National Chung Cheng University (CCU; ) is a

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in Minxiong 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 ...

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. CCU is a member of the

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History

National Chung Cheng University was the first public university established after Taiwan's economic boom of the 1980s. In 1986, in order to promote research and to develop higher education in the

Yunlin Yunlin County ( Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County t ...

Chiayi Chiayi (, Taigi POJ: ''Ka-gī''; ), officially known as Chiayi City, is a city located in the plains of southwestern Taiwan. Formerly called ''Kagee'' during the late Qing dynasty and ''Kagi'' during the Japanese era (), its historical name i ...

and

Tainan Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and also commonly known as the "Capital City" ...

areas, the government approved a plan to establish a strongly research-oriented university in Chiayi. It was named after

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary, and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 ...

and officially founded on July 1, 1989. Lin Ching-Jiang (林清江) served as its first president.

Faculties

CCU is organized into seven colleges: Education, Engineering, Humanities, Law, Management, Sciences, and Social Sciences. The

National Chung Cheng University Library The National Chung Cheng University Library () is an academic library in Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan as part of National Chung Cheng University. History The library was established in 1989. In 1993, it moved to its current buildin ...

is located on the Minxiong campus.

Ranking

The

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(2022) placed it at 801-1000th worldwide. Meanwhile, CCU ranked 1376th in the world (2022) in the

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. USNEWS (2023) placed CCU 1705th in the world.

In popular culture

CCU is notable for being the filming location of the Taiwanese television drama ''

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''."Fan girls embark on their own 'Meteor Garden' tour"
- ''

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'' (June 27, 2017, 12:15 AM)

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