Fine Arts (graduate degree included)

1. Our staff is equipped with multiple expertise, although the teaching process may be strict at times, but the learning environment is open and free. Students have received international and domestic awards and is valued by the art community. Our students are often the recipient of many competition, this includes the National Art Awards, the Taipei Art Awards, the Kaohsiung Award, the Hsinchu Art Award, and the Nanying Award.

2. International and domestic exchange exhibitions are actively held. Visiting art events abroad have also expanded our students’ perspective and established new visions. In recent years, the number of graduate students have increased greatly, the number of applications and onsite registrations reached the highest rate compared to other universities in Taiwan. We are also very eager to contribute a new possibilities towards the development and requirements of the four education fields in the modern era.

Design (graduate degree included)

1. Our staff members are all equipped with professional experiences. The programs for our undergraduate and graduate students are well planned with supporting facilities which establishes a perfect teaching system. We emphasize the application of materials, digital support, and the theoretical and practicality aspects of form design. With the investing efforts into the development of art experiments and cultural innovation to lead the current trend, we are committed to cultivate creative designs and designers with practical production skills that will become a strong force in the industry.

2. The students from the design division are highly valued in the international and domestic craft and design industrial community, moreover, they are often the award recipients of the Taiwan Craft Competition, Young Designers’ Competition, Hsinchu Art Award, Formosa Jewelry Design Competition, etc. In the recent years (2011-2015), 150 students have won various awards from all over the world (15 winners for international awards, 135 winners for domestic awards).

Theory (Master’s degree only)

1. For half a century, our staff, who are theory expertise, have fostered numerous art educators all around Taiwan, they are referred as the driving force in our education system during postwar period. For the past five years, due to the change of the art education system, the need to acquire a Master’s degree has come to a new low, therefore our theory discipline had transferred its research focus from “art education” to “modern/contemporary art and aesthetic culture.” This shift of focus become one of our unique features in the field, standing out from all other top universities.

2. Our theory division takes in 8 students each year, our call for application in autumn accepts 4 to 5 students, and we only take 3 to 4 students for the entrance examination in spring. The staff members specializes in art psychology, art history, photography & media arts, and aesthetic experience. Their standards in teaching and supervising students are held to the merits of this department’s traditional virtues; they not only teach from the heart, but also maintain a close teacher-student relationship. We also encourage those who do not have any experiences in art practice to apply, together we can find new cross-disciplinary research possibilities.