Jump to the main content block
:::

From Where We Began

Brief History of the University

    Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan's first private technological university, was established in 1994. It locates at Wufeng, Taichung, a place with poetic scenery, aggregating talented people and culture. The school name Chaoyang implies the unyielding perseverance and hard work of a man of integrity in times of adversity, like the universe, always high-spirited and strives to become excellent and extraordinary. The school comprises 6 colleges and 25 departments, offering 5 Ph.D. programs, 23 Master's Classes, and undergraduate programs, with around 14,500 students and 600 faculty members. Chaoyang has achieved excellence and entered various renowned international rankings: World University Rankings of Times Higher Education (THE) for 7 straight years, Impact Rankings, Young University Rankings, Emerging Economies Rankings, Asia University Rankings, Computer Science Rankings, and Engineering Rankings. Not only entering the QS University Rankings:Sustainability 2024, but it has become the Top 100 in the GreenMetric World University Rankings for 7 years in a row.
 
     Remarkable achievements also brought Chaoyang local awards. It was the Best Private Technological University in the reputation surveys of Global-View Magazine for 2 consecutive years. Enterprises ranked Chaoyang's graduates as their favorite among private technological universities. Academically, Chaoyang demonstrated its influence and competitiveness by winning first in citation rate for 11 consecutive years. It won a three-peat success in the CommonWealth Magazine USR University Citizen Rankings and the USR Role Model Award of the Global-View Magazine, a testament to its commitment to achieving the SDGs of the United Nations and university social responsibilities.
 
    Chaoyang has signed collaboration pacts with over 640 overseas universities and engaged world-class scholars and foreign intellectuals from Hungary, Israel, Denmark, Britain, the United States, Canada, Turkey, the Slovak Republic, Japan, and India as part of the teaching team. The school sponsors a thousand students yearly to participate in overseas exchange programs where they can join study tours, dual-degree programs, international competitions and conferences, volunteer services, and overseas internships. To boost R&D performances and industry-academic collaborations, the school strengthens the University-Level Research Centers through featured programs. It has invested TWD 700 million to establish the College of Aviation, comprising the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Aviation Technology, and Air Transport Management. Chaoyang is the only institute in Taiwan that works with airlines to provide professional flight training, and the prospect is promising.

 

Messages from the President

President_Tao-Ming Cheng

Tao-Ming Cheng, Ph.D.

President of Chaoyang University of Technology

 

Pursue Excellence, Success follows

  CYUT is situated in the Wu-Fong District in Central Taiwan, full of incredibly natural beauty with ubiquitous elegance and grace. Irrigated by historical and cultural soil, CYUT provides students with an environment combined with higher education cradle and well-equipped campus. Compared to famous universities with more than one hundred years, CYUT is a relatively new 22-year-old university with outstanding ambitions to develop academic and technological talents, achievements, and resources. We are now emerging as a major academic powerhouse in Taiwan. Our university title, Chaoyang, meaning facing the rising sun, creates a self-image of aggressive studies, large-scale development, perfect rules and value systems. Because of incessant digging, CYUT has been trying to create various kinds of miracles in the face of international cultural impacts in the global village.
 
  Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon for us to re-consider the possibilities of individualism, free wills of labor ideology, and choices of personal life-style. In the era of Internet, the development of higher education in different countries deserve our scrupulous consideration of oceans of problems, such as how to promote and upgrade universities, how to create mutual communication among multi-cultural movements on the campus, how to incorporate professional cross-cultural outputs, and how to keep abreast of international tendency. After 30 years of endeavors, CYUT has grown up and has navigated toward a closer connection and link with internationalization.
 
  Due to sharp decline of birth rate, Taiwan is now facing serious social and educational crises. In the 12 years to come, the number of college students dwindles. Thus, we have to take advantage of all possible facilities and resources to make both ends meet and then to create the biggest possible profits for the lasting survival of our university. By means of internationalization, we can cooperate with and guide other institutions of higher education in other countries to cultivate, to educate, to develop, and to employ students with talents. In the near future, we have to accelerate our pace to offer more educational opportunities to students from south-eastern Asia. Like the past five years, we have tried our best to recruit, to guide and to train students from Mainland China. Both strategies are of great importance. Besides, we still have to expand our Thousand-Student-Overseas-Learning-Plan as a way to make our students understand foreign cultures both economically and financially. The more our students can have a better understanding of overseas economy and life-style, the more progress our students will make to let our society a better one. Namely, the life force in Taiwan is closely intertwined with the supply and demand of international commodity.
 
