National Chung Hsing University

National Chung Hsing University is a research-led comprehensive university in South District, Taichung, Taiwan.Currently, NCHU is among the four universities of Taiwan's Public Ivy - the Taiwan Comprehensive University System.HistoryThe university began as the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan Advanced Academy of Agronomy and Forestry, founded by the Japanese in Taihoku (modern-day Taipei) in 1919 during Japanese rule. After 1928, the academy became a special department affiliated to Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). The department became an independent school again in 1943 and was moved to Taichū (modern-day Taichung).After the Kuomintang took over Taiwan in 1945, the school was reorganized and renamed "Taiwan Provincial Taichung Agricultural Junior College". In 1946, the Junior College evolved into a higher institution, the "Taiwan Provincial College of Agriculture".In 1961, it combined with the newly established College of Science and Engineering on the same Taichung campus and the College of Law and Business founded in Taipei in 1949, to become "Taiwan Provincial Chung Hsing University". The name "Chung Hsing" refers to "Chinese national revival".In 1964, an evening school was set up on the Taipei campus. In 1968 another evening school and the College of Liberal Arts were added to the Taichung campus.

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