NDHU Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (NDHU CSIE; ) is one of 8 departments within NDHU College of Science and Engineering and widely regarded as top 5 academic department of

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in Taiwan. According to

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, both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among Taiwanese universities. The department ranks highest in Taiwan in academic impact by THE Subject Rankings. According to

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, the department ranks Top 350 in the world. It was evaluated A level globally by THE China Subjects Ranking. NDHU CSIE's faculty has 2 IET Fellows, 2

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, 3 World's Top 2% Scientists.

History

In 1995, NDHU Graduate Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering was founded by Sy-Yen Kuo (郭斯彥), the Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

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and Dean of College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at

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, as the first computer science department in Eastern Taiwan. In 1997, the graduate institute founded bachelor's program and become Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. In 2000, the department founded its first executive master's program, the alumni include the Da-Kuei Lin (林大馗), the vice-president of KPMG Cyber Security in Taiwan. In 2001, NDHU CSIE established the 1st PhD program in Computer Science and Information Engineering in Eastern Taiwan. In 2008, with the merger of

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(NDHU) and

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(NHUE), NHUE's Graduate Institute of Information Science and Graduate Institute of learning Sciences were merged into the department, which were later integrated into the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia Technology in 2009. In 2010, the department started English-taught classes and accepting international students application undergraduate, master, PhD. In 2014, following the funding and support from International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF; 國際合作發展基金會) of

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, NDHU CSIE founded the International Bachelor's and Master's Program in Computer Science and Information Engineering, which were the 1st international program of B.S. and M.S. in computer science in Taiwan. In 2019, the International Bachelor Program in Computer Science and Information Engineering was selected as TaiwanICDF Scholarship Program, which was the only computer science program in the scholarship and provided full funding for selected applicants. In 2021, the department's TaiwanICDF Scholarship Program received 158 applications with 9.4% admission rate, which was highest numbers of program application in the TaiwanICDF Scholarship.

Degrees and programs

Undergraduate

NDHU CSIE offer the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Information Engineering. The department also offers one 5-year bachelors/masters programs: Bachelor of Science/Master of Science (B.S./M.S.) in Computer Science and Information Engineering and sponsors a minor in computer science available to all NDHU students.

Graduate

NDHU CSIE offers one Ph.D. and two M.S. programs, and provides double degrees and minor jointly with all academic institutions in NDHU. * Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Information Engineering * Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science and Information Engineering * Executive Masters of Computer Science and Information Engineering

Ranking

NDHU CSIE' is well regraded as Top 5 and most premier program in Computer Science in Taiwan, which holds same academic status for Computer Science with

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(A+) and holds same academic status with

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References

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