Tainan City is Taiwan’s most ancient city which, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, served as the seat of Taiwan and had all along been the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan. Although the provincial capital was moved to TaipeiCity, TainanCity still remains the most advanced area of culture and education throughout the TaiwanProvince and ranks the fourth biggest city of Taiwan. Tainan has, as a well-known historic ancient city, preserved many important cultural relics and places of historic interest. There are 166 temples and monasteries and more than 40 Christian and Catholic churches in the city. "There is a God at every five steps" and "a temple at three", as the metaphor goes. Over 70 places are classified as first, second and third-grade places of historic interest, such as Chihkanlou, Anping Fort, ConfucianTemple, EternalGoldenCastle, and Datianhou Temple etc. Meanwhile, Tainan is rapidly developing into a world-class city, due to Tainan’s focus on its development as both a high-technology center and an international exhibition center.

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), located in Tainan City and founded in 1931, is a leading comprehensive university in Taiwan with more than sixty departments in nine colleges covering the fields of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management, Medicine, Planning and Design, Sciences and Social Sciences. As of February 2006, NCKU enrolls more than 20,000 students and has 1,178 faculties. The University offers a broad assortment of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs. Our educational goal is to lend the students the essentials of humanities, global vision, and independent thinking. Our research objective is to pursue innovation, to foster logical thinking, and to discover the unknown.

The University is committed to enhancing its reputation through abundant resources, strong alumni support, and cooperative ventures with the Tainan Science-based Industrial Park. We have been selected the Prominent Research University in Taiwan and voted Industry’s Most Favorable University, and we are ready to meet the challenges of the 21st century.