Yuan Ze University

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Established in 1989, Yuan Ze University may be young by traditional standards, yet it has been recognized as a model for newly emerging universities within the shortest period. As the first and the only University to win the National Quality Award in 2003, Yuan Ze received an award from the Ministry of Education for the Teaching Excellence Project in 2005. Successively, the MOE has been designated as one of the top 12 universities in Taiwan, receiving an award for the “Aim for the Top University and Elite Research Center Development Project” since 2005. Granted with the highest honor in teaching, research and administration, Yuan Ze has become a marvel of higher education in Taiwan.
Currently, Yuan Ze has five colleges, including the Colleges of Engineering, Informatics, Management, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Electrical and Communications Engineering. There are over 9,000 students with a 2:1 ratio between undergraduate and graduate students on campus. Aimed at housing key research centers in Taiwan, our Fuel Cell Center and Communications Research Centers have integrated all resources and recruited talents in all engineering-related departments at Yuan Ze through support from the Top Universities Project. The College of Management has established the first EMBA program in Taiwan. All the Graduate School of Management courses are conducted in English to connect our students to the international marketplace further. The College of Informatics is the first college in Taiwan to adopt information as the core for its teaching and research. It emphasizes practical experience with the integration between technology and social studies. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences works closely with our College of General Studies to promote teaching and research in humanities, general education, and ethics.
Giving top priority to students in teaching and counseling, Yuan Ze emphasizes education in both creativity and ethics. Moreover, we are active in the nation’s pioneering “Classics 50 Reading Project,” “YeSir Mentorship Program,” and promote all types of activities that will enrich students’ extracurricular studies. Founded by the Far Eastern Group, we have established close relationships with all of its subsidiaries to form an industrial and academic alliance. The internship plan for both domestic and international students can be fully realized through such a network. Based on the unique niche Yuan Ze has created, we provide added value to students and faculty members and expect ourselves to be the benchmark university in industry-academia collaboration.
The central theme of the University’s development strategy emphasizes differentiation and internationalization. Through differentiation in curriculum design and research, we will create our distinguishing characteristics and brand while recruiting outstanding foreign faculty and potential international students to provide favorable packages and scholarships/fellowships.
As the youngest and most energetic University of Taiwan’s top universities, we will continue to fully utilize our competitive advantages of “innovation,” “quality,” and “flexibility.” We provide a challenging environment for students to enjoy learning, develop their potentials, and surpass themselves for faculty to devote themselves to inspiring and mentoring their students and pursuing truth and academic excellence and for staff to promote the quality of service and fulfill personal growth.
Yuan Ze University inaugurated the campus public relations function in 1993, and in 1997 instituted the public relations office, which was renamed the Public Affairs Office in 2001 after augmenting its function, predicating the communication mechanism with the media, on and off-campus interaction. In the light of the abolition of the university entrance examination system scheduled for 2002, the supplanting scheme separating examination and nomination fueled the community’s contention for outstanding candidates, coupled with competition from elite universities abroad engendered by Taiwan WTO entry, how to compete with renowned international institutions, how to package the school and conduct effective marketing have become the primary tasks of the Public Affairs Office.

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