National Cheng Kung University is a research-led comprehensive university in Tainan City, Taiwan. Cheng Kung is named after Cheng Ch'eng-Kung (Koxinga), who defeated the Dutch and founded the Kingdom of Tungning in Taiwan.
NCKU is one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan, with a high reputation in science, engineering, medicine, management, planning and design. U.S. News & World Report ranked it the #22 Best Global University for Engineering and Computer Science in 2014. Times Higher Education- QS World University Rankings and Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, NCKU was ranked second or third among all universities in Taiwan. Many surveys throughout the years have shown that its students are most desired by Taiwanese companies. NCKU has 9 colleges, 40 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers, and it is also a major university, educational, and area-network center in Taiwan.
NCKU is among the four universities of the Taiwan Comprehensive University System.
National Cheng Kung University was originally established underJapanese occupation in January 1931 as Tainan Technical College(Chinese: 臺南高等工業學校). In 1942, the school was renamed to Japanese as 臺南工業專門學校 while the English name remained. After the end of Japanese occupation, the school name was renamed to Taiwan Provincial Tainan Junior College of Technology (Chinese: 台灣省立台南工業專科學校) in March 1946, and then to Taiwan Provincial College of Engineering (Chinese: 台灣省立工學院) in October the same year.
When the central government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan in 1949, it was one of the three existing colleges in Taiwan. As the number of colleges expanded, it was upgraded to a provincial university in 1956 as Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University (Chinese: 臺灣省立成功大學), and then a national university in 1971 as National Cheng Kung University (Chinese: 國立成功大學). Former Minister for Education Wu Jin served as the first president of the new National Cheng Kung University
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