National Taiwan University (NTU)

National Taiwan University (NTU, Chinese: 國立臺灣大學) is a public national research university in Taipei, Taiwan, and is the island's oldest and most comprehensive institution of higher education, tracing its origins to Taihoku Imperial University of 1928.国立台湾大学（英文：National Taiwan University，简称 NTU；中文：國立臺灣大學）是位于台湾台北市的公立国立研究型大学，也是台湾历史最悠久、规模最完整的综合性高等学府，其前身可追溯到 1928 年创办的台北帝国大学。

It was founded by the Japanese colonial government on 16 March 1928 as one of the empire's universities, was taken over by the Republic of China on 15 November 1945 and reorganised under its present name, with Lo Tsung-lo serving as the first president.该校由日本殖民政府于 1928 年 3 月 16 日创办，为当时日本帝国大学之一；1945 年 11 月 15 日由中华民国政府接收并改名为国立台湾大学，罗宗洛出任首任校长。

As of the 2025-26 academic year the university comprises 17 colleges and 3 professional schools with about 34,935 students, and it is placed 54th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and 126th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.截至 2025 至 2026 学年，该校设有 17 个学院与 3 个专业学院，学生约 34,935 人；在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 54 位，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 126 位。

History

• The university's teaching hospital traces its origin to the Taiwan Hospital, which opened in the Dadaocheng district of Taipei on 18 June 1895 under Japanese rule and became the clinical arm of the future institution.该校附属医院可追溯到 1895 年 6 月 18 日在日治时期台北大稻埕启用的台湾病院，它后来成为这所学校的临床机构。
• In 1922 the Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, Den Kenjiro, proposed establishing an imperial university in Taipei, and in 1925 his successor Izawa Takio allocated a preliminary budget for a comprehensive institution.1922 年，日本台湾总督田健治郎提出在台北设立一所帝国大学的构想；1925 年，其继任者伊泽多喜男为筹办一所综合性大学拨出预备预算。
• Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi presented the establishment bill to the cabinet on 25 February 1928, the government passed it on 16 March, and Taihoku Imperial University came into force the following day with Dr. Taira Shidehara as its first president.1928 年 2 月 25 日，首相田中义一向内阁提交设立法案，政府于 3 月 16 日通过，台北帝国大学次日生效，由币原坦博士出任首任总长。
• The new university began on the grounds of the Taihoku Senior School of Agriculture and Forestry, which became its main campus, and opened with the Faculty of Literature and Politics and the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, enrolling only 59 students.新校以台北高等农林学校校地为基础开办，该处成为其校总区，成立时设有文政学部与理农学部，首届学生仅 59 人。
• The first freshman class took its oath on 30 April 1928, and the first joint commencement for the university and the Technical College of Agriculture and Forestry was held on 25 March 1931.首届新生于 1928 年 4 月 30 日宣誓入学；1931 年 3 月 25 日举行了大学与农林专门部的首次联合毕业典礼。
• The Faculty of Medicine and its medical college were established in 1935, and an affiliated preparatory course was added in April 1941 to supply entrants for the imperial university.医学部与医学专门部于 1935 年成立；1941 年 4 月又增设附属预科，为这所帝国大学输送生源。
• In March 1943 the Faculty of Science and Agriculture was divided into separate faculties of science and of agriculture, and in May of the same year the Faculty of Engineering was created.1943 年 3 月，理农学部分设为理学部与农学部；同年 5 月，工学部成立。
• By 1945, on the eve of the takeover, the university had grown to five faculties with 114 academic chairs and 382 students, taught on the German professorial-chair model introduced under Japanese administration.到 1945 年接收前夕，该校已扩展为 5 个学部、114 个讲座、382 名学生，采用日治时期引入的德国式讲座制教学。
• After the Second World War the Republic of China government completed its takeover on 15 November 1945, renamed the school National Taiwan University and appointed Dr. Lo Tsung-lo as the first president.第二次世界大战结束后，中华民国政府于 1945 年 11 月 15 日完成接收，将学校更名为国立台湾大学，并任命罗宗洛博士为首任校长。
