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University in Taichung, Taiwan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asia University (AU; Chinese: 亞洲大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-chiu Tāi-ha̍k), formerly Taichung Health and Management College (Chinese: 臺中健康暨管理學院; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-tiong Kiān-khong Kì Koán-lí Ha̍k-īⁿ), is a private university in Taichung, Taiwan. Founded in 2001, it offers education for degrees in health and medical science, computer science and electrical engineering, creative design, management, and humanities and social sciences.
亞洲大學 | |
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Former name | Taichung Health and Management College (2001–2005) |
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Motto | 健康 · 關懷 · 創新 · 卓越[1] |
Motto in English | Health, Care, Innovation, Excellence[2] |
Type | Private university |
Established | 2001 |
President | Jing-Pha Tsai |
Students | 12,196 |
Location | , 24.046°N 120.687°E |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | asia.edu.tw |
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Traditional Chinese | 亞洲大學 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 亚洲大学 | ||||||||||||
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Former name: Taichung Health and Management College | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 臺中健康暨管理學院 | ||||||||||||
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The university was founded with the goal of becoming an internationally competitive comprehensive university, and has been growing quickly since its creation. Specifically, being essentially a college with 17 departments and only about 2000 students when established in 2001, it has become a medium-size university with 28 departments and more than 12,000 students in 2018.[3]
Asia University (AU), initially with the name of Taichung Healthcare and Management College, was founded in August 2001 in Wufeng, Taichung,(Taiwan) by Chang-Hai Tsai and Tseng-lien Lin.[4] On August 1, 2005, Taichung Healthcare and Management University was renamed "Asia University" under the authority of the Ministry of Education.[5]
Though being the youngest university in Taiwan, by great efforts put in school running in the past 19 years AU has outstanding achievements and so enters the lists of many global university rankings in the world.[6] Specifically, AU has been ranked to be one of the best universities in the world or in Asia by four famous global university rankings: (1) THE: UK Times Higher Education World University Rankings; (2) ARWU: Academic Ranking of World Universities (originally by Shanghai Jiao Tong University); (3) US News: US News & World Report Global University Ranking; (4) QS - Asia: UK QS Global University Rankings in Asia[7]