National Central University
國立中央大學 (Chinese) | |||||||||||||||
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| Motto | 誠樸 (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: shîn-phok; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sêng-phok) | ||||||||||||||
Motto in English | Sincerity and Simplicity | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1915 | ||||||||||||||
| President | Jing-Yang Jou | ||||||||||||||
Academic staff | 746 (full time) | ||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 5,743 | ||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 6,037 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | 24°58′06″N 121°11′34″E / 24.96833°N 121.19278°E | ||||||||||||||
| Campus | Suburban | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.ncu.edu.tw | ||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 国立中央大学 | ||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 國立中央大學 | ||||||||||||||
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National Central University (Chinese: 國立中央大學; pinyin: Guólì Zhōngyāng Dàxué; abbreviated NCU; 中大; Zhōngdà) is a public research university in Zhongli, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Founded in 1915 in Nanking, it was reestablished in Taiwan in 1968 after the Chinese Civil War and gained its current name in 1979.
The university is organized into eight colleges, 26 departments, 19 graduate institutes, and six research centers. It is one of the six national universities in research selected by the Ministry of Education.