National Taiwan Ocean University

National Taiwan Ocean University was founded on June 1, 1953, as the Taiwan Provincial Maritime Vocational School, opening at Badouzi on Heping Island in Keelung with only about 300 ping (roughly 1,000 square meters) of land and 127 students across three departments: navigation, marine engineering, and fishing. The school was upgraded to Taiwan Provincial Ocean College in 1964, and undertook land reclamation to expand its campus after becoming National Taiwan Ocean College in 1979. It reached full university status in 1989, and its campus has since grown from that original 300 ping to roughly 60 hectares today.

國立臺灣海洋大學創立於民國42年（1953年）6月1日，初名「臺灣省立海事職業學校」，設校於基隆和平島八斗子，僅有約300坪校地與127名學生，分為航海、輪機、漁撈三科。民國53年（1964年）改制為「臺灣省立海洋學院」；民國68年（1979年）改制為「國立臺灣海洋學院」後，透過填海造陸持續擴建校地。民國78年（1989年）正式升格為大學，校地也從最初的300坪擴展至今日約60公頃。