Times of the United Kingdom (THE) announced the subject rankings of 2022 the world's universities. In the subject field, Taiwan was included in the list of 18 schools this time for the subject of Physical Sciences (both public and private school inclusive). Taiwan’s outstanding achievements are recognized internationally.

The Science Ranking uses the same credibility and rigorous performance indicators as the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The ranking highlights the leading universities in subjects such as mathematics & data, physics & astronomy, chemistry, geology, environmental science, and earth & ocean sciences. 1,227 schools around the world are included, which is an increase of 78 schools from last year.

MCUT President Thu-Hua Liu said that with the full support of the board of directors and the efforts of all faculty and staff, the school has devoted in the five major areas: "health biotechnology", "medical care", "green energy technology", "plasma technology" and "design innovation". Nine research centers such as Center for Plasma and Thin Film Technologies, Biochemical Technology R&D Center, Center for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Center on Reliability Engineering, Organic Electronics Research Center, Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Research Center for Intelligent Medical Devices, Center for Environmental Stability & Human Health, and Bioprocess Research Institute are established over the years to create a sustainable research and teaching environment, accumulate research capacity of teachers and students, enhance the link between academic research and industrial technology, and create research and development benefit.

The predecessor of MCUT was Ming Chi Institute of Technology. After the restructuring, it expanded from five disciplines to three colleges, ten departments, eleven graduate schools, and two doctoral programs. The number of students is more than 4,000. Cross-field learning makes the courses diversified and inspires students’ creativity. The campus has expanded from 45 hectares to 62 hectares with a beautiful scenery, which is suitable for students to lay a solid foundation for future development. MCUT upholds the concept of exquisite education. In such a high-CP learning environment, it cultivates outstanding and capable talents who attract enterprises’ immediate employment after their graduation. President Thu-Hua Liu also hopes that MCUT will continue its original intention in the future to safeguard this training base for Taiwan’s industrial R&D talents.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year, The parent-teacher conference for new students of MCUT was held online to avoid cluster infection. The general presentation of school affairs was cancelled accordingly. The Section of Student Counseling was responsible for contacting all the department offices, setting up the MS Teams breakout rooms and posting the QR codes of the links to each department breakout room on the official website of the university as well as on the invitations to the parents. The invitations of this conference were then mailed along with the tuition notices. While signing up for the conference, parents were able to decide if they needed the hard copies of handbooks. If so, the handbooks would be mailed by the Section of Student Counseling as the reference for parents to know more about the university concepts.

The online parent-teacher conference was held on September 4th, with 902 faculty members and parents in total participating the event. The chair and class mentors of each department hosted the discussion in the relative breakout room while the staff of the Section of Student Counseling and the department office provided administrative support in response to the questions regarding the software or university. After the parents entered the breakout room of each department, they would listen to the introduction about the university and department by the chair, then interact with the class mentors who shared ideas concerning the curriculum and class management and finally ask related questions.

Parents and class mentors were invited to fill a satisfaction survey after the virtual parent-teacher conference this year. In general, parents thought this conference was helpful for them to know about the ways with which the university has been run. Moreover, the school side also acquired an opportunity to listen to the doubts and thoughts from the parents. Through the interaction held online, both sides could communicate on concepts and goals of education; the understanding and collaboration between the two sides were also deepened in order to achieve a better educational effect. Some parents suggested the instructions regarding holding the event online could have been more clear so as to avoid the problems such as login failures or entering the wrong breakout rooms.

Traditional Chinese Edition: 泰晤士世界大學理學學科排名 明志科大唯一入榜科技大學