Taichung, the provincial capital of Taiwan, is a large city, but without the crowding and bustle of Taipei. Tunghai University itself has more than 10,000 students and a 340-acre campus with excellent library and athletic facilities. The architecture of the university is striking, and the buildings of the core campus are in traditional Chinese style. Classes are small, and students receive individual attention from a highly competent faculty. There is an excellent laboratory, and video is used extensively in the classroom.
Students live in dormitories on the campus, usually with Chinese roommates.
Taichung is less than four hours from Taipei by bus or train and is near both beaches and mountains. Beijing Normal University, located in the capital city, enrolls 3,000 students. The spoken Mandarin of Beijing is taken as standard for all of China, and the city itself is a lesson in history. It has a library of more than 1.2 million books. At both schools, students are housed in foreign-student dormitories on the campuses.