  About course arrangement, CYUT has performed teaching quality guarantee system for many years and has become the paradigm among universities in both Taiwan and Mainland China. About students' life guidance, every class instructor is supposed to help students solve various kinds of problems they encounter. Both elite and handicapped students can also receive extra care from their instructors. The mutual interaction among instructors and students can intensify harmony on the campus. Our internship system helps students build a seamless connection between campus life and career employment. Our motto is that the moment students graduate, they can be employed; the moment they are employed, they are well-equipped. Some students even participate in academic-industrial projects with their teachers to learn, to research, and to develop, and to achieve many results and outcomes.
 
  In order to make administrative affairs efficient, we strengthen our teaching as well as R&D and stay up-to-date with many universities in highly industrialized countries because of our terrific campus culture and teamwork skills. Now CYUT is ranked among top world 1,000 by Webometrics Ranking of World Universities and we intend to make our dreams come true: by 2021, CYUT will be ranked Top-500 University in Asia by Times Higher Education World University Rankings; by 2026 Top-300 University in Asia; by 2030 Top-1,000 University in the World; by 2050 Top-100 New University in the world. 
 
  In TIMES Higher Education Asia Universities Summit 2016, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, President of California Institute of Technology, viewed 「Vision, Focus, Perspective」 as the motto of Caltech. In other words, it means seeing far away, paying attention to depth, and digging into everything. This cornerstone of administrative affairs is also appropriate to CYUT. In order to stabilize the rapid development of CYUT and to anchor our campus value, it is very important to perpetuate our sustainable administration, to play the dual role of inherited tradition and innovation, to amplify administrative development, and to expand the influence of teaching and scientific research. We have to shoulder this heavy duty and responsibility. Members of administrative team, faculty, students, and those enthusiastic educators for the development of CYUT—together, let's work hard and create our future so as to pursue excellence and then success follows.          

  

The Emblem of CYUT

The University Motto and Emblem

 

Diligence: Earnest study in pursuit of the truth

Character: Self-cultivation to add strength of character

Practice: Self-discipline in service to the public

 

Mascot of CYUT - Black-Winged Kite

The University Motto and Emblem

 

Black-winged kite (binomial name: Elanus caeruleus), categorized as a Class II Rare and Valuable Species in Taiwan, features owl-like forward-facing eyes with red irises, grey back and white body, and a striking black and white contrast between its long wings when flying. It hovers over open grasslands and feeds on voles. Black-winged kite has been successfully bred in Wufeng Taichung in recent years, helping farmers catch mice and reduce the use of pesticides. It is representative of friendly farmland.

CYUT connects the mascot black-winged kite with its action to combine Wufeng's ecological, agricultural, innovation, and cultural strengths with campus resources to promote a southward-focused ecological characteristic of Taichung and balancing the rural-urban development, enriching the mascot imagery and ultimately driving the black-winged kite as Wufeng's symbolic image.

Tien-Shen Yang
Chairman, Board of Trustees of CYUT (Founder of CYUT )

Founder

 

●Position:
 
  1. Chairman, Ever Fortune Industrial Co., Ltd.
  2. Chairman, Poding Culture & Education Foundation
  3. Chairman, Taiwan Provincial Poding Social Welfare Public Service Charities Foundation
●Experiences:
 
  1. Representative, the 1st-Term National Assembly, and Chairman, the 1st-Term National Assembly Committee
  2. Chairman, Chang Sheng Power Company. (Hai-hu Power Plant in Taoyuan)
  3. General Director, Chinese National Federation of Industries
  4. President, Construction Engineering Association of the R.O.C.
  5. President, Taiwan Provincial Construction Engineering Association
  6. President, Taiwan Provincial Industrial Association
  7. President, Taiwan Provincial Leather Association
  8. President, Taichung County Industrial Association
  9. President, Table Tennis Association of the R.O.C.
  10. Founder, Pan Asia Bank
  11. Chairman, Chang Sheng International Development Co., Ltd.
  12. Chairman, Yue-Mei International Development Co., Ltd. (Yamay World)

