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About National Ilan University
National Ilan University, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2006, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Taiwan. Founded on May 12, 1926,
Taiwan Provincial Ilan School of Agriculture and Forestry was a five-year school providing two areas of study: agronomy and forestry. Since its inception, the school has undergone a number of changes due to changes in social and political environments. More recently, after years of preparation and repeated calls by school administration, the local government and its people, the school has evolved from a five-year junior college (National Ilan Institute of Agriculture and Technology) to a polytechnic college (National Ilan Institute of Technology), and now a comprehensive university (since 2003) offering BA, BS, MA and MS degrees in four schools. Dr. George J. Jiang has been NIU’s 2nd president since 2006.
NIU comprises College of Humanities and Management, College of Engineering, College of Bioresources, and College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, admitting students to 13 academic departments and 17 graduate institutes leading to master degrees. Aiming at meeting the needs of national development, social progress, industrial prosperity, and economic growth, NIU educates students in high technology and management. Currently it has an undergraduate/graduate enrollment of over 5,000/320, a teaching staff of about 240, and over 40,000 alumni. It is the highest educational institution in northeastern Taiwan. The main campus is located in Yilan City, about 45 minutes ride from Taipei. In addition to an experimental forest in the suburb, NIU has acquired a 27.8-hectare site at near by Wujie for the construction of its second campus. Acquisition of the third campus site is currently in progress.
About seventy percent of our faculty members hold Ph.D. degrees in various fields. It is the university policy to continue recruiting quality teacher/researchers to its campus. In addition to the 150 laboratories operated by the departments and graduate institutes, the university is furnished with a resourceful computer centre, computerized language labs and the Analysis and Technology Consulting Center that provides the industries with the help of quality control. The new Incubator Center, established in 2006, assists the local industries in research and development. In the meanwhile, we have been advocating enhancement of the training programs by cooperating with the industries so that the ideal of life-long education may be realized. The university resources are shared with the local community. Our new library encompasses nearly 1.7 hectares and has a collection of over 200,000 books, with subscriptions to almost 1,000 periodicals on various fields of research and digitalized reserves. The nation-wide inter-collegiate library cooperation service makes resources everywhere available at one’s fingertip.
NIU takes pride in having some of the best network connections in the country. Wireless connection provding by WiMAX & WiFi mesch network is readily available throughout the campus. Student dormitories are equipped with state-of-the-art fiber network. NIU is also a local network center for Taiwan Advanced Research ＆ Education Network (one of the 12 Giga PoP, TWAREN), providing Yilan area with a stable, high speed and high quality connection up to 5Gbps to th rest of the world. NIU has now repositioned itself as an institute of higher education and is now marching forward with her energy of youth. With the vigor brought about by our expanding faculty and student body and new equipment and resources, we expect to excel in both teaching and research in the near future.
