National Taiwan Normal University

Originally founded in 1946 as the Taiwan Provincial Teachers College, the schools mission was to train outstanding secondary education teachers. The name was changed to National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in 1967, but the commitment to quality education and teacher training remained. With the enactment of the Teacher Preparation Law in 1994, NTNU transformed itself, creating many new academic departments, and fostering an international environment conducive to the free exchange of ideas, as well as welcoming international students to enroll in academic programs. NTNU has established sister-school ties with 207 well-known institutions in over 34 countries, spanning five continents: Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. NTNU is a diverse, multinational institution and community, with an international student population of close to 3,000 students, including students enrolled at the Mandarin Training Center.

NTNU now encompasses three campuses, He-ping campus (main campus), Gong-guan campus, and Linkou campus, and consists of 10 colleges which include 31 Bachelor’s programs, 54 Master’s programs and 31 Ph.D. programs, offering a wide variety of courses and degrees ranging from the fine arts, music, sports, science, technology, humanities, education, sociology, business management, to the international studies. There are also 18 separate research institutes.

NTNU is host to 14 research divisions and Education Centers. Established in 1956, the Mandarin Training Center not only boasts a long history, but is also the largest and most well-known language center in Taiwan for students who wish to study Mandarin. Academic semesters are three months long and offer language courses at all levels, cultural courses and many extracurricular activities in order to meet the needs of students who come from more than 70 different nations across the globe.