National Central University

National Central University traces its roots to Sanjiang Normal School, founded in Nanjing around 1902 during the late Qing dynasty, which became National Nanjing Normal College in 1915 and was renamed National Central University in 1928. Under president Luo Jia-lun the university relocated west to Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War and grew into one of China's most comprehensive wartime universities. After 1949, the university did not resume operations all at once in Taiwan — its geophysics program was first revived in Miaoli in 1962, then relocated to Zhongli in 1968 and expanded into a College of Science. The institution formally resumed the name "National Central University" in 1979, and the current Zhongli campus has been in continuous operation since 1968.

國立中央大學校史可追溯至清末南京的三江師範學堂（約1902年創立），1915年改為國立南京高等師範學校，1928年更名為國立中央大學。抗戰期間，該校在校長羅家倫帶領下西遷重慶，發展為當時中國最完備的大學之一。1949年後，該校並非一次性在台復校——地球物理研究所於1962年先在苗栗復校，1968年遷至中壢並擴展為理學院，1979年正式恢復「國立中央大學」校名。中壢校區自1968年起持續運作至今。