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Type
  
Public (National)

Academic staff
  
393

Phone
  
+886 2 2826 7000

President
  
Liang Kung-Yee (梁賡義)

Undergraduates
  
1,836

Total enrollment
  
4,133 (2007)

Motto in English
  
benevolent mind and art, putting knowledge into practice

Established
  
Founded 1975 as National Yang-Ming College of Medicine, Reorganized 1994

Address
  
No. 155號, Section 2, Linong St, Beitou District, Taipei City, Taiwan 112

Undergraduate tuition and fees
  
International tuition: 60,220 TWD (2012)

Motto
  
真知力行、仁心仁術 (Chinese language, benevolent mind and art, putting knowledge into practice)

Similar
  
Taipei Medical University, Chang Gung University, China Medical University, National Cheng Kung Uni, National Taiwan University

National Yang-Ming University (NYMU; Chinese: 國立陽明大學) is a research university located in Shipai, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is famous for research in fields of Medicine, Life Sciences and Biotechnology. In the 2010 QS Asian Universities Rankings, Yang Ming University was placed 4th among universities in Taiwan and 2nd in the field of Life Science & Biomedicine.

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Yang-Ming is named after the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming.

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History

The university was founded in 1975 as the National Yang-Ming College of Medicine to cultivate first-class medical professionals and biomedical scientists. In 1994 it was granted university status to National Yang-Ming University by the Ministry of Education and became the first university in Taiwan dedicated to biomedical education and research. Along with its original mission, the University now is devoted to excelling in biomedical research, and to promoting intercollegiate and international collaboration.

In the 30 years since its founding, NYMU has enjoyed a robust growth. By the end of the 2005 academic year, NYMU became a medium-sized university with 5 schools - Medicine, Dentistry, Medical Technology and Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences and Nursing, and a Center for General Education. Additionally, the Taipei Veterans General Hospital (台北榮民總醫院), serves as the teaching hospital for medical and paramedical students. NYMU also established 15 research centers with a wide spectrum of emphases including Genomic Medicine, Brain Research, Cognitive Neuroscience, Immunology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Imaging, Biophotonics, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, AIDS, Community Medicine, and Community Nursing.

President Liang Kung-Yee was awarded the Rema Lapouse Award in 2010.

Organization

The University currently has 7 departments and 28 graduate institutes, which are organized into 6 schools.

  • School of Medicine
  • School of Dentistry
  • School of Life Sciences
  • School of Biomedical Science and Engineering
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • In 2007, NYMU enrolled 1,836 undergraduate students and 2,297 graduate students.

    Partners HealthCare System

    In cooperation with Taipei City Hospital System and National Chengchi University, three institution formed a HealthCare system covers up medical education, healthcare, and management.

    References

    National Yang-Ming University Wikipedia