• The old Faculty of Literature and Politics was split into the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Law, so that the university opened with six colleges, namely Liberal Arts, Law, Science, Medicine, Engineering and Agriculture, holding 22 departments and more than 500 students.原文政学部被拆分为文学院与法学院，于是学校开学时共有文学、法、理、医、工、农 6 个学院、22 个学系、500 余名学生。
• In January 1949 Fu Ssu-nien became the fourth president and set about recruiting renowned scholars, expanding the library and installing a liberal, autonomous academic culture that shaped the university's later character.1949 年 1 月，傅斯年出任第 4 任校长，着手延揽著名学者、扩充图书设备，并确立自由与自治的学术风气，塑造了该校此后的品格。
• On 6 April 1949 the Four Six Incident saw military police enter the campuses of the university and the Taiwan Provincial Normal College, and Fu Ssu-nien intervened to insist that students must not be harmed without legal evidence.1949 年 4 月 6 日爆发的「四六事件」中，军警进入该校与省立师范学院的校园；傅斯年出面交涉，坚持在没有法律证据的情况下不得伤害学生。
• Fu Ssu-nien died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 20 December 1950 at the age of 55 during a session of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly, and he was buried on the campus beside a memorial garden and bell tower.1950 年 12 月 20 日，傅斯年在台湾省参议会答询时因脑溢血逝世，享年 55 岁，葬于校园内，其墓旁建有纪念亭与钟亭。
• The Fu Bell was cast in 1951 on a proposal by a physics student, Cui Bo-quan, through the ordnance works of the joint logistics command, and it was recast in 1964 after a crack appeared.1951 年，物理系学生崔柏铨提议铸造纪念钟，经联合勤务总司令部兵工署协助铸成；1964 年钟面出现裂痕后，又重铸了新钟。
• On 17 December 1963 the university approved the lyrics of its school song, drafted by Shen Kang-po and set to music by the linguist and composer Yuen Ren Chao, and the song was formally promulgated on 5 December 1968.1963 年 12 月 17 日，校方通过由沈刚伯作词、语言学家兼作曲家赵元任谱曲的校歌；该歌于 1968 年 12 月 5 日正式颁行。
• The university opened its first doctoral programme in the Department of Chemistry in 1966, established a new-style evening division in 1967 and founded the College of Management in 1987.1966 年，该校化学系开设了第一个博士班；1967 年开办新制夜间部；1987 年成立管理学院。
• The College of Public Health was founded in 1993, the College of Electrical Engineering in 1997, and in 1999 the College of Law was reconstituted as the College of Social Sciences while the Department of Law became the new College of Law.公共卫生学院于 1993 年成立，电机学院于 1997 年成立；1999 年，原法学院更名为社会科学院，法律系则升格为新的法律学院。
• The College of Agriculture was renamed the College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture in 2002 and the College of Life Science was added in 2003, extending the university across the life sciences.农学院于 2002 年更名为生物资源暨农学院；2003 年又增设生命科学院，把学科版图扩展至生命科学领域。
• In January 2015 the university allied with National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and National Taiwan Normal University, and on 31 March 2016 the Ministry of Education approved the alliance as the National Taiwan University System.2015 年 1 月，该校与国立台湾科技大学、国立台湾师范大学结盟；2016 年 3 月 31 日，教育部正式核定该联盟改组成立「国立台湾大学系统」。
• Under Taiwan's 2020 innovation act on industry-academic cooperation, the university opened the new-style International College and the College of Advanced Technology in 2021, the latter training semiconductor talent with partners such as TSMC and MediaTek.依据台湾 2020 年颁布的国家重点领域产学合作创新条例，该校于 2021 年成立国际学院与重点科技研究学院，后者与台积电、联发科技等伙伴合作培养半导体人才。
• Chen Wen-chang became the thirteenth president on 8 January 2023, and on 6 May 2024 the university unveiled the International College of Political Economy at its Xuzhou Road campus as Taiwan's first all-English graduate college of political economy.陈文章于 2023 年 1 月 8 日出任第 13 任校长；2024 年 5 月 6 日，该校在徐州路校区为国际政经学院揭牌，这是全台第一个以政治经济为重点、以全英语授课的研究学院。

