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National Taiwan Ocean University
Keelung Campus, Keelung City Taiwan
# 1201-1400QS World University Rankings
22Undergraduate programs
46Postgraduate programs
4QS stars
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About National Taiwan Ocean University
Since the establishment of National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) in 1953, we have developed under the excellent leadership of former principles and the positive efforts among all of our teachers and students. From Provincial Taiwan Maritime Technology College with a campus area of only 991.8 square meters in the beginning to Provincial Maritime College and then National Taiwan College of Marine Science and Technology, we’ve come a long way before gradually developing into the current National Taiwan Ocean University with a campus area of 60 hectares. We have become an international top university that “focuses on ocean but not limited to it” and are famous for both “excellent teaching” and “characteristic research”.
We currently have three campuses, including “Keelung Campus”( main campus ), “Matsu Campus”, and “Taoyuan Guanyin Campus”. There are seven colleges in the university and containing 22 departments, 12 independent institutes, 28 master’s programs, 20 PhD programs, 13 in-service master's programs, and 4 bachelor programs of extension education. Our student number is around 9,000 people plus 500 foreign students and international students from other countries. We have become an international top higher education institution in marine with most complete characteristics in the world.
The main campus of our university is next to Keelung Port with mountains and ocean at our elbow as well as Heping Island, Chen-Pin Fishing Harbour, Bisha Fishing Harbour, and National Museum of Marine Science and Technology nearby. The unique Longgang Ecological Park is in our campus and is a good place to look at the beautiful sea view of the boundless Pacific Ocean; it makes us a harbour city university with beautiful landscape. Our Matsu Campus was established in September 2017, and there are three departments there. Other than teaching and experimental research, the featured key courses in the campus are closely linked with to the direction of industrial development in Matsu. Meanwhile, we also set up “Matsu Marine Research Centre” to plan multi-dimensional development related to academia and industry collaboration, biotechnology value-added technology, transport infrastructure, shipping, water activities, and tourism & recreation with the anticipation of cultivating interdisciplinary high-level talents in the marine industry. In November 2018, we established “Marine Incubation Centre” in Taoyuan Guanyin Campus, where we set up a marine environment observation platform and a marine science park to assist Taoyuan City Government to construct Taoyuan as a large cosmopolitan city that are with resources of land, sea, and sky.
Over the years, our university earned recognition for our performance in teaching, research, and service one after another. Starting from 2005, we have been selected continuously as the key university for “Program of Promoting Teaching Excellence of Universities” launched by Ministry of Education. Since 2006, we have been awarded special grants for “Five-Year Plan to Develop First-Class Universities and Top-level Research Centres in NT$50 Billion”, “Aim for the Top University Project”, two featured first-class research centres for the first part and the second part of “Higher Education Sprout Project”- “Ocean Centre” and “Centre of Excellence for Ocean Engineering”, and “University Social Responsibility (USR) Project” by Ministry of Education continuously. The “Journal of Marine Science and Technology (JMST)” published by our university has become the first journal among the journals published by the domestic universities that is included in the database of dual I (SCI and EI). It can be regarded as the recognition from external parties to our university in the dimensions of teaching, research, and service.
About National Taiwan Ocean University
Since the establishment of National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) in 1953, we have developed under the excellent leadership of former principles and the positive efforts among all of our teachers and students. From Provincial Taiwan Maritime Technology College with a campus area of only 991.8 square meters in the beginning to Provincial Maritime College and then National Taiwan College of Marine Science and Technology, we’ve come a long way before gradually developing into the current National Taiwan Ocean University with a campus area of 60 hectares. We have become an international top university that “focuses on ocean but not limited to it” and are famous for both “excellent teaching” and “characteristic research”.
We currently have three campuses, including “Keelung Campus”( main campus ), “Matsu Campus”, and “Taoyuan Guanyin Campus”. There are seven colleges in the university and containing 22 departments, 12 independent institutes, 28 master’s programs, 20 PhD programs, 13 in-service master's programs, and 4 bachelor programs of extension education. Our student number is around 9,000 people plus 500 foreign students and international students from other countries. We have become an international top higher education institution in marine with most complete characteristics in the world.
The main campus of our university is next to Keelung Port with mountains and ocean at our elbow as well as Heping Island, Chen-Pin Fishing Harbour, Bisha Fishing Harbour, and National Museum of Marine Science and Technology nearby. The unique Longgang Ecological Park is in our campus and is a good place to look at the beautiful sea view of the boundless Pacific Ocean; it makes us a harbour city university with beautiful landscape. Our Matsu Campus was established in September 2017, and there are three departments there. Other than teaching and experimental research, the featured key courses in the campus are closely linked with to the direction of industrial development in Matsu. Meanwhile, we also set up “Matsu Marine Research Centre” to plan multi-dimensional development related to academia and industry collaboration, biotechnology value-added technology, transport infrastructure, shipping, water activities, and tourism & recreation with the anticipation of cultivating interdisciplinary high-level talents in the marine industry. In November 2018, we established “Marine Incubation Centre” in Taoyuan Guanyin Campus, where we set up a marine environment observation platform and a marine science park to assist Taoyuan City Government to construct Taoyuan as a large cosmopolitan city that are with resources of land, sea, and sky.
