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National Dong Hwa University (Chinese: 國立東華大學; pinyin: Guólì Dōnghuá Dàxué; NDHU) is a public research university in Hualien, Taiwan.

The university is organized into eight colleges, 44 academic departments, and 56 graduate institutes, enrolling around 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, including over 1,000 international students.

NDHU is a member of six Taiwan's European Union Centre, a Think Tank for European Studies. With Taiwan's oldest school for Indigenous Studies, NDHU College of Indigenous Studies is among the leading institutes of its kind in Asia.

NDHU has Taiwan's fifth highest endowment among national universities and NDHU Library holds more than two million volumes and is eighth largest academic library in Taiwan. The university's main campus is located in Shoufeng, in the northern half of Hualien County. Encompassing an area of 251 hectares (620 acres), the main campus houses almost all colleges and research institutes except the Graduate Institute of Marine Biology, which is jointly founded in National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium.

History

Foundation

National Dong Hwa University was established in 1994 in Shoufeng. It was the first university in Taiwan founded after the Martial law period (1949–1987). Mu Tzung-Tsann, the vice-chancellor of California State University, Los Angeles, served as the university's first president. He resigned from his vice-chancellorship and relinquished his green card in order to oversee the university's planning, during which he consulted the senior executives of multiple U.S. universities. Alan Kreditor, vice president of the University of Southern California, was among those who advised the university's planning.

National Hualien University of Education (1947–2008)

The National Hualien University of Education (Commonly known as Hua-Shih; 花師) was one of Taiwan's oldest normal schools. It was established in 1947 in Hualien City as the Taiwan Provincial Hualien Normal School (TPHNS) as part of the country's reconstruction and development after World War II.

In 2008, with financial support from the Ministry of Education, National Dong Hwa University merged with the National Hualien University of Education.

Present

In 2018, Chao Han-Chieh, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society, became the university's fourth president.

Campuses

Shoufeng

NDHU's main campus, Shoufeng Campus, is situated in the rural town of Shoufeng, Hualien. It is located in Papaya Creek in East Rift Valley, surrounded by a mountain range, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Taroko National Park, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Hualien City.

NDHU's 251-hectare (620-acre) campus is the largest flat-land university campus in Taiwan. The campus was designed in a postmodern style by architect Charles Moore, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

The Shoufeng campus's academic buildings—including the campus library, art museum, concert hall, and arts workshop—are located at the center of campus. The NDHU Concert Hall, a part of the College of The Arts, is the largest performing arts hall in eastern Taiwan. Adjacent to the academic buildings section are two student dormitories and campus athletics facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools, athletic field, baseball field, basketball court, tennis court, volleyball court, kayak, and facilities for Project Adventure.

In 2016, NDHU ran a solar university project, constructing the first batch of rooftop photovoltaic solar panels. As of 2021, the solar energy covers 40% of NDHU's annual electric usage.

Meilun

The Meilun campus was the main campus of National Hualien University of Education before it was merged with NDHU. The 12.26-hectare (30.3-acre) campus is located in Meilun District of Hualien City, near Qixingtan Beach. In 2020, NDHU collaborated with Lee Yuen-Cheng, founder of Boston International Experimental Education Institution and an alumnus of NDHU, to establish the first international school on campus: Hualien International School.

Pingtung

The Graduate Institute of Marine Biology is based at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (NMMBA) in Chechung Township in Pingtung County, standing in Kenting National Park and facing the Taiwan Strait in the west. It houses the National Museum of Marine Biology.

Organization and administration

NDHU has over 10,000 students and confers undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in multiple fields. The university is organized into 39 departments, 56 graduate institutes, 8 colleges, and over 70 research centers.

Academic organizations

NDHU is organized into seven academic colleges and one undergraduate college: College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), College of Science and Engineering (CSAE), School of Management (SOM), Hua-Shih College of Education (HSCE), College of The Arts (ARTS), College of Indigenous Studies (CIS), College of Environmental Studies and Oceanography (CESO), and College of Huilan (CHL).

Within these colleges are "departments" and "graduate institutes", which either represent one academic discipline such as Computer Science, or assemble adjacent academic disciplines such as the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Leisure Studies.

