AMALGAMATION: Officials said that the goal is to form a top Asian university in three to five years that would have more than 1,200 lecturers and 32,000 students
Taiei Times
Date: Jul 19, 2019
By: Lo Hsin-chen / Staff reporter
Officials at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), National Pingtung
From left, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology president Yang Neng-shu, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology president Tai Chang-hsien and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology president Liao Ching-jong shake hands at a news conference in Pingtung County yesterday.
Photo: Lo Hsin-chen, Taipei Times
If successful, it would be the largest higher-education merger in Taiwan’s history.
The new institute would have more than 1,200 lecturers and 32,000 students, the universities said.
While they have yet set a timetable for the merger, they said that they hope to have plans approved at university council meetings by the end of this year. [FULL STORY]