Over the years, our university earned recognition for our performance in teaching, research, and service one after another. Starting from 2005, we have been selected continuously as the key university for “Program of Promoting Teaching Excellence of Universities” launched by Ministry of Education. Since 2006, we have been awarded special grants for “Five-Year Plan to Develop First-Class Universities and Top-level Research Centres in NT$50 Billion”, “Aim for the Top University Project”, two featured first-class research centres for the first part and the second part of “Higher Education Sprout Project”- “Ocean Centre” and “Centre of Excellence for Ocean Engineering”, and “University Social Responsibility (USR) Project” by Ministry of Education continuously. The “Journal of Marine Science and Technology (JMST)” published by our university has become the first journal among the journals published by the domestic universities that is included in the database of dual I (SCI and EI). It can be regarded as the recognition from external parties to our university in the dimensions of teaching, research, and service.
Available programs
Bachelor UG
Master PG
MBA
PHD
A Comprehensive University with a Unique Oceanic Features
NTOU has 7 colleges and 5 university-level teaching and research centres (Centre for General Education, Ocean Centre, Center of Excellence for Ocean Engineering, Taiwan Marine Education Centre, and Maritime Development and Training Centre), 22 undergraduate departments and 3 post-degree programs. In September 2017, we established 3 additional bachelor programs in Matsu Campus (students will study in Matsu in the sophomore year of their university study and study in Keelung in their freshman, junior, and senior years).
Giving priority to ocean but not limited to it
NTOU is an exclusive “International Ocean Outlet”, which gives priority to the ocean but not limited to it. It facilitates interdisciplinary integration, enhances oceanic and maritime features, and at the same time improves high technology research. In addition, NTOU includes departments of Optoelectronics, Materials Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Communications, Mechanical Engineering, Marine Engineering, Bioscience, Transportation Science, Food Science, Ocean Tourism, Ocean Law and Policy, Oceanic Cultural Creative Design Industries, among others, become an International Top Ocean University.
Energetic NTOU - Holistic Education
NTOU promotes holistic education, focuses on the balanced development of science and technology, humanity and nature, internalizes the spirit of Honesty, Simplicity, Fraternity and Perseverance, improves students’ language abilities, pays attention to practices, assists interdisciplinary learning, facilitates corporate internships, and encourages oversea study. The university song singing competition has become an annual event which energizes the campus, and it is incomparable with the other schools.
Tuition, Credit and Dormitory Fees
1. Tuition plus credit fees may range from NT$ 46,000 (USD$1,600) to NT$53,000 (USD$1,850) per semester.
2. Expenses for textbooks or course equipment may range from NT$5,000 (USD$166) to NT$10,000 (USD$333) per semester (It depends on individual needs).
3. Living expense is about NT$10,000 (USD$333)per month (It depends on individual needs).
4. Accommodation fees: (1) For 2-beds room: NTD$ 15,900/semester (USD$530/semester) (2) For 4-beds room: NTD$ 7,950~9,000/semester (USD$266-300/semester) (3) For summer term: About NTD$ 66/ day (USD$2/day)
Application Notes please visit: https://oia.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1022-7231.php?Lang=en
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (7)
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Communications, Navigation and Control Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Electrical Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Optoelectronics and Materials Technology
College of Engineering (7)
Bachelor's Program, BS, Bachelor Degree Program in Ocean Engineering and Technology
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Harbor and River Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Systems Engineering and Naval Architecture
College of Humanities and Social Sciences (7)
Bachelor's Program, BBA, Bachelor Degree Program in Ocean Tourism Management
Bachelor's Program, BFA, Bachelor Degree Program in Oceanic Cultural Creative Design Industries
College of Life Sciences (7)
Bachelor's Program, BS, Bachelor Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Aquaculture
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Food Science
College of Maritime Science and Management (7)
Bachelor's Program, BBA, Bachelor Degree Program in Ocean Business Management
Bachelor's Program, BBA, Department of Shipping and Transportation Management
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Marine Engineering
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Merchant Marine
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Transportation Science
College of Ocean Law and Policy (7)
Bachelor's Program, LLB, Bachelor Degree of Ocean Law and Policy
College of Ocean Science and Resource (7)
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science
Bachelor's Program, BS, Department of Marine Environmental Informatics
NTOU has rapidly developed its research power.
NTOU has numerous unique facilities: national oceanographic ship- Ocean Researcher II, the third biggest Large Cavitation Tunnel Laboratory, an advanced Ship-handling Simulator Training Center, the only coastal Aquatic Animal Center; the largest Ocean Engineering Labs in Asia, a satellite telemetry team, a Maritime Intelligent Transportation System, and a Traceability Certification and Inspection Center.
NTOU plays a leading role in the international field of fisheries science and technology and disease prevention research, transgenic technologies, cultivation techniques of marine organism and seedling mass production. It has integrated research at the East China Sea for the long term, and it has leading results in the areas of marine energy resources, marine power generation, fish physiology and sex reversal propagative techniques, and coral reproduction.
