National Sun Yat-sen University

National Sun Yat-sen University is a public research-intensive university renowned as an official think tank scholars' community as well as an academic center of oceanology and management studies, located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Pratas Islands, South China Sea. NSYSU is the first national comprehensive university of the Southern Taiwan, and is the first top 7 research universities in the whole country.The university was founded twice in 1924 and 1980 in response to the national development needs, the alumni of both the original Sun Yat-sen University and the historical Moscow Sun Yat-sen University have also contributed to the re-established of NSYSU. In the beginning all the Sun Yat-sen Universities were adopted a Soviet Sun Yat-sen University Model and based-on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's philosophy, present-day NSYSU is already a normally public university, but it is still famous for its powerful political and commercial relations.The university is organized into six colleges, but it consists mainly of a considerable number of research institutes. NSYSU has traditionally been called Taiwan's top three with the programs in applied science, business school, marine sciences, and social science. In addition, NSYSU is often ranked among the world's top 400 universities overall. In addition, the exchange offices of the US Federal government, the Japanese government, and the European Commission are present on the campus. The university faculty maintain strong ties to industry and government officials, many of them also serve as elite bureaucrats and NGO advisors. Furthermore, NSYSU is the birthplace of the first Sinophone bulletin board system and is also one of the four universities that make up Taiwan's Public Ivy, the Taiwan Comprehensive University System .
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