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

The NDHU College of Humanities and Social Sciences was founded by Yang Mu, a professor at the University of Washington and the founding dean of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The college offers four doctoral programs: a PhD in teaching Chinese as a second language (TCASL), a PhD in Asia-Pacific regional studies (APRS), a PhD in economics, and a PhD in Chinese literature.

College of Science and Engineering

The NDHU College of Science and Engineering was founded by Hsia Yu-Ping, a chair professor at the California Institute of Technology and Yale University.

The college has 8 departments: Applied Mathematics (AM), Physics (PHYS), Chemistry (CHEM), Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (BMM), Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), and Opto-Electronic Engineering (OEE). The college has more than 40 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree programs.

School of Management

The NDHU School of Management was founded as the Graduate Institute of Business Administration in 1994. It has six academic departments—Business Administration, International Business, Finance, Accounting, Information Management, Logistics Management—and a graduate institute of Tourism, Recreation, and Leisure Studies (TRLS). The college offers degree programs– undergraduate, MBA, MIM, EMBA, MSc, PhD, and dual degree with oversea partner universities.

Hua-Shih College of Education

The Hua-Shih College of Education traces its roots back to the Taiwan Provincial Hualien Normal School established in 1947. The school's PhD program has the second-most Indonesian graduates among all the programs in Taiwan and was the first institution in Taiwan to offer MEd and PhD degrees in multicultural education. The college become one of eight colleges at NDHU in 2008. It currently offers over 20 programs, including BEd, MEd, MSc, and PhD degrees in Curriculum and Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Educational Administration, Special Education, Physical Education and Kinesiology, Multicultural Education, and Science Education.

Academics

Research

NDHU faculty and researchers have included one International Member of National Academy of Sciences (NAS), four Fellows of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), seven Fellows of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), one Fellow of British Computer Society (BCS), one Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), two Fellows of Optical Society of America (OSA). The university is ranked as 7th university in Taiwan with greatest research impact by CNCI Index, an evaluation undertaken by Ministry of Education (MOE).

Libraries

National Dong Hwa University Library is the tallest building on campus. It holds over two million volumes in both Chinese and foreign languages and is the eighth-largest academic library in Taiwan. The university library is one of only two legal deposit university libraries, alongside National Taiwan University.

In addition to the University Library and its dependents, it has several specialized libraries; for example, the Yang Mu Library, established in 2016 in honor of the renowned literary figure Yang Mu, which was a gift from Tzu-Hsien Tung, Co-founder of ASUS, and houses all collections of Yang Mu's books, rare poetry collections, and manuscripts from the University of Washington, HKUST, Academia Sinica, and his own home. The Sinology Library was established in 2019 through donation from acclaimed sinologist Cheng Ching-mao, which houses a collection of over ten thousand Cheng's rare international and Japanese sinology books and historical materials.

Admission

Admission to the undergraduate program, Rift Valley Interdisciplinary Shuyuen (縱谷跨域書院), is one of the most selective undergraduate programs in Taiwan. For the Fall 2021 program students, NDHU only accepted of 7.1% applicants.

Rankings and reputation

In 2021, Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject ranked NDHU No.5 in Computer Sciences, No.8 in Engineering, and No.8 in Physical Sciences in Taiwan, the best ever position achieved by any university in Eastern Taiwan.

ARWU Global Ranking of Academic Subjects ranked NDHU No.4 in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in Taiwan, which was only next to National Taiwan University (NTU), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), and National Tsing Hua University (NTHU).

According to SCImago Journal Rank, NDHU is ranked 5th most innovative academic institution in Taiwan and 332th in the world.

According to Times Higher Education World University Ranking, NDHU is one of academic institutions with largest research impact for Computer Science (No.1 Citations in Taiwan, 149th in the world) and Engineering (No.3 Citations in Taiwan).

Student life

Student body

For the 2024/25 academic year, NDHU had a total full-time student body of 10,000, consisting of 7,600 undergraduate students and 2,400 postgraduates.

For the 2024/25 academic year, NDHU had one of Taiwan's largest international student bases, with 13.7% of the student body from 57 countries outside of Taiwan. The university was ranked Taiwan's 4th most internationalized university by Times Higher Education. NDHU boasts the largest number of students from Eswatini, Kyrgyzstan, Belize, Malawi, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, thanks to its exclusive partnership with the International Cooperation and Development Fund of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for computer science program. This partnership provides full scholarships to elite students from Taiwan's diplomatic allies.