The quality and quantity of research papers published by our university in marine science and technology journals has grown exponentially.
Our in-house academic journal – the Journal of Marine Science and Technology of NTOU- has been published and indexed in SCI; the research quality and quantity of papers published by our university in marine science and technology journals both top the list in Taiwan; NTOU actively promotes industry-academy cooperation and technology transfer, and has made plentiful achievements. Our critical instruments are offered for intramural and extramural use; it pays attention to ocean, and makes Taiwan as influential as other countries in the international field.
Tuition, Credit and Dormitory Fees
1. Tuition fees may range from NT$45,000(USD$1,550) to NT$53,000(USD$1,850) per semester.
2. Expenses for textbooks or course equipment may range from NT$5,000 (USD$166) to NT$10,000 (USD$333) per semester (It depends on individual needs).
3. Living expense is about NT$10,000 (USD$333)per month (It depends on individual needs).
4. Accommodation fees: (1) For 2-beds room: NTD$ 15,900/semester (USD$530/semester) (2) For 4-beds room: NTD$ 7,950~9,000/semester (USD$266-300/semester) (3) For summer term: About NTD$ 66/ day (USD$2/day)
Application Notes please visit: https://oia.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1022-7231.php?Lang=en
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (7)
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Communications, Navigation and Control Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Electrical Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Optoelectronics and Materials Technology
College of Engineering (7)
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Harbor and River Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Systems Engineering and Naval Architecture
College of Humanities and Social Sciences (7)
Graduate Program, MA, Institute of Applied English
Graduate Program, MA, Institute of Oceanic Culture
Graduate Program, MEd, Institute of Education
College of Life Sciences (7)
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Aquaculture
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Food Science
Graduate Program, MS, Institute of Food Safety and Risk Management
Graduate Program, MS, Institute of Marine Biology
College of Maritime Science and Management (7)
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Marine Engineering
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Merchant Marine
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Transportation Science
College of Ocean Law and Policy (7)
Graduate Program, LLM, Institute of the Law of the Sea
Graduate Program, MA, Master Degree Program in Ocean Policy
College of Ocean Science and Resource (7)
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science
Graduate Program, MS, Department of Marine Environmental Informatics
Graduate Program, MS, Institute of Earth Sciences
Graduate Program, MS, Institute of Marine Affairs and Resource Management
Graduate Program, MS, Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology
Full-Time MBA (1)
Graduate Program, MBA, Department of Shipping and Transportation Management
Graduate Program, MBA, Institute of Applied Economics
College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (6)
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Electrical Engineering
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Optoelectronics and Materials Technology
College of Engineering (6)
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Harbor and River Engineering
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Systems Engineering and Naval Architecture
Graduate Program, PhD, Doctoral Degree Program in Ocean Engineering and Technology
College of Life Sciences (6)
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Aquaculture
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Food Science
Graduate Program, PhD, Doctoral Degree Program in Marine Biotechnology
Graduate Program, PhD, Institute of Marine Biology
College of Maritime Science and Management (6)
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Marine Engineering
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Shipping and Transportation Management
College of Ocean Law and Policy (6)
Graduate Program, LLD, Institute of the Law of the Sea
College of Ocean Science and Resource (6)
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Environmental Biology and Fisheries Science
Graduate Program, PhD, Department of Marine Environmental Informatics
Graduate Program, PhD, Doctoral Degree Program in Ocean Resource and Environmental Changes
Graduate Program, PhD, Institute of Earth Sciences
University information
1. Library The University
Library, built in 1991, is housed in a five-story building with a Reading Room in the basement. The main library and the new (1999) Library Annex are situated directly across from the dministration Building, just inside the main gate. The Library provides extensive services and a public Reading Room to the entire University community.
2. Sports fields:
(1)Swimming Pool. (2)Recreation Center. (3)Tennis Court. (4)Track & Field Stadium. (5)Basketball Court. (6)Gymnasium.
Student life
There are several restaurants on campus.
24 hours convenient store: Ok Mart, Family Mart (2)Book store (3)Gas Station (4)Post Office
Postal boxes are conveniently placed throughout Taiwan. All the students are required to open an account at Post office. The university will deposit TA, RA, stipend and payment of work into the account. Opening an account at post office is part of the registration process. For opening an account, you need to get your personal Chinese stamp.
A. First Bank has a counter at the Administration Building. Students can open their bank account at First Bank. However, bank is not providing service of money exchange inside campus. You will be provided an ATM card.
Web Site: firstbank.com.tw
NTOU offers a wide array of clubs and organizations representing many interests. Refer to the Division of Extracurricular Activities for descriptions of the numerous campus organizations. Information about the many clubs on campus can be found.
Tuition fee and scholarships
Domestic Students
International Students
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Rankings & ratings
National Taiwan Ocean University is one of the top public universities in Keelung City, Taiwan. It is ranked #1201-1400 in QS World University Rankings 2024.
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