Hungkuang University

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Hungkuang University has entered a new era since the renaming of the school in 2003. Our faculty and students all recognize that a purposeful and effective college education should be based on humanistic values and the exploration of our own existence. We believe that a university is a place where young adults begin the process of growing into caring mature adults. Living up to the goals our mo...tto embodies, our students are not only expected to contribute to society, but to develop into well-rounded individuals.
On May 7th, 1965 the founder of Hungkuang, Dr. Yu Lin Wang established the Hungkuang Junior College of Nursing, carrying forward his father’s legacy of medical service. On July 12th of that same year, following the support and ratification of the Ministry of Education.
In the spirit of the school’s motto, “Begin from oneself, extend benevolence to all,” Hungkuang continued to expand its educational mission and opened new departments of Food Science and Nutrition, Industrial Safety and Health, and Healthcare Administration. In 1991, the school was upgraded to Hungkuang Institute of Medical and Nursing Technology, and it added the departments of Childcare and Education and Cosmetology in both the day and night school divisions.
With the support of all faculty and staff, the decision was made to change the school from an institute to Hungkuang College of Technology, the first such school in Central Taiwan to do so. Several new departments: Information Management, Hospitality Management, Physical Therapy, and Applied Foreign Languages. More broadly, extended the concept of management to every aspect of the school to improve both the administrative operations and educational mission.
The change was accompanied by the establishment of several new departments, including graduate programs in nursing, biomedical technology, nutrition, food science, cosmetic science, health business administration, environmental engineering, and occupational safety and hazard prevention. In 2006, the Ministry of Education awarded Hungkuang with a 9-year grant for academic excellence. The school was also recognized as the only model institution among technological universities in Central Taiwan. In 2013, the Ministry of Education recognized Hungkuang alone among all universities in Taiwan with the Award for Excellence in Business Management.
In August of 2014, During this period, strengthened the school"s health-related programs by establishing the Doctoral Nursing Program, the Post- Baccalaureate Nursing Program, the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, and the Bachelor Degree Program in Animal Healthcare.
From August, 2016 to January, 2017, Vice President Hung Yee Shu served as Acting President. Under his leadership, the school was awarded Taiwan Foundation for Sustainable Energy Foundation "Top 50 Corporate Sustainability Report - Nonprofit Gold Award "and many other honors.
Today, Hungkuang has over 13,000 students and six colleges, including the College of Medicine and Nursing, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Human Ecology, the College of Management, the College of Engineering, and the College of General Education. Among these colleges are 20 undergraduate departments and 9 graduate institutes.