Taipei Medical University

Taipei Medical University
Taipei Medical University
Traditional Chinese	臺北醫學大學
Simplified Chinese	台北医学大学
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Táiběi Yīxué Dàxué
Wade–Giles	T'ai-pei I-hsüeh Ta-hsüeh
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Tai2 bei3 Yi1 swye2 Da4 swye2
Jyutping	Toi4 bak1 Ji1 hok6 Daai6 hok6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Tâi-pak I-ha̍k Tāi-ha̍k

Taipei Medical University
臺北醫學大學
Former name	Taipei Medical College (1960)
Motto	誠樸
Motto in English	Honesty
Type	Private
Established	1960 (as Taipei Medical College); 2000 (as Taipei Medical University)
President	Chien-Huang Lin
Students	6,112
Undergraduates	4,749
Postgraduates	1,333
Address	Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan; 25°01′30″N 121°33′40″E / 25.025°N 121.561°E
Colours	Maroon ;
Affiliations	U12 Consortium; University System of Taipei
Website	www.tmu.edu.tw

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.

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]

^ "Motto (in Chinese)". TMU. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
^ "Digital Archives Program of TMU". Taipei Medical University. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
^ ^a ^b "TMU Facts". Taipei Medical University. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
^ 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司. "2017台灣最佳大學排行榜：國立大學大者恆大南北競爭力持續失衡| 遠見雜誌". 遠見雜誌 - 前進的動力 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^ "臺北醫學大學今日北醫-TMU Today: 北醫大獲《Cheers雜誌》「2017年大學辦學績效最佳Top 20」，評選為全國第10". blog.tmu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
^ "Taipei Medical University". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2018-03-23.

[1] "Motto (in Chinese)". TMU. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-10-04.

[2] "Digital Archives Program of TMU". Taipei Medical University. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

[stanford_facts-3] "TMU Facts". Taipei Medical University. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

[4] 遠見天下文化出版股份有限公司. "2017台灣最佳大學排行榜：國立大學大者恆大南北競爭力持續失衡| 遠見雜誌". 遠見雜誌 - 前進的動力 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2018-03-23.

[5] "臺北醫學大學今日北醫-TMU Today: 北醫大獲《Cheers雜誌》「2017年大學辦學績效最佳Top 20」，評選為全國第10". blog.tmu.edu.tw. Retrieved 2018-03-23.

[6] "Taipei Medical University". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 2018-03-23.

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