校快速多元化：1997 年设社会科学院，2003 年设电机资讯学院与规划与设计学院，2005 年设生物科学与科技学院并获云林斗六校区。

• In 2002 it was selected as one of the first seven key research universities of the Ministry of Education, and in 2018 it became one of four research universities in the ministry's Higher Education Sprout Project.2002 年入选教育主管部门最初 7 所重点研究型大学，2018 年成为高等教育深耕计划中 4 所研究型大学之一。

• In 2011 it became a founding member of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System with National Sun Yat-sen University, National Chung Hsing University and National Chung Cheng University, and in 2016 it joined the Worldwide Universities Network.2011 年与中山大学、中兴大学、中正大学共创台湾综合大学系统，2016 年加入全球大学网络（WUN）。

• In 2020 the alumnus Miin Wu, founder of Macronix, endowed the Miin Wu School of Computing for data science and artificial intelligence, which moved into the new Macronix Building in November 2023.2020 年旺宏创办人吴敏求校友捐资设立敏求智慧计算学院，聚焦资料科学与人工智能，2023 年 11 月进驻旺宏馆。

• Under the national industrial innovation statute the university opened the Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing in 2021, running five degree programmes in chip design, packaging and testing, key materials and smart manufacturing with fifteen industry partners.2021 年依重点领域产学合作及人才培育创新条例设立智慧半导体及永续制造学院，开设芯片设计、封装测试、关键材料与智慧制造等学位学程，与 15 家企业产学合作。

• In 2023 the Institute of Space Systems Engineering was founded, and the former National Tainan Industrial High School was formally attached to the university as its affiliated senior high school after a ten-year process approved in 2013.2023 年学校设立太空系统工程研究所，原国立台南高工则历经 2013 年启动的十年改制程序，正式改隶为成大附属台南工业高级中等学校。

Academics

• The university is organised into eleven academic colleges, namely liberal arts, science, social sciences, management, engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, planning and design, bioscience and biotechnology, medicine, the Miin Wu School of Computing and the Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing.学校设 11 个学院，即文、理、社会科学、管理、工、电机资讯、规划与设计、生物科学与科技、医学院，以及敏求智慧计算学院与智慧半导体及永续制造学院。

• As of March 2025 the university reported 45 departments and 39 institutes, offering 47 bachelor's programmes, 120 master's programmes including 27 in-service ones, and 67 doctoral programmes.至 2025 年 3 月，学校设 45 个学系、39 个研究所，开办 47 个学士班、120 个硕士班（含 27 个在职专班）与 67 个博士班。

• Enrolment stood at 22,825 students in October 2022, comprising 12,010 undergraduates and 10,815 graduate students, while the faculty numbered 2,175 in February 2023 and 2,604 in 2025.2022 年 10 月在校学生 22,825 人，其中本科生 12,010 人、研究生 10,815 人；教师数 2023 年 2 月为 2,175 人，2025 年增至 2,604 人。

• Engineering is the traditional backbone, with the College of Engineering covering mechanical, chemical, civil, materials, environmental, aerospace, biomedical, hydraulic and ocean, naval architecture and surveying, while the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science spans computer science, microelectronics and communications.工学是传统骨干，工学院涵盖机械、化工、土木、材料、环境、航太、生物医学、水利海洋、船舶机电与测量空间资讯，电机资讯学院则横跨资讯、微电子与通讯工程。

• Medical education rests on the College of Medicine and National Cheng Kung University Hospital, whose seven bachelor's, 17 master's and seven doctoral programmes cover medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, public health and the biomedical sciences.医学教育以医学院与成大医院为支撑，设 7 个学士班、17 个硕士班与 7 个博士班，涵盖医学、牙医、药学、护理、公共卫生与生物医学领域。

• The College of Management is accredited by AACSB International, and the university's engineering programmes are certified by the Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan.管理学院获 AACSB 国际商管认证，工程学程通过中华工程教育学会（IEET）认证。

• Named research platforms include the TSMC-NCKU Joint Research Center, the NCKU-Delta Advanced Technology Research Center and the Y. S. Sun Green Building Research Center, which opened in 2011 as Taiwan's first zero-carbon demonstration building.具名科研平台包括台积电—成大联合研究中心、成大—台达先进技术研究中心，以及 2011 年启用的孙运璿绿色建筑研究中心，后者是中国台湾首座零碳示范建筑。

• The university is also associated with national facilities such as the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute, the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering and the Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory.学校还关联台湾半导体研究中心、国家地震工程研究中心与台南水工试验所等国家级研究设施。

