From a postwar night school to a design pioneer.
Songshan Vocational High School of Commerce and Home Economics traces its roots to 1946, when it opened as a night-school program called "Taipei Municipal Songshan Junior High School," borrowing classrooms from neighboring Songshan Elementary School just as Taiwan transitioned from Japanese rule to Republic of China administration. Over the following decades it evolved through several reorganizations — becoming a junior commercial vocational school in 1947, merging with three other Taipei junior commercial schools in 1951, adding a senior division in 1961, and being upgraded to "Taipei Municipal Songshan Senior Commercial Vocational School" in 1969 — before taking its current name in 1993, when a home economics division was added.
松山家商創校於1946年（民國35年），最初以借用松山國小教室的夜間補習班型態成立，命名為「臺北市立松山初級中學」，恰逢台灣由日治轉為中華民國政府管轄之際。此後歷經多次改制：1947年改為初級商業職業學校，1951年與台北市其他三所初級商業學校合併，1961年增設高級部，1969年升格為「臺北市立松山高級商業職業學校」，最終於1993年（民國82年）增設家事類科，改為現今校名。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🎨 A Pioneering Advertising Design Program
廣告設計科的先驅
Founded in 1971, the school's Advertising Design Department is one of the longest-running in Taiwan, with a reported 100% rate of students continuing their education after graduation.
🏫 Decades of Reorganization
歷經多次改制沿革
From a 1946 night-school program to mergers, upgrades, and a 1993 renaming, the school's history traces the broader development of Taipei's postwar vocational education system.
🌐 Growing Beyond Commerce
跨足多元領域
The school added an Interior Design Department in 1993 and an Applied Foreign Languages Department (English track) in 2013, broadening beyond its original commercial focus.
🏙️ At the Edge of the Xinyi Financial District
緊鄰信義金融區
Located on Songshan Road, the campus has watched the surrounding