Taipei Medical College
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| Motto | 誠樸 |
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Motto in English
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Honesty |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1960 (as Taipei Medical College) 2000 (as Taipei Medical University) |
| President | Yun Yen |
| Students | 5,879 |
| Undergraduates | 4,283 |
| Postgraduates | 541 |
| Location | Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Affiliations |
U9 League University System of Taipei |
| Website | www.tmu.edu.tw |
| Taipei Medical University | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 臺北醫學大學 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 台北医学大学 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| 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 Tōa-ha̍k |
Coordinates: 25°01′30″N 121°33′40″E / 25.025°N 121.561°E
Taipei Medical University (TMU; Chinese: 臺北醫學大學; pinyin: Táiběi Yīxué Dàxué) 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.
The campus is located at Wuxing Street, right behind Taipei Medical University Hospital. The school buildings have classrooms and research labs. There is a gymnasium, conference rooms, sports fields and swimming pool. There are 6,000 students, 418 full-time and 600 part-time faculty members. As of September 2010, there have been more than 31,000 TMU graduates.
In 2012, Taipei Medical University was ranked as one of the World's Top 100 universities at which to study medicine, according to the QS World University Rankings.
Dr. Shui-Wang Hu and Dr. Chien-Tien Hsu founded Taipei Medical College on June 1, 1960. The college started as three buildings. Dr. Shui-Wang Hu and Dr. Chien-Tien Hsu, together with other medical professionals and educators, ran the school, using their own personal books as textbooks. With the help of private donations, the school flourished.
In 2000 the school was renamed Taipei Medical University.
TMU is composed of seven colleges:
There are three affiliated hospitals throughout southern Taipei.
The university also has 12 undergraduate schools and 14 graduate institutes.
TMU research focuses on traumatic brain injury, regenerative medicine, cancer, reproductive medicine, biomedical materials, and dental research. The annual funding TMU receives for research exceeds NT$600 million. In 2009, a Ministry of Education incentive program promoting university-industry cooperation selected the university to receive more than NT$50 million in grants over three years.
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