Shih-Hsuan Sung
Former Board Chairman

Former Board Chairman

 

●Experiences:
 
  1. President, Headquarter of China Youth Corps
  2. General Director, Taiwan Provincial Committee of Kuomintang Party
  3. Director, Organization and Development Committee, Central Committee of KMT
  4. President, Broadcasting Corporation of China
  5. National Policy Advisor (to Dr. Teng-Huei Lee, the Formal President of the R.O.C.)

School Value

In its policies and administration, the University upholds the following values and requires the following programs:
●It values professional knowledge, a global perspective, communication and cooperation, and the ability to make timely use of all relevant information.
●It emphasizes proper conduct, professional ethics, good judgment, and a responsible attitude.
●It requires all students to complete a labor education program in order to develop a balanced physical and mental work ethic.
●It instills self-discipline and self- respect in the students, and cultivates their ability to live and study as independent and autonomous individuals.
●It emphasizes academic exchange in order to combine local and international strengths and raise academic standards.
●It will establish technical research and development centers, and provide service to industry through technical cooperation.

Educational Goals

●It should respect academic freedom, uphold the dignity of education,and foster an ethical and democratic learning environment.
●It should develop skilled professional with high standards of ethics and character, to meet the needs of society.
●It should put the school motto of "Diligence, Betterment, and Practice" into Practice.
●It should emphasize practical teaching and research in order to fulfill the goals of polytechnic education.
●It should promote exchange and cooperation among industry, government, and academic to raise the standards of industry.
●It should give ourselves to Taiwan, transcend Asia, and challenge the world, always seekingexcellence.

Organizational Chart

112-06-01組織架構表(英文)

Distinguishing Features of CYUT and Our Mission

         Chaoyang offers the society with well educated students characterized by integrated intellectual, physical, social, moral, and spiritual development. The University also strives to serve the society through various academic programs and community services. Aided by extensive scientific research and academic exchanges, Chaoyang is committed to the pursuit of promoting the well-being of the human family and strengthen world integrity. 
 
●Chaoyang values professional knowledge, a global perspective, communication and cooperation, and the ability to make timely use of all relevant information.
●Chaoyang emphasizes proper conduct, professional ethics, good judgment, and a responsible attitude.
●Chaoyang requires all students to complete a labor education program in order to develop a balanced physical and mental work ethic.
●Chaoyang instills self-discipline and self-respect in the students, and cultivates their ability to live and study as independent and autonomous individuals.
●Chaoyang emphasizes academic exchange in order to combine local and international strengths and raise academic standards.
●Chaoyang establishes technical research and development centers, and provides service to industry through technical cooperation.


 

Mission Statement

●Chaoyang respects academic freedom, upholds the dignity of education,and fosters an ethical and democratic learning environment.
●Chaoyang develops skilled professional with high standards of ethics and character to meet the needs of society.
●Chaoyang puts the school motto  "Diligence, Betterment, and Practice" into Practice.
●Chaoyang emphasizes practical teaching and research in order to fulfill the goals of polytechnic education.
●Chaoyang promotes exchange and cooperation among industry, government, and academic to raise the standards of industry.
●Chaoyang is committed to rooting Taiwan, approaching internationalism, and sustainable development as its vision.
 

 

Mission Statement

Land Capacity and Building Area

Land Capacity

66.4 hectares

Building Area

         Currently the University comprises 12 facilities, namely the Administration, Information, Science and Engineering, Teaching, Humanities and Technology, Design and Management Building, Poding Memorial Library, the Freshman dormitories, Parking Building, the Kindergarten and the athletics Building, with the total floor space of 157,428 square meters, a 400 meter athletic field, basketball, tennis, and volleyball courts for physical education and leisure activities.

Land Capacity and Building Area

Introduction Video