Campus and city
Campus life spans Hsinchu and Taipei. The Guangfu and Bo'ai campuses in Hsinchu carry the NCTU engineering culture — intense, lab-driven, pre-professional and a short hop from the chip fabs of Hsinchu Science Park — while the Yangming campus in Beitou, Taipei houses the medical and life-sciences community with a more clinical, hospital-linked rhythm; additional sites serve photonics/AI (Tainan), Hakka studies and other programs. The student body skews graduate and STEM, the pace is demanding, and daily life centers on labs, research groups and industry collaboration rather than a sprawling all-in-one undergraduate campus.