Since the establishment of National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU) in 1953, we have developed under the excellent leadership of former principles and the positive efforts among all of our teachers and students. From Provincial Taiwan Maritime Technology College with a campus area of only 991.8 square meters in the beginning to Provincial Maritime College and then National Taiwan College of Marine Science and Technology, we’ve come a long way before gradually developing into the current National Taiwan Ocean University with a campus area of 60 hectares. We have become an international top university that “focuses on ocean but not limited to it” and are famous for both “excellent teaching” and “characteristic research”.
We currently have three campuses, including “Keelung Campus”( main campus ), “Matsu Campus”, and “Taoyuan Guanyin Campus”. There are seven colleges in the university and containing 22 departments, 12 independent institutes, 28 master’s programs, 20 PhD programs, 13 in-service master's programs, and 4 bachelor programs of extension education. Our student number is around 9,000 people plus 500 foreign students and international students from other countries. We have become an international top higher education institution in marine with most complete characteristics in the world.
The main campus of our university is next to Keelung Port with mountains and ocean at our elbow as well as Heping Island, Chen-Pin Fishing Harbour, Bisha Fishing Harbour, and National Museum of Marine Science and Technology nearby. The unique Longgang Ecological Park is in our campus and is a good place to look at the beautiful sea view of the boundless Pacific Ocean; it makes us a harbour city university with beautiful landscape. Our Matsu Campus was established in September 2017, and there are three departments there. Other than teaching and experimental research, the featured key courses in the campus are closely linked with to the direction of industrial development in Matsu. Meanwhile, we also set up “Matsu Marine Research Centre” to plan multi-dimensional development related to academia and industry collaboration, biotechnology value-added technology, transport infrastructure, shipping, water activities, and tourism & recreation with the anticipation of cultivating interdisciplinary high-level talents in the marine industry. In November 2018, we established “Marine Incubation Centre” in Taoyuan Guanyin Campus, where we set up a marine environment observation platform and a marine science park to assist Taoyuan City Government to construct Taoyuan as a large cosmopolitan city that are with resources of land, sea, and sky.
Over the years, our university earned recognition for our performance in teaching, research, and service one after another. Starting from 2005, we have been selected continuously as the key university for “Program of Promoting Teaching Excellence of Universities” launched by Ministry of Education. Since 2006, we have been awarded special grants for “Five-Year Plan to Develop First-Class Universities and Top-level Research Centres in NT$50 Billion”, “Aim for the Top University Project”, two featured first-class research centres for the first part and the second part of “Higher Education Sprout Project”- “Ocean Centre” and “Centre of Excellence for Ocean Engineering”, and “University Social Responsibility (USR) Project” by Ministry of Education continuously. The “Journal of Marine Science and Technology (JMST)” published by our university has become the first journal among the journals published by the domestic universities that is included in the database of dual I (SCI and EI). It can be regarded as the recognition from external parties to our university in the dimensions of teaching, research, and service.
