National Taiwan University

National Taiwan University is a public research university in Taipei. It was founded in 1928 as Taihoku Imperial University and reorganized as National Taiwan University in 1945. The main campus occupies Da'an District, with additional campuses, hospitals, and experimental farms. It is a comprehensive university covering the arts, sciences, professions, and agriculture.

Colleges include liberal arts, science, social sciences, medicine, engineering, bioresources and agriculture, management, public health, electrical engineering and computer science, law, and life science. Graduate students work in National Taiwan University Hospital and in laboratories in semiconductors, agriculture, and public health. Academia Sinica, adjacent to the campus, collaborates with NTU faculty.

About 32,000 students enroll, with a large graduate population and several thousand international students from East and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Faculty number more than 2,000. Chemist Yuan T. Lee, Nobel laureate in chemistry in 1986, is an alumnus, as are former president Tsai Ing-wen and former president Ma Ying-jeou.

Graduate study includes research master's and doctoral degrees and professional programs in medicine, law, and management. Supervision is through faculty laboratories and hospital departments. The year has two semesters. Research assistantships are common in science and engineering. Students live in Taipei and use the metro to reach labs, clinics, and archives.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, National Taiwan University lists 1 master's program, in public health. National Taiwan University holds rank 153 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.