Academics

• The university is organised into 17 colleges and 3 professional schools covering the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, engineering, agriculture, management, public health, electrical engineering and computer science, law and life science.该校设有 17 个学院与 3 个专业学院，涵盖人文学、社会科学、自然科学、医学、工学、农学、管理学、公共卫生、电机资讯、法律与生命科学等领域。
• As of the 2025-26 academic year it offers 61 departments and 154 graduate institutes, alongside professional schools of dentistry, veterinary medicine and pharmacy, making it the most complete comprehensive university in Taiwan.截至 2025 至 2026 学年，该校设有 61 个学系与 154 个研究所，并有牙医、兽医与药学三个专业学院，是台湾学科最完整的综合性大学。
• In 2025 the university enrolled 34,935 students, comprising 17,568 undergraduates, 13,477 master's students and 3,890 doctoral students, a near one-to-one balance between undergraduates and postgraduates.2025 年，该校在校学生 34,935 人，其中大学部 17,568 人、硕士班 13,477 人、博士班 3,890 人，本科生与研究生人数接近一比一。
• In 2023 the university employed 2,099 full-time and 2,301 part-time faculty members together with 2,118 administrative staff, giving a research-intensive profile built around its teaching staff.2023 年，该校有专任教师 2,099 人、兼任教师 2,301 人以及职员 2,118 人，形成以师资为核心的研究型办学结构。
• Its historic strengths lie in medicine, electrical engineering and computer science, chemistry, materials science, civil engineering, the agricultural and life sciences, and the humanities, fields in which it has long led research in Taiwan.该校的传统优势在于医学、电机资讯、化学、材料科学、土木工程、农业与生命科学以及人文学科，这些领域长期在台湾居于领先地位。
• The university operates more than 50 national-level and university-level research centres spanning its colleges, supporting work from condensed matter physics to biotechnology, biodiversity and Asian studies.该校设有 50 余个国家级或校级研究中心，分布于各学院，支撑从凝聚态物理到生物技术、生物多样性及亚洲研究的各项工作。
• The College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science traces its own history to the College of Electrical Engineering of 1997 and hosts strong programmes in integrated circuits, communications and information security.电机资讯学院的历史可追溯到 1997 年成立的电机学院，在集成电路、通信与信息安全等方向拥有强势学科。
• Because of the innovation act and industry partnerships, the College of Advanced Technology runs master's and doctoral programmes in integrated circuit design and automation, device materials and heterogeneous integration, and nanoengineering.依托创新条例与产业合作，重点科技研究学院开设了集成电路设计与自动化、元件材料与异质整合、纳米工程与科学等硕博士学位学程。
• The International College of Political Economy, opened in 2024, is the university's first all-English graduate college and teaches with ties to think tanks, industry and leading universities such as Waseda University, Harvard University, Georgetown University and Sciences Po.2024 年揭牌的国际政经学院是该校首个全英语研究生学院，其教学与智库、产业及早稻田大学、哈佛大学、乔治城大学和巴黎政治学院等名校建立联系。
• The university library system, begun with the Taihoku Imperial University Library in March 1928, now holds more than four million volumes and items, some 45,000 journal titles and over 50,000 rare Chinese and Western books.该校图书馆系统始于 1928 年 3 月的台北帝国大学附属图书馆，现藏图书与各类资料逾 400 万册件、期刊约 4.5 万种、中外文古籍善本逾 5 万件。
• The university hospital is one of the largest medical centres in Taiwan and serves as the principal clinical teaching base for the College of Medicine, training physicians and conducting biomedical research.台大医院是台湾规模最大的医学中心之一，也是医学院最重要的临床教学基地，承担医师培养与生物医学研究。
• Several of its subject programmes are recognised among the best in Greater China, and its literary, historical, medical and engineering departments have long set the standard for higher education in Taiwan.该校的若干学科被认为是大中华区最优秀者之一，其文学、历史、医学与工程等系所长期为台湾高等教育树立标准。
• Research income and faculty grants are channelled through the university's own endowment-style fund, which stood at about NT38.7 billion in June 2024, and its 2025 budget reached roughly NT21.7 billion.该校的研究经费与专任教师补助通过类似捐赠基金的校务基金运作，该基金在 2024 年 6 月约为新台币 386.99 亿元，2025 年度预算约达新台币 216.57 亿元。
• The university maintains academic exchange and dual-degree arrangements with hundreds of partner institutions worldwide and is a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and the Association of East Asian Research Universities.该校与全球数百所伙伴院校保持学术交流与双联学位安排，并且是环太平洋大学联盟与东亚研究型大学协会的成员。
• Admission is highly competitive, with entrance through Taiwan's multi-channel college admission system and graduate programmes that draw applicants from across Asia and the world.该校入学竞争激烈，本科生通过台湾多元入学渠道选拔，研究生课程则吸引来自亚洲及世界各地的申请者。