• Undergraduate study requires at least 128 credits, including 28 credits of general education administered by the Center for General Education founded in 1996.学士学位要求修满至少 128 学分，其中通识 28 学分，由 1996 年设立的通识教育中心统筹。

• Since 2017 all first-year students have taken the field course Exploring Tainan, which by 2025 had involved more than 24,000 students across 97 communities and all 33 districts of the city.2017 年起一年级学生必修「探索台南」田野课程，至 2025 年已覆盖 97 个社区、全市 33 个行政区、逾 24,000 名学生。

• The library system, comprising the Main Library and the Medical Library, held about 2.41 million physical items in June 2026, including 1.46 million books, 443,623 bound journal volumes and 514,858 audiovisual items.图书馆系统由总图书馆与医学图书馆组成，2026 年 6 月馆藏约 241 万件实体资料，含图书 146 万册、装订期刊 443,623 册与影音资料 514,858 件。

• Its digital holdings include about 1.13 million electronic books, 116,291 electronic journals and 554 databases.数位馆藏包括电子书约 113 万种、电子期刊 116,291 种与资料库 554 个。

• The university runs dual-degree arrangements with KU Leuven and the European microelectronics centre imec launched in 2018, a dual-degree agreement with Purdue University signed the same year, and it hosts the Asian liaison office of TU Darmstadt opened in May 2019.学校 2018 年与鲁汶大学及欧洲微电子研究中心（imec）开设双学位学程，同年与普渡大学签署双学位协议，2019 年 5 月承接达姆施塔特工业大学亚洲联络办公室。

• Sixteen of its disciplines ranked in the global top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators in 2022, matching its count of 2020.2022 年学校 16 个学科进入基本科学指标（ESI）全球前 1%，与 2020 年数量持平。

• The Miin Wu School of Computing offers master's and doctoral programmes in intelligent computing and an industrial doctorate, while the semiconductor academy adds integrated-circuit design, packaging and testing, key materials and an executive research and development programme.敏求智慧计算学院开设智慧运算硕博士班与产业博士班，半导体学院则设芯片设计、封装测试、关键材料学程及高阶管理研发硕士在职专班。

• In 2024 the School of Public Health opened as an English-taught department aimed principally at international students.2024 年公共卫生学系成立，采全英语授课，主要面向国际学生招生。

Campus

• The main campus covers about 83 hectares in the East District of Tainan immediately east of the railway station, and the university's lands total some 186 hectares.校本部约 83 公顷，位于台南市东区、火车站正东方，全校校地合计约 186 公顷。

• It is divided into eight contiguous precincts, Cheng-Kung, Sheng-Li, Kuang-Fu, Cheng-Hsing, Tzu-Chiang, Ching-Yeh, Li-Hsing and Tung-Ning, strung out along University Road.校本部分为成功、胜利、光复、成杏、自强、敬业、力行、东宁八个相连校区，沿大学路展开。

• The 18.3-hectare Cheng-Kung Campus, planned between 1929 and 1934, is the oldest, and its former administration building of 1933 now houses the National Cheng Kung University Museum, a municipal monument and the first museum established by a university in Taiwan.成功校区约 18.3 公顷，1929 至 1934 年间规划，是最古老的校区；1933 年落成的原行政中心今为成大博物馆，属市定古迹，也是中国台湾首座大学自设博物馆。

• The 20.5-hectare Kuang-Fu Campus, acquired from the Ministry of National Defense in 1966, preserves three barracks of 1912 built for the Japanese Army's Second Taiwan Infantry Regiment, a national monument now used by the history department and the graduate institute of art studies.光复校区约 20.5 公顷，1966 年向国防部门购得，保留 1912 年建成的日本台湾步兵第二联队营舍三栋，属国定古迹，现由历史系与艺术研究所使用。

• Banyan Garden on the Kuang-Fu Campus is the university's best-known open space, its largest tree planted in 1923 by Crown Prince Hirohito, and the adjoining Cheng-Kung Lake was dug in 1970.光复校区榕园是学校最著名的开放空间，园中最大榕树 1923 年由皇太子裕仁手植，邻近的成功湖则开挖于 1970 年。

• On the Sheng-Li Campus the former main library of 1959, a landmark of postwar modernist architecture, was listed as a historic building in 2016 and renovated as the Future Venue after library services moved to the new main library in 2001.胜利校区 1959 年建成的旧总图书馆是战后现代主义建筑代表，2001 年图书馆迁入新总馆后，该建筑于 2016 年登录为历史建筑并整备为未来馆。

