National Kaohsiung Marine University

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Among the higher educational institutions in Taiwan, National Kaohsiung Marine University is the only one with the sea as an educational focus cultivating marine affairs professionals. In the decades since its establishment, the University has trained numerous outstanding marine professionals who have made significant contributions to our nation's economic development. With this as a foundation, the University will aggressively promote international academic and technical exchanges, lead Taiwan's marine-related industries to pursue technification and sophistication, and create a bright future for our country's marine industries.
Since its establishment, the University has used loyalty, trustworthiness, industriousness, and bravery as its spiritual standards and educational goals. It seeks to cultivate students who have the qualities of being proactive, honest, diligent, and responsible. Entrusted with the enduring mission of education, the University strives tirelessly to fulfill it by creating an exceptional learning environment to continue cultivating our country's marine affairs professionals.
With an emphasis on both humanities and technology, the University leads its students in approaching, understanding, utilizing, and protecting the sea. It cultivates appreciation for humanities and teaches the knowledge of the general culture. It develops moral character and concepts of lawful behaviors and encourages student organization activities and community service. It hopes to shape young adults with strong convictions, wholesome character, and a spirit for social service like the open, accepting, and caring sea. These healthy, honest, well-rounded people possessing integrity and skill will be ready to pursue a happy life.
The University had firmly established itself academically and prominently displayed its unique features. It invites and brings together alumni and experts from related industries, government, and academia to review and revise the content of courses. Due to society's changes and needs in our country and abroad, the University has strengthened students' internship and laboratory courses and off-campus internship training. It fully integrates into related industries. It plans the last mile of students to smooth transition into the workforce and fully realize the educational result of getting students ready for the workforce upon graduation.
The teaching focuses on practical application, and the research seeks innovation. Through cross-disciplinary technological integration, students will strengthen their problem-solving abilities. Through technological research and development, all kinds of research results and technical know-how can be converted into actual production techniques valuable to business and industry, strengthening its international competitiveness. The marine affairs industry has grown exponentially in southern Taiwan. The University is in a uniquely favorable position. Using the University's facilities and human resources and through training sessions and collaborative projects, the University closely integrates with the marine-related industries by giving full play to the Center of Marine Industry Technology, the Innovation and Incubation Merchantman Seafarer Training Center. The National Kaohsiung Marine University is indeed the best collaboration partner for the marine industry in southern Taiwan.
The National Kaohsiung Marine University is part of the vocational professional educational system. Most students are graduates of vocational schools in marine affairs, agriculture, and industry. The University cares about every student. It offers remediation in the courses for those who do not have sufficient preparation. It then makes reasonable adjustments to course content and increases course credits, internship, or laboratory hours. The University teaches practical skills raising every young person to meet the workplace's expectations and be competitive upon graduation.
To effectively integrate human talent and hardware and software resources, cross-disciplinary organizations are the best research and service groups that can help the industry increase its research and development capabilities. Using the University's faculty, library, and facilities, the University offers continuing education for professionals and a channel for life-long learning and research for alumni. It offers students internship and employment opportunities. It uses problems in the field as topics for student projects or these integrating its research capabilities with industry's demands and turning graduates into the high-level technical personnel that the industry needs.
Globalization and internationalization is a definite trend in the future world. Cultivating students grounded in Taiwan but have global citizens' qualities is an essential mission of universities. The National Kaohsiung Marine University has aggressively sought to create an international learning environment. To raise the students' foreign language abilities, it has created an English Learning Center. For students with weaker English skills, guidelines for improving English language teaching are established, exceptional foreign language teachers are recruited and tutoring is offered after scheduled classes. All this is done to implement the educational policy of raising students' foreign language abilities.
In recent years, the University has continuously conducted reciprocal academic exchanges. It has academic collaboration and agreements with marine affairs universities of over 30 universities from the United States, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Panama, Vietnam, and Mainland China.

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