National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology (NKUST) was established on February 1, 2018 by the merger of three universities: National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, and National Kaohsiung Marine University, becoming the largest technological university in Taiwan. With the merger, the university hopes to integrate all the resources and to cultivate more excellent technological professionals and lead the business and industry development in southern Taiwan.

The university, with great collaborative efforts across academia and industry, has reinvented itself as an outstanding international university that is widely recognized within global society. The goal is to nurture top professionals with academic excellence and to have success in industry. NKUST was ranked No. 3 among technological universities in Taiwan and No. 1 among technological universities in Southern Taiwan in the “2018 Enterprises’ Most Favored Job Seekers” survey conducted  by Global View Monthly Magazine.

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Local UCI Contact: 

Dr. Jui - Chung Kao

Email: jckao@nkust.edu.tw