NYCU is one of Taiwan’s rare comprehensive universities that integrates top-tier strengths in medicine, engineering, and the humanities—a model built through the 2021 merger of National Yang Ming University and National Chiao Tung University. Today, NYCU spans nine campuses across five counties, bringing together a learning-and-research community anchored by 19 colleges, 85 research centers, and an affiliated hospital.

 

A defining strength of NYCU is its ability to connect scientific discovery to real-world systems—healthcare, semiconductors, communications, and space—through interdisciplinary collaboration and industry partnership. On the medical side, NYCU is expanding clinical translation capacity through major infrastructure and program development, including the growth of the biomedical park ecosystem and the building of next-generation clinical platforms. On the engineering side, NYCU sits at the heart of Taiwan’s innovation corridor, with research ecosystems that bridge fundamental science and large-scale applications.

 

In 2024–2026, NYCU also advanced several signature initiatives recognized beyond campus. In space technology, NYCU’s ASARe team achieved a major milestone with the successful first flight test of the Asfaloth sounding rocket, in collaboration with Taiwan’s space ecosystem. In advanced communications, NYCU-supported free5GC—an open-source 5G core network project—moved under the Linux Foundation, signaling the university’s contribution to global, standards-aligned 5G/6G innovation. In precision medicine, NYCU announced plans to establish an Accelerator-Based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (AB-BNCT) Center at the under-construction Chuming Hospital, expanding access to next-generation targeted radiotherapy through an industry–academia–medical partnership.

 

NYCU’s model is also notable for turning collaboration into capacity-building. The university’s research-and-training environment is designed to produce professionals who can operate across disciplines: physician-engineers who bridge clinical need and engineering design, researchers who work at the interface of AI and medicine, and innovators who can translate prototypes into deployed solutions. In parallel, NYCU has invested in bilingual learning, student support, and global mobility to ensure that talent development is not limited to the lab, but extends into leadership and cross-cultural teamwork.

 

Finally, NYCU’s culture is defined by “co-creation”: students, faculty, industry, hospitals, and international partners jointly shape research agendas and training pathways. This is reinforced by strong fiscal capacity and strategic investment focus areas—semiconductors, artificial intelligence, smart healthcare, space technology, and digital innovation—allowing NYCU to pursue long-term, high-impact research while building next-generation talent pipelines.