Campus

• The main campus, known as the Shuiyuan and general campus, lies at No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road in the Da'an District of central Taipei, beside the Gongguan commercial area.主校总区位于台北市中心大安区罗斯福路四段一号，紧邻公馆商圈。
• The university's land is scattered across Greater Taipei and beyond, including the Xuzhou Road campus, the Chengzhong campus, the university hospital, and sites in Hsinchu, Yunlin, Nantou and the central mountains.该校校地散布于大台北及更广地区，包括徐州路校区、城中校区、附设医院，以及新竹、云林、南投与中部高山地区的多处校地。
• Its total plot area was recorded at about 141.15 hectares within Greater Taipei with a building area of 130.97 hectares in 2023, while its wider holdings include experimental forests and mountain farms.2023 年，其在台北地区的校地总面积约为 141.15 公顷、建筑面积 130.97 公顷，而更广的校产还包括实验林与山地农场。
• The Royal Palm Boulevard, planted with tall coconut palms, runs from the historic university gate to the main library and is the best-known symbol of the campus.种满高大椰子树的椰林大道从历史悠久的校门直通总图书馆，是该校最著名的校园象征。
• The new main library, designed by the Shen Tsu-hai architectural firm and opened on 14 November 1998, is a Baroque-styled building with arched windows and a clock tower at the head of the boulevard.新总图书馆由沈祖海建筑师事务所设计，1998 年 11 月 14 日落成启用，是一座带拱窗与钟塔的巴洛克风格建筑，坐落于椰林大道尽头。
• The Fu Bell pavilion stands in front of the administration building along the boulevard and rings twenty-one times at each class change, echoing Fu Ssu-nien's saying that a day has only twenty-one hours.傅钟亭位于椰林大道旁的行政大楼前，每次上下课敲响二十一下，呼应傅斯年「一天只有二十一个小时」的名言。
• The Drunken Moon Lake, the Fu Garden with its Greek-style memorial pavilion, and the ecological pond are among the twelve celebrated scenes that students associate with campus life.醉月湖、设有希腊式纪念亭的傅园以及生态池，都是学生心目中的「校园十二景」之一。
• Beyond Taipei, the university manages the Xitou experimental forest in Nantou and the Meifeng high-mountain experimental farm, used for forestry, agriculture and ecology research.在台北之外，该校还经营位于南投的溪头实验林以及梅峰山地实验农场，用于林业、农业与生态研究。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 National Taiwan University is placed 54th in the world, making it the highest-ranked university in Taiwan.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，国立台湾大学位列世界第 54 位，是台湾排名最高的大学。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places the university at 126th in the world, confirming its standing among the leading research universities of Asia.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将该校列为世界第 126 位，印证其作为亚洲领先研究型大学的地位。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 233rd in the world, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2026 places it in the 201 to 300 band.2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 233 位；2026 年世界大学学术排名将其列入 201 至 300 区间。
• In the QS World University Rankings by Subject of 2025 the university was ranked 29th in Modern Languages and 34th in Library and Information Management, while the 2026 edition placed its Classics and Ancient History at sixth in the world.在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，该校现代语言位列第 29 位、图书馆与信息管理位列第 34 位；2026 年该榜单更把其古典与古代史列为世界第 6 位。
• The OpenAlex database attributes 182,196 works to the university with 14,783,945 citations, reflecting a large and internationally cited research output.OpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 182,196 篇成果，被引用 14,783,945 次，反映其庞大且具国际影响力的科研产出。
• Alumni and faculty of the university have earned one Nobel Prize, with the chemist Yuan T. Lee winning the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on reaction dynamics.该校校友与教师共获得 1 项诺贝尔奖，化学家李远哲因在反应动力学方面的研究荣获 1986 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• The computer scientist Andrew Yao, a graduate of the university, received the Turing Award in 2000 for his contributions to cryptography and computation, and remains the only ethnic Chinese Turing laureate.该校毕业生、计算机科学家姚期智因在密码学与计算理论方面的贡献，于 2000 年获得图灵奖，至今仍是唯一获此奖的华人学者。
• The chemists Chi-Huey Wong and Shang Fa Yang won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2014 and the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 1991 respectively, adding to the university's record of major scientific honours.化学家翁启惠与植物学家杨祥发分别获得 2014 年沃尔夫化学奖与 1991 年沃尔夫农业奖，为该校再添重量级科学荣誉。
• QS ranks the university first in Taiwan and within the top 100 in the world in several broad subject areas, and it is consistently the country's leading institution in employer reputation.QS 将该校列为台湾第一，并在若干大学科领域位居世界前 100，在雇主声誉方面也长期稳居全台首位。

