National Chung Hsing University comprises eight colleges, Institute of Innovation Industry and seven major research centers. The University owns four experimental forest stations, veterinary hospital, an agricultural experimental farm and an animal experiment farm, whose teaching and research facilities occupying an area of more than 8,000 hectares. The Ministry of Education (MOE) launched in 2006 and 2011 its two phases, five-year 50 billion program Aiming for Top University. With its distinguished efforts and achievements in the past, NCHU has been chosen as one of the universities for grant subsidy by the MOE. In appreciation of this valuable grant, NCHU faculty, students and staff have made all efforts to implement its plans of the project, with significant improvements in the areas of institutional and administrative system reform, academic research, teaching quality, talent cultivation, internationalization, and academia-industry collaboration.

The University owns the best hydraulic laboratory equipped with various kinds of laser measurement apparatuses and the best data system for scour damage histories of bridge and levee. Also, the average age of the professors in the Department of Material Science is the youngest among the same departments in Taiwan.

Mission

Our mission is to transform NCHU as a Cultural Green Silicon Valley, characterized with cultural cultivation and environmental-friendly green technology, thereby facilitates cultural and industrial development in central Taiwan. NCHU`s incubation center has been named one of the top 10 incubation centers in Asia.

Vision

Our vision is to become a World-Class University. The University works to provide its faculty and students with a diversifying and high quality environment for teaching, learning and research to achieve its objectives of teaching and research excellence and regional leadership on academia-industry collaboration in central Taiwan. In a further effort, the University intends to consolidate its academic leadership in tropical and subtropical agriculture in its development into a top-tier international university.

Goal

The University works to cultivate talents with good training in the humanities and science, communication skills and innovation ability, global vision and social concern. It will carry on its longstanding tradition of talent cultivation for government offices and foster professional talents for overseas agricultural technology assistance and emerging high-tech industries in pursuit of sustainable development for human welfare.