LSE-inspired school to be set up in Hsinchu

Taipei Times
Date: May 09, 2020
By: Rachel Lin and Dennis Xie / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Taipei School of Economics and Political Science foundation chairman Huang Huang-hsiung, left, holds a check mockup with Pau Jar Group vice chairman Lin Chia-hung, right, representing his father Lin Chen-hai, the group’s founder and chairman, alongside National Tsing Hua University president Hocheng Hong at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times

National Tsing Hua University and a private foundation yesterday signed a contract in Taipei to found the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science (TSE).

Signed by TSE foundation chairman Huang Huang-hsiung (黃煌雄) and university president Hocheng Hong (賀陳弘), the school represents the first collaboration in the nation between a private foundation and a public institution to set up an educational institution.

The TSE is to be established inside the Hsinchu-based university, becoming the 11th college on campus, Huang said, adding that it plans to admit 10 graduate students in September next year, before gradually raising the number to 30 doctoral and 150 graduate students each year.

International students are expected to make up two-thirds of the studentry, with all courses taught in English, he said, adding that graduation diplomas will be conferred by the university.
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