Asia University (AU; Chinese: 亞洲大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-chiu Tāi-ha̍k) is a private university in Taichung, Taiwan. Founded in 2001, it offers degrees in health and medical science, computer science and electrical engineering, creative design, management, and humanities and social sciences.
The university was founded with the goal of becoming an internationally competitive comprehensive university, and has been growing quickly since its creation. Specifically, being essentially a college with 17 departments and only about 2000 students when established in 2001, it has become a medium-size university with 28 departments and more than 12,000 students in 2018.
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History
Asia University (AU), initially with the name of Taichung Healthcare and Management College, was founded in August 2001 in Wufeng, Taichung,(Taiwan) by Chang-Hai Tsai and Tseng-lien Lin. On August 1, 2005, Taichung Healthcare and Management University was renamed "Asia University" under the authority of the Ministry of Education.
Faculties
College of Medical and Health Science
Department of Healthcare Administration
Department of Food Nutrition and Health Biotechnology
Department of Biotechnology
Department of Psychology
Department of Nursing
Department of Optometry
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology
Department of Occupational Therapy
Department of Physical Therapy
Department of Post-Baccalaureate Veterinary Medicine
College of Information and Electrical Engineering
Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering
Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering
Department of M-Commerce and Multimedia Applications
Department of Photonics and Communication Engineering
Department of Information Communication
College of Management
Department of Business Administration
Department of International Business
Partner institutions
Americas
Case Western Reserve University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tulane University
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of South Carolina
University of Texas, Austin
University of Victoria
Universidade Catolica de Brasilia
Malaysia
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Rankings
AU has been ranked to be one of the best universities in the world or in Asia by four famous global university rankings: (1) THE: UK Times Higher Education World University Rankings; (2) ARWU: Academic Ranking of World Universities (originally by Shanghai Jiao Tong University); (3) US News: US News & World Report Global University Ranking; (4) QS - Asia: UK QS Global University Rankings in Asia.