National Taiwan University (NTU) is in Taipei. Its predecessor, Taihoku Imperial University, was established under Japanese rule in 1928. After the Second World War the government of the Republic of China took it over on 15 November 1945 and renamed it National Taiwan University. Wen-Chang Chen has been President since January 2023.
As of the 2025 to 2026 academic year, NTU has 17 colleges and 3 professional schools (dentistry, veterinary medicine and pharmacy), 61 departments and 154 graduate institutes. Its history page reports 34,935 students in 2025, of whom 17,568 were university students and 17,367 graduate students. The About NTU page lists more than 6,400 faculty and staff.