To celebrate YunTech’s 25^th birthday, a series of activities, such as a fair, student clubs exhibition, organic food farmers market, idesign market for YunTech students and alumni, and a “one-day college student activity” for high school students were held from November 25^th to November 28^th in the year of 2015. The topic “25 Years of Working on Teaching and Research, YunTech Makes Itself a Paradigm University!” was chosen as the main concept of YunTech’s 25^th birthday. It is hoped that by being led by President Hou Chun-kan, YunTech can become an even more internationally famous and top university and be able to meet any kinds of challenges with its creativity.

Under the leaderships of the past presidents and President Hou, YunTech has become a flagship technical university in Taiwan with its years of hard work on industry-academia cooperation and design power. YunTech focuses both on practice and theory through the efforts of its 4 different colleges, namely, the colleges of Engineering, Management, Design and Humanities and Applied Sciences. The university’s student population is approximately 10,000 and its alumni population is near 43,000.

YunTech’s outstanding performances and achievements are listed below:

1.     All the 7 departments and 1 graduated school of the College of Engineering are accredited by the Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan (IEET). The College of Management is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and Accreditation of Chinese Collegiate School of Business (ACCSB).

2.      For the “Subsidy Directions for Developing Technological University Paradigms,” YunTech received funding valued at NT$12,300,000.

3.     In the category of the MOE Teaching Excellence Project, YunTech has been ranked the highest among all technological universities in Taiwan for the 10th consecutive year.

4.     YunTech was granted the “Energy Saving Award” and “Excellent Award” by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (R.O.C.).

5.     YunTech was ranked 74th among the top 100 universities across the Taiwan Strait according to a survey released by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

6.     YunTech was ranked 7th among other universities in the Asia area by Red Dot Award in 2015.

7.     YunTech’s faculty members and students have won 55 gold medals, 50 silver, 23 bronze and 24 special awards at various national and international competitions, showcasing their world-class competitiveness.