NTU intends to start more exchange programs and sign cooperative agreements with famous foreign universities.
Being the first integrated and most prestigious institution of higher education in Taiwan area,
National Taiwan University (NTU) has taken up the responsibility of promoting the level of academic research and teaching in Taiwan. It has from the very start put emphasis on scholarly research in basic theory and on free atmosphere of academic thought. The University thus sets its objective for development in three major fields: humanities and social sciences, basic sciences and applied sciences. To coordinate with the demands of the national and social developments, the University plans to expand, as needs be, those Departments and Institutes of high applicability into various professional colleges beyond its present nine colleges. Being the leading integrated university in Taiwan and responsible for training researchers and technicians in practical fields,
NTU hopes to increase gradually the number of graduate students and to decrease proportionally the number of undergraduates.
Among graduate students, more Ph. D. programs will be organized to upgrade research standards and to meet the country's demand for high-tech expertise. To also satisfy modern people's wish for multifarious knowledge offered in college and to fulfill the social function of college education through feedback,
NTU will also promote programs of extension education. The university provides on-job training to adults or people in need in order to lay a solid foundation for the lifetime education of an ideal adulthood in the 21st century.
Being the most representative university in Taiwan, the University intends to make more exchange programs and sign cooperative agreements with famous foreign universities, to achieve the goal of broadening its international scope.
NTU also encourages its faculty members to join research study groups more actively to establish research centers, and to further intercollegiate inter-disciplinary engagements. Meanwhile, an institute will be set up to supervise the developments and directions of future research through evaluations, coordination, and sanction. In addition, the University will utilize new technological achievements and information networks, to establish such advanced systems of tele-communicative teaching, tele-communicative and medical treatment cooperation, etc., to create a complete and computerized environment for more advanced research and teaching.
NTU has invested heavily to develop its extensive network of web sites in order to promote learning and share information. These efforts continue to receive global recognition. The most recent Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, released in July, ranked
NTU 70th worldwide and second in Asia for overall web performance.
NTU's position in this ranking has climbed steadily over the last three years. The university was ranked 170th worldwide and fifth in Asia in January 2006. However, it has placed within the top-100 globally since July 2007 and, in Asia, it has been second only to the University of Tokyo since July 2007.
The Webometrics Rankings have been conducted twice every year since 2004 by the Center for Scientific Information and Documentation of the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid and are intended primarily to promote electronic access to scientific publications and other academic materials.
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