Taipei Medical University 5.21

Taipei Medical University 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.HistoryDr. 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.AcademicsTMU is composed of seven colleges: College of Medicine College of Oral Medicine College of Pharmacy College of Nursing College of Public Health and Nutrition College of Medical Science and Technology College of Humanity and Social Science There are three affiliated hospitals throughout southern Taipei.The university also has 12 undergraduate schools and 14 graduate institutes.ResearchTMU 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.