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Nanhua University (NHU; ) is a university located in Dalin Township,
Chiayi County Chiayi County (Mandarin pinyin: ''jiā yì xiàn''; Hokkien POJ: ''Ka-gī-koān'') is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City. It is the sixth largest county in Taiwan. Name The former Chinese placename was ...
,
Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. Founded in 1996 as the Nanhua College of Management, it was elevated to university status in 1999. The university was founded by the Buddhist monk
Hsing Yun Hsing Yun () (born 19 August 1927) is a Chinese Buddhist monk. He is the founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order as well as the affiliated Buddha's Light International Association in Taiwan. Hsing Yun is considered to be one of the most pr ...
of
Fo Guang Shan Fo Guang Shan (FGS) () is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order based in Taiwan that practices Humanistic Buddhism. The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery is located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, and is ...
. In 2022, ''
Times Higher Education ''Times Higher Education'' (''THE''), formerly ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'' (''The Thes''), is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. Ownership TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'''s ''World University Rankings'' ranks NHU as 95th of the "Impact Rankings: Reducing inequalities" in the world.


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Teaching units

* College of Management ** Department of Business Administration (Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral Programs in Management Sciences) ** Department of Nonprofit Organization Management (Master Program) ** Department of Finance (Bachelor and Master Programs in Financial Management) ** Department of Cultural & Creative Enterprise Management (Bachelor Program, Master Program) ** Master Program in Leisure and Environment Management ** Department of Tourism Management (Bachelor Program and Master Program in Tourism Management) **The Department of Accounting & information Sciences * College of Humanities **Department of Life-and-Death Studies (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Department of Literature (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Department of Early Childhood Education (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Graduate Institute of Religious Studies **Department of Foreign Languages and Literature (Bachelor Program) * College of Social Sciences **Department of Communication (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Graduate Institute of European Studies (Master Program) **Department of Applied Sociology (Bachelor and Master Programs in Sociology; Master Program in Sociology of Education) **Department of International and China Studies (Bachelor Program, Master Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Master Program in Public Policy Studies) * College of Arts **Department of Visual and Media Arts (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Department of Architecture and Landscape Design, Master Program in Environmental Arts (Master Program) **Department of Creative Product Design (Bachelor Program, Master Program) **Art Culture Research Center **Department of Ethnomusicology (Ethnomusicology Group, National Country Music Group) (Bachelor Program, Master Program) * College of Science and Technology **Department of Information Management (Bachelor Program) **Department of Electronic Commerce Management (Bachelor Program) **Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (Bachelor Program) **Graduate Institute of Natural Healing Sciences (Master Program) **Department of Natural Biotechnology (Bachelor Program) *Center for General Education


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See also

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Fo Guang University Fo Guang University (FGU; ; lit. ''Buddha's Light University'') is a private university in Linmei Village, Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. It was founded by the Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist monastic order Fo Guang Shan in 2000 and as ...
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University of the West University of the West (UWest) is a private, non-sectarian, Buddhist-affiliated university in Rosemead, California. It was founded in 1990 by Hsing Yun, founder of the Taiwan-based Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan and Hsi Lai Temple, the North Amer ...


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* {{coord, 23.5693, 120.4941, type:edu_region:TW, display=title 1996 establishments in Taiwan Educational institutions established in 1996 Fo Guang Shan Universities and colleges in Chiayi County Buddhist universities and colleges in Taiwan Universities and colleges in Taiwan Comprehensive universities in Taiwan