• Student housing clusters on the Sheng-Li and Tung-Ning campuses, where the former Victory Dormitory No. 5 was converted in 2003 into Yun-Ching Pavilion, the second student activity centre.学生宿舍集中于胜利与东宁校区，原胜利五舍 2003 年改建为芸青轩，即第二学生活动中心。

• Beyond the city campus the university runs the 26-hectare Kuei-Jen Campus in Guiren District for aerospace and earthquake engineering, the 72-hectare An-Nan Campus on former salt works for hydraulics and environmental research, and the Douliu Campus in Yunlin County, transferred in 2005.除市区校区外，学校在归仁区设 26 公顷的归仁校区发展航太与抗震工程，在安南区设约 72 公顷的安南校区（原盐田用地）从事水利与环境研究，2005 年再接收云林斗六校区。

• A planned 13-hectare Shalun Campus inside the Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City was approved in 2021 for smart health care and digital governance research, and new university buildings must reach at least the silver grade of Taiwan's Green Building Label.规划中的沙仑园区约 13 公顷，位于沙仑智慧绿能科学城，2021 年获核准一期建设，聚焦智慧医疗与数位治理；新建校舍须至少达到绿建筑标章银级。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings National Cheng Kung University is placed equal 191st in the world, improving from equal 203rd in the 2026 edition.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，成大并列全球第 191，较 2026 年版的并列第 203 上升。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed it in the 451-500 band in 2027, and the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities in the 401-500 band in 2026.泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 2027 年将学校列入 451-500 段，软科世界大学学术排名 2026 年列入 401-500 段。

• The US News Best Global Universities ranking of 2023 placed it 639th worldwide, and the QS tables of 2025 ranked it third among universities in Taiwan.2023 年 US News 全球最佳大学排名列第 639；2025 年 QS 排名中位列中国台湾第 3。

• It has been ranked the leading university of southern Taiwan and, in the Global Views Monthly survey of 2026, second among all universities in Taiwan behind National Taiwan University.学校长期被视为台湾南部第一学府，2026 年《远见》杂志调查中位列全台第 2，仅次于台湾大学。

• It has topped the same magazine's employer-preference survey for twelve consecutive years as of 2026.截至 2026 年，学校连续 12 年位居该杂志企业最爱大学毕业生调查首位。

• The 2025 Nature Index Research Leaders tables ranked it first among Taiwanese academic institutions in applied sciences on 2024 research output.2025 年自然指数（Nature Index）研究领袖榜单依 2024 年产出，将学校列为中国台湾应用科学领域第 1 的学术机构。

• A 2015 study documented 1,930 collaborative projects with industry between 2001 and 2009, spanning contract research, technology transfer and business incubation.2015 年一项研究统计，2001 至 2009 年间学校与企业合作项目达 1,930 件，涵盖委托研究、技术转移与创业育成。

• According to the OpenAlex index the university has produced 99,723 works that have been cited 5,907,419 times under the identifier I91807558.据 OpenAlex 索引，学校累计成果 99,723 项、被引 5,907,419 次，机构标识为 I91807558。

• Its engineering and applied-science tradition keeps it the academic anchor of southern Taiwan, with the Taiwan Comprehensive University System extending its reach in teaching and research cooperation.凭借工学与应用科学传统，学校稳居台湾南部学术重镇，并通过台湾综合大学系统拓展教研合作。

Student life

• The university's motto is the four-character maxim Knowledge through reason, rendered from the Chinese inscription that has guided the school since its founding.校训为「穷理致知」四字格言，英译「Knowledge through reason」，创校以来引领学风。

• The school anniversary falls on 11 November, the founding date of 1931, marked by exhibitions, Taiwan-Japan exchanges, alumni nights, award ceremonies and sports meets.校庆定于 11 月 11 日，即 1931 年创校之日，活动包含特展、台日交流会、校友之夜、颁奖与运动会。

• The emblem combines the royal poinciana, the symbolic flower of Tainan, with a bell bearing the characters for success, in the red and gold that are the university's colours.校徽以台南象征凤凰花与铸「成功」二字的编钟组成，采红金二色。

• The National Cheng Kung University Student Union is organised on the separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers, with a student assembly elected by the whole student body.成功大学学生会采行政、立法、司法三权分立架构，学生代表大会由全校学生选出。

• More than one hundred student clubs in six categories hold a club fair at the start of each semester, with offices in the activity centres of the Kuang-Fu and Sheng-Li campuses.全校 100 余个社团分属综合、学艺、康乐、服务、体能、联谊六类，每学期初举办社团博览会，办公室设于光复与胜利校区的学生活动中心。

