National Chung Hsing University

National Chung Hsing University

國立中興大學
Motto	誠樸精勤
Motto in English	Honesty, Simplicity, Advancement, Diligence
Type	Public
Established	1919
Endowment	$126.51 million
President	Fuh-Sheng Shieu
Academic staff	845
Administrative staff	416
Undergraduates	10,240
Postgraduates	5,552
Location	South District, Taichung, Taiwan
Campus	Urban, 0.872 km² Experimental forest , 83.25 km²
Affiliations	EUTW Taiwan Comprehensive University System
Website	www.nchu.edu.tw

National Chung Hsing University (NCHU; Chinese: 國立中興大學) is a research-led comprehensive university in South District, Taichung, Taiwan. According to Ministry of Education rankings, it is the best university in central Taiwan.

Currently, NCHU is among the four universities of Taiwan's Public Ivy - the Taiwan Comprehensive University System.

The university began as the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan Advanced Academy of Agronomy and Forestry (Japanese: 臺灣總督府農林專門學校^?), founded by the Japanese in Taihoku (modern-day Taipei) in 1919 during Japanese rule. After 1928, the academy became a special department affiliated to Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). The department became an independent school again in 1943 and was moved to Taichū (modern-day Taichung).

After the Kuomintang took over Taiwan in 1945, the school was reorganized and renamed "Taiwan Provincial Taichung Agricultural Junior College". In 1946, the Junior College evolved into a higher institution, the "Taiwan Provincial College of Agriculture".

In 1961, it combined with the newly established College of Science and Engineering on the same Taichung campus and the College of Law and Business founded in Taipei in 1949, to become "Taiwan Provincial Chung Hsing University". The name "Chung Hsing" (Chinese: ; pinyin: zhōngxīng; Wade–Giles: chung-hsing; literally: "to reestablish") refers to "Chinese national revival".