page_title: National Sun Yat-sen University
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: National Sun Yat-sen University / History
caption_attribution_description: English: National Sun Yat-sen University main gate in 2017
context_page_description: National Sun Yat-sen University is a public research-intensive university renowned as an official think tank scholars' community, located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Pratas Islands, South China Sea. It listed as one of the national seven universities in research, one of the four universities that make up Taiwan's Public Ivy, and among top maritime colleges and business schools in East Asia.
  The first national comprehensive university in Southern Taiwan, NSYSU was founded twice in response to the national development needs, the alumni of both the original Sun Yat-sen University and the historical Moscow Sun Yat-sen University also have contributed to the re-establishment of the university. In the beginning, all the Sun Yat-sen Universities adopted a statism educational model based-on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's philosophy. Present-day NSYSU is a normal public university, it is famous for its powerful political and commercial relations, and the exchange offices of the US Federal government, the Japanese government, and the European Commission are present on the campus.
context_section_description: In 1923, two years before his death, the Founding Father of the Republic of China (ROC), Dr. Sun Yat-sen, established two universities, one civil and one military. The civil university was National Kwangtung University (國立廣東大學, renamed National Sun Yat-sen University in 1926), and the military university was Whampoa Military Academy. Both universities generated remarkable contributions and played an important education role in modern Chinese history.
  After National Sun Yat-sen University was established in Canton, it had to move south due to the Sino-Japanese War. The university moved first to Yunnan, and later to North Guangdong. Finally, in 1945, the university moved back to and resumed operations at its original campus in Canton.
  In 1949, the government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan. Its alumni expected the National Sun Yet-sen University (NSYSU) to be re-established in Taiwan, but appropriate timing didn't occur until 1980, when Moscow Sun Yat-sen University graduate, President Chiang Ching-kuo gave his approval, Dr. Lee Huan then led the project to establish the university at its current campus location at Sizihwan in Kaohsiung City, the second largest metropolitan area in Taiwan. Several successive presidents all carried the tradition of nurturing the university's growth and development.
  When it was re-established, the university had four departments, two graduate institutes, and 189 students. Today, the university has 6 colleges (Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Management, Marine Sciences, and Social Sciences) and over 9500 students, offering 18 undergraduate majors, 35 masters programs, and 26 doctorate programs. NSYSU has grown, and is now recognized with international distinction as one of Taiwan's important research and learning institutions.
  NSYSU was named by the Ministry of Education as one of the country's seven major research-intensive universities in 2002. Two years later, the College of Management became the nation's first AACSB accredited public university. In addition, NSYSU received the first/second stage grant of the "Aim for the Top University Plan" from the Ministry of Education in 2011 and 2016. Four years later, the university has held the 1st "NSYSU & UCSD Joint Symposium" on international academic cooperation.
  In the final two months of 2014, Nobel laureates Akira Suzuki and Hiroshi Amano visited the university.
caption: The main entrance of NSYSU
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