National Ilan University

National Ilan University (NIU) traces its origins to May 12, 1926, when it was founded as "Taihoku Prefectural Yilan Agricultural and Forestry School" — the first secondary school established in Yilan and the first agricultural school in northern Taiwan. Over the following decades it was upgraded repeatedly: to a vocational agricultural school in 1946, renamed to add engineering programs in 1967, elevated to a junior college in 1988, reorganized as the National Ilan Institute of Technology in 1998, and finally granted full university status as National Ilan University in 2003. Today NIU comprises four colleges — Bioresources, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering, and Humanities and Management — serving roughly 5,000 students.

國立宜蘭大學創校可追溯至1926年5月12日，日治時期名為「臺北州立宜蘭農林學校」，是宜蘭地區第一所中等學校，也是北台灣第一所農業學校。歷經多次升格：1946年改為農業職業學校，1967年增設工科並更名，1988年升格為專科學校，1998年改制為國立宜蘭技術學院，2003年正式升格為國立宜蘭大學。現今宜大設有生物資源學院、電機資訊學院、工學院及人文管理學院四大學院，在學學生約5,000人。