亞洲大學 | |
Former name | Taichung Health and Management College (2001–2005) |
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Motto | 健康 · 關懷 · 創新 · 卓越[1] |
Motto in English | Health, Care, Innovation, Excellence[2] |
Type | Private university |
Established | 2001 |
President | Jing-Pha Tsai |
Students | 12,196 |
Location | , 24°02′46″N 120°41′13″E / 24.046°N 120.687°E |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | asia.edu.tw |
Asia University | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 亞洲大學 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 亚洲大学 | ||||||||||||
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Former name: Taichung Health and Management College | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 臺中健康暨管理學院 | ||||||||||||
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Asia University (AU; Chinese: 亞洲大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-chiu Tāi-ha̍k), formerly Taichung Health and Management College (Chinese: 臺中健康暨管理學院; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-tiong Kiān-khong Kì Koán-lí Ha̍k-īⁿ), is a private university in Taichung, Taiwan. Founded in 2001, it offers education for 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.[3]