Taipei Medical University
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Taipei Medical University (TMU; Chinese: 臺北醫學大學; pinyin: Táiběi Yīxué Dàxué; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak I-ha̍k Tāi-ha̍k) in Taiwan is located in Taipei's Xinyi District. Founded as Taipei Medical College in 1960, it was renamed as Taipei Medical University in 2000. TMU has expanded into a world class university with ten colleges, 6,000 students per year, five hospitals (TMU hospital, Wan Fang Medical Center, Shuang-Ho Hospital, Taipei Cancer Center, TMU NingBo medical Center), and more than 40,000 alumni around the world.
臺北醫學大學 | |
Former name | Taipei Medical College (1960) |
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Motto | 誠樸[1] |
Motto in English | Honesty |
Type | Private |
Established | 1960 (as Taipei Medical College) 2000 (as Taipei Medical University)[2] |
President | Chien-Huang Lin |
Students | 6,112 |
Undergraduates | 4,749[3] |
Postgraduates | 1,333[3] |
Address | , , 25.025°N 121.561°E / 25.025; 121.561 |
Colours | Maroon |
Affiliations | U12 Consortium University System of Taipei |
Website | www.tmu.edu.tw |
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Traditional Chinese | 臺北醫學大學 | ||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 台北医学大学 | ||||||||||||||||||
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In July 2017, Global Views Monthly Magazine released the ranking for Taiwan's Best Universities, in which TMU was ranked 9th. In particular, TMU was ranked top 1 in both the faculty-student ratio section (1:9.9) and the average annual budget per student section.[4] In February 2017, Cheers Magazine published the list of the Top 20 Universities of Excellence Performance.[5] TMU was at the 10th place in overall national ranking. Moreover, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) Asia University Ranking 2017, TMU was ranked as 91st place.[6]