A century of agricultural education.
National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) traces its roots to April 1924, when it was founded during the Japanese colonial period as the Kaohsiung District Pingtung Extension School of Agriculture. It was renamed and expanded in 1928, restructured into a vocational junior college in 1991, and finally upgraded to full university status in August 1997 under its current name. Over a century after its founding, NPUST remains one of Taiwan's oldest agricultural education institutions, now home to a full range of colleges spanning agriculture, engineering, management, humanities, and veterinary medicine, together with an International College.
國立屏東科技大學的歷史可追溯至日治時期民國13年(1924年)4月創立的「高雄州立屏東農業補習學校」。1928年擴大改制,1991年改制為專科學校,並於民國86年(1997年)8月正式升格為大學,即現今校名。歷經百年發展,屏科大是台灣歷史最悠久的農業教育機構之一,現設有農學院、工學院、管理學院、人文暨社會科學院、獸醫學院及國際學院等。
What makes this university worth knowing.
🌾 Tropical Agriculture Leader
熱帶農業研究重鎮
NPUST is recognized as a leading institution for tropical agriculture research, reflecting its founding mission as an agricultural extension school over a century ago.
🐾 College of Veterinary Medicine
獸醫學院
Its distinct College of Veterinary Medicine is comparatively rare among Taiwan's universities, alongside colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Management, and Humanities and Social Sciences.
🌳 Forestry and Sustainability
森林與永續發展
NPUST is active in forestry and wood-science-and-design programs and has been recognized in university social responsibility (USR) and sustainability rankings.
🌐 Genuine English Website
完整英文官網
NPUST maintains a well-developed, actively updated English site with its own news, a "Brief History" page, and international program information — not machine-translated boilerplate.
Grown from Pingtung's farmland.
NPUST's founding purpose was explicitly agricultural — an extension school for the Kaohsiung and Pingtung farming district in 1924 — and it remains organized around a College of Agriculture and tropical-agriculture research today, directly reflecting Pingtung County's identity as a major tropical and subtropical farming region. See the Pingtung county page for more on the region.
Find the university.
1, Shuefu Road, Neipu, Pingtung 912301, Taiwan
屏東縣內埔鄉學府路1號
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