Student life

• The university's motto, 敦品勵學，愛國愛人, rendered as Integrity, Diligence, Fidelity and Compassion, was articulated by Fu Ssu-nien at the fourth anniversary celebration in 1949 as a charge to students and staff.该校校训「敦品励学，爱国爱人」（英文：Integrity，Diligence，Fidelity，Compassion）出自傅斯年 1949 年在第四次校庆纪念会上对师生的训勉。
• The school song, with lyrics by Shen Kang-po and music by Yuen Ren Chao, was promulgated in 1968 and is sung at ceremonies and reunions across the university.该校校歌由沈刚伯作词、赵元任谱曲，1968 年正式颁行，在校内各类典礼与校友聚会中传唱。
• The university emblem, chosen in a competition held from 1981 and announced by president Yu Chao-chung on 15 November 1982, combines the Fu Bell, the royal palm, the plum blossom and a thunder-pattern border.该校校徽源自 1981 年举办的征选，1982 年 11 月 15 日由校长虞兆中公布，图案融合傅钟、大王椰子树、梅花与雷纹边框。
• The Fu Bell has become a gathering place for student advocacy, including the campus campaigns for free speech in 1988 and 1989 and the New May Fourth Movement of 2018 defending university autonomy.傅钟前已成为学生倡议活动的聚集地，其中包括 1988 与 1989 年争取校园言论自由的行动，以及 2018 年捍卫大学自治的「新五四运动」。
• Student folklore holds that counting the bell's twenty-one strikes or studying beneath it will bring misfortune, a superstition that has become part of campus culture despite official denials.校园流传着一种说法：把傅钟的二十一下敲完、或在钟下读书会招来厄运，尽管校方一再否认，这一迷信仍成为校园文化的一部分。
• Students take part in 37 intercollegiate sports teams and a wide range of clubs and societies, from debating and drama to astronomy, alongside a lively bilingual campus media scene.学生参与 37 支校级运动代表队，以及辩论、戏剧、天文等林林总总的社团，同时校园中英双语媒体也十分活跃。
• The anniversary falls on 15 November, the day the university was taken over and renamed, and each year it is marked by an academic and cultural programme organised by the students and faculties.校庆日为 11 月 15 日，即该校被接收并更名之日，每年都由学生与各学院筹办学术与文化活动来庆祝。
• The main campus sits beside the Gongguan shopping district and the Taipei MRT network, and its libraries, sports fields and museums make it an active urban centre as well as an academic one.主校总区紧邻公馆商圈与台北捷运网络，其图书馆、运动场与博物馆使之既是学术重镇，也是活跃的城市生活空间。

