National Penghu University of Science and Technology

National Penghu University of Science and Technology (NPU) began on August 1, 1991, as a branch campus of Kaohsiung Marine College, established to bring higher education to Taiwan's outlying island county. It became fully independent in 1995 as the National Penghu Institute of Maritime Technology, was upgraded to junior college status in 2000, and became a full university on August 1, 2005. Today NPU stands as the first and only university of science and technology on any outlying island of Taiwan — and the first university anywhere in the Taiwan Strait region — serving around 2,400 students from its campus in Magong City.

國立澎湖科技大學創立於民國80年（1991年）8月1日，最初為高雄海事專科學校的分部，目的是為澎湖這個離島縣帶來高等教育。民國84年（1995年）獨立設校，定名為「國立澎湖海事管理專科學校」，民國89年（2000年）改制為專科學校，民國94年（2005年）8月1日升格為完整大學。如今澎湖科大是台灣離島第一所、也是唯一一所科技大學，同時也是台灣海峽區域第一所大學，現有約2,400名學生於馬公市校區就讀。