Teaching and learning

NDHU is a highly residential research university offering over 40 undergraduate majors and over 70 graduate degrees.

Modular Curriculum Model

The four-year, full-time undergraduate program runs Taiwan's first modular curricula with low barrier for double major and minor.

For 2022-year graduates, more than 40% and 20% of students obtained minor and double major degrees respectively, making it the second-highest and fourth-highest university in Taiwan.

Sports

NDHU has 14 varsity teams, covering 11 sports disciplines, including track and field, swimming, basketball, volleyball, soccer, badminton, softball, baseball, table tennis, lacrosse, tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, and orienteering. The coaching staff consists of professors from the Department of Physical Education and Kinesiology and instructors from Physical Education Center.

Chen Shih-Hsin, the first Taiwanese Olympic taekwondo gold medalist, served as NDHU's taekwondo coach, to train Olympic gold medalists. Wang Cheng-Pang, first Taiwanese Olympic silver medalist for Olympic archery team, was NDHU's archery coach, to train next Olympic medalists.

In the 2021 National Collegiate Athletic Games, NDHU achieved a record of 7 golds, 4 silvers, and 9 bronzes, ranking among the top five universities with the sport-related department. At the 2023 World University Games, multiple members of the NDHU Varsity Team were selected for the national team in track and field, swimming, and taekwondo.

Dong Hwa Corner Art Festival

The Dong Hwa Corner Art Festival was firstly co-curated in 2014 by Tien Ming-Chang, Professor of Art and Design, and the "Corner Art Team", a cross-disciplinary and intercollegiate team. The festival adopted the concept of "Corner, discover the beauty of art!" and collected hundreds of artworks from teachers and students across the NDHU. The artworks were displayed in every corner of the NDHU campus, with the main axis of "Living Museum" as the curatorial theme. A "NDHU Art Treasure Map" was designed to provide participants with a map to find the exhibits in various places, conveying the spirit of "art is around us".

Global partnerships

Global Universities

NDHU has academic partnerships in teaching and research with more than 500 universities across the Americas, Asia, Oceania, Europe, Middle East and Africa, including University of California, San Diego in San Diego, University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Purdue University in West Lafayette, University of California, Irvine in Irvine, University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, University of Nottingham in Nottingham, Uppsala University in Gotland, Peking University in Beijing, Fudan University in Shanghai, Nanjing University in Nanjing, Freie Universitaet Berlin in Berlin, Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Korea University in Sejong, Yonsei University in Seoul, Tohoku University in Sendai, Hokkaido University in Sapporo.

Dual Degree Programs

NDHU established over 10 dual degree programs throughout the world, including Dual-MSc in accounting with Tohoku University in Japan, Bachelor-Master with University of Essex in UK, Dual-PhD with UCLouvain in Belgium, Dual-MA with Hiroshima University in Japan, Dual-BBA with University of Technology Sydney in Australia, Dual-PhD with Macquarie University in Australia, and Bachelor-Master with Lincoln University in New Zealand, Dual-MBA with University of Texas Arlington in United States, Dual-MBA with ESC Rennes School of Business in France.

VIP Consortium

NDHU is one of Taiwan's three universities at VIP Consortium (Vertically Integrated Projects Consortium), a global alliance of higher education institutions with Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) programs. The universities of consortium are across Europe, America, Asia, which was founded by several universities including University of New South Wales, Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, New York University, and University of Michigan.

Mandarin Education

NDHU Chinese Language Center is one of Taiwan's greatest impact institutions in Mandarin education. The university is selected as first round of 10 Mandarin Education Centers in "Taiwan Huayu BEST Program" by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Ministry of Education (MOE) to jointly promote international cooperation program in Mandarin Education in United States and Europe. The university runs two oversea Chinese Language Centers at Howard University and Oakland University in the United States to bring Taiwanese Mandarin education to the partner universities. NDHU is also selected one of nine universities in "Taiwan-Europe Connectivity Scholarship" by MOFA to expand academic cooperation and Mandarin education with European universities and selected one of five universities in "Africa Elite Talent Cultivation Program" with National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University by MOE to expand Taiwan's academic impact and Mandarin education to African.

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