Notable people

• Taira Shidehara, a scholar of agricultural science, was the first president of Taihoku Imperial University from 1928 and presided over its opening as one of Japan's imperial universities.币原坦是农学学者，自 1928 年起担任台北帝国大学首任总长，主持该校作为日本帝国大学之一的开办。
• Lo Tsung-lo, the plant physiologist appointed after the war, served as the first president of National Taiwan University following the takeover of 15 November 1945.植物生理学家罗宗洛在 1945 年 11 月 15 日接收后被任命为国立台湾大学首任校长。
• Fu Ssu-nien, a historian and former leader of the May Fourth Movement who founded the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, was president from 1949 until his death in 1950 and shaped the university's liberal ethos.历史学家、五四运动学生领袖之一、中央研究院历史语言研究所创办人傅斯年，1949 至 1950 年任校长直至去世，塑造了该校的自由学风。
• Yuan T. Lee, a chemistry graduate of 1956, shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of cross-molecular beam techniques that revealed the dynamics of chemical reactions.1956 年化学系毕业生李远哲因发展交叉分子束技术、揭示化学反应动力学，共同获得 1986 年诺贝尔化学奖。
• Andrew Yao, who studied physics and graduated in 1967, won the Turing Award in 2000 for his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation and cryptography and later taught at Tsinghua University.1967 年物理系毕业的姚期智因在计算理论与密码学方面的基础性贡献，于 2000 年获得图灵奖，其后任教于清华大学。
• Chi-Huey Wong, an alumnus of the departments of agricultural chemistry and biochemical science, received the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2014 and served as president of Academia Sinica.农业化学系与生化科学研究所校友翁启惠，于 2014 年获得沃尔夫化学奖，并曾任中央研究院院长。
• Lee Teng-hui, who graduated in agricultural economics in 1949, served as President of the Republic of China from 1988 to 2000 and was the country's first native-born head of state.1949 年农业经济系毕业生李登辉，1988 至 2000 年任中华民国总统，是该国首位本省籍的最高领导人。
• Ma Ying-jeou, a law graduate of 1972, served as President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016, and Tsai Ing-wen, a law graduate of 1978, held the same office from 2016 to 2024.1972 年法律系毕业生马英九于 2008 至 2016 年任中华民国总统；1978 年法律系毕业生蔡英文于 2016 至 2024 年任同一职务。
• Chen Shui-bian, a law graduate of 1974, was President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008 and was the first member of the Democratic Progressive Party to hold the office.1974 年法律系毕业生陈水扁于 2000 至 2008 年任中华民国总统，是首位出自民主进步党的国家元首。
• Barry Lam, an alumnus who built one of Taiwan's first microcomputers, founded and chairs Quanta Computer, one of the world's largest manufacturers of notebook computers.校友林百里打造了台湾最早的个人电脑之一，并创办并担任广达电脑董事长，该公司是全球最大的笔记本电脑制造商之一。
• Min Kao, a graduate of the electrical engineering department, co-founded Garmin, the international satellite navigation and wearable technology company, and has been a leading benefactor of the university.电机工程系毕业生高民环共同创办了国际卫星导航与穿戴设备公司 Garmin，并长期担任该校的重要捐助人。
• Chang-Lin Tien, a mechanical engineering alumnus, became the first Asian American chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, serving from 1990 to 1997.机械工程系校友田长霖于 1990 至 1997 年出任加州大学伯克利分校校长，是该校首位亚裔校长。