• The NCKU Bicycle Festival and department fair, started in 2008, has become the southern counterpart of National Taiwan University's azalea festival, since cycling is the everyday means of travel between the eight precincts.创办于 2008 年的成大单车节院系博览会因学生以单车通勤八个校区而得名，与台大杜鹃花节并称「北杜鹃、南单车」。

• The Intercollegiate Guitar Invitational, founded by the university in 1998, is the largest inter-university guitar competition in Taiwan, while the Phoenix Tree Literature Award and the Phoenix Drama Festival, begun in 1978, anchor the literary calendar of the Chinese department.1998 年由学校创办的大学院校校际吉他音乐邀请赛（大吉盃）是中国台湾规模最大的大学吉他竞赛，中文系 1978 年创办的凤凰树文学奖与凤凰剧展则构成校园文学主轴。

• The student forum series running since 2005 invites masters from all fields to dialogue directly with students, and the NCKU Badminton Open is a long-standing sporting fixture.2005 年起举办的成大学生论坛邀各校学生与大师对话，成大羽球公开赛则是历史悠久的校际赛事。

Notable people

• Founding-era figures include the first president Wakatsuki Michitaka, who led the Tainan Technical College from 1931 to 1941, and Wang Shih-an, the first president after the war, who served from 1946 to 1951 and opened the naming debate.创校期人物包括首任校长若槻道隆，1931 至 1941 年主持台南高等工业学校校政；战后首任校长王石安 1946 至 1951 年在任，开启命名之议。

• Samuel C. C. Ting entered the mechanical engineering department in 1955 and left for the United States in 1956, going on to share the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics with Burton Richter for the discovery of the J/psi particle.丁肇中 1955 年考入机械系，1956 年赴美深造，后因发现 J/psi 粒子与伯顿·里克特分享 1976 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Paul Chu, a 1962 graduate in physics, discovered high-temperature superconductivity above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen in 1987 and received the US National Medal of Science and the Comstock Award in 1988, later serving as president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.1962 年物理系校友朱经武 1987 年发现液氮沸点以上的高温超导，1988 年获美国国家科学奖章与康斯托克奖，后任香港科技大学校长。

• Michael Lai, a virologist elected to Academia Sinica in 1992 and winner of the Presidential Science Prize in 2013, was president of the university from 2007 to 2011.病毒学家赖明诏 1992 年当选中央研究院院士、2013 年获总统科学奖，2007 至 2011 年任成大校长。

• Research alumni include Tze-Chiang Chen, an IBM Fellow and vice president at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and Ken P. Chong, director of the mechanics and materials division of the US National Science Foundation.科研界校友包括 IBM 院士、托马斯·沃森研究中心副总裁（Tze-Chiang Chen），以及美国国家科学基金会力学与材料部主任（Ken P. Chong）。

• Public-life alumni include Mao Chi-kuo, who headed the island's executive authorities from 2014 to 2016, and Wu Po-hsiung, mayor of Taipei from 1988 to 1990 and later chairman of the Kuomintang.政界校友包括 2014 至 2016 年任台湾地区行政机构负责人的毛治国，以及 1988 至 1990 年任台北市长、其后任中国国民党主席的吴伯雄。

• Chen Liang-gee, who took charge of science and technology affairs between 2016 and 2020, and Mike Frerichs, treasurer of the State of Illinois, are also graduates of the university.2016 至 2020 年主管科技事务的陈良基与美国伊利诺伊州财政部长迈克·弗里里克斯亦为该校校友。

• Bruce Cheng, a 1959 graduate in electrical engineering, founded the power-electronics maker Delta Electronics and long served as its chairman.1959 年电机系校友郑崇华创办电力电子厂商台达电子，并长期担任董事长。

• Miin Wu, a 1970 graduate in electrical engineering, founded Macronix and endowed the Miin Wu School of Computing in 2020.1970 年电机系校友吴敏求创办旺宏电子，2020 年捐资设立敏求智慧计算学院。

• Chu-yuan Lee, who studied at the university, designed Taipei 101, and the architect and educator Han Pao-teh graduated from its architecture department in 1958.建筑师李祖原曾就读本校，设计了台北 101 大楼；建筑师与建筑教育家汉宝德 1958 年毕业于建筑系。

• The writers Cheng Nan-jung and Pai Hsien-yung both began in engineering at the university before turning to the humanities and becoming prominent public intellectuals.作家郑南榕与白先勇均先就读工科后转向人文，终成著名公共知识分子与文学家。