National Taipei University of Technology (Taipei Tech;Chinese:國立臺北科技大學;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Kok-li̍p Tâi-pak Kho-ki Tāi-ha̍k) is apublic university inTaipei,Taiwan. It is a member of the Global Research & Industry Alliance (Gloria) of theMinistry of Science and Technology[3] and accredited byAACSB.[4] Located in the Daan district ofTaipei, the school was established in 1912 as the School of Industrial Instruction, one of the earliest intermediate-higher educational institutions in Taiwan.
The current president of the university is Sea-Fue Wang. The university is part of theUniversity System of Taipei, along withNational Taipei University andTaipei Medical University. Its comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs offer degrees in theSTEM fields as well as design, architecture, management, humanities, and social sciences. It is also a part of the University Academic Alliance in Taiwan or UAAT, composed of the Top 12 academic institutions in Taiwan chosen by theMinistry of Education (Taiwan) in 2023.[5]
The 495-acre campus in downtown Taipei was divided into three sections during the city's development. The main campus (West, East, and South) in Taipei now only spans 22 acres, next to the affluentHuashan 1914 Creative Park and theGuang Hua neighborhood, an area known as the Electric Town of Taipei due to the computer goods and electronics stores.
The university was established as theSchool of Industrial Instruction (工業講習所;Pe̍h-ōe-jī:Kang-gia̍p Káng-si̍p-só͘) in 1912. The institution underwent several name changes and reorganizations during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan. After the (Nationalist) Republic of Chinacentral government settled in Taiwan as an outcome of thewar against the Communist regime, the institution was renamedProvincial Taipei Institute of Technology (臺灣省立臺北工業專科學校) in 1948 and served as avocational technical college. In 1981, it was renamedNational Taipei Institute of Technology (國立臺北工業專科學校). In the 1990s its status was upgraded to that of a university, resulting in its name change toNational Taipei University of Technology (國立臺北科技大學) in 1997.
Taipei Tech ranks 425th globally inQS 2025, making it the 6th best university in Taiwan.[14][15][16] It is also ranked 801-1000th globally inTimes Higher Education 2024,[17] and 1223rd inU.S. News & World Report 2024. Taipei Tech is also reputable among employers in Taiwan—according to CHEERS Magazine in 2021, it is the 6th most preferred university overall for Taiwanese companies and the 1st among technical universities.[18]
Taipei Tech includes six colleges, two centers, and one office. The university currently has 451 full-time faculty members.
The main gate on Zhongxiao East RoadThe 70th Anniversary Commemorative Bell Tower after its 2024 renovation. The building at the back houses the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
College of Electric Engineering and Computer Science
The Green Gate was completed in 2010 to make the campus more eco-friendly. It won theSpecial Mention of Green Campus andMost Favorable Online in the 2010 Taipei Landscape Award.[19]
Li Kuei-Hsien, Taiwanese author and poet, noted for writing extended verses withTaiwanese Hokkien, was a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature by the International Poets Academy of India
T.H. Tung, Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, co-founder ofAsus and its former vice chairman, and chairman ofPegatron
Morin Kaku, Renowned Taiwanese-Japanese architect, lead designer of theKasumigaseki Building, the first modern office skyscraper in Japan. He later founded the Kaku Morin Group architecture firm, had numerous projects both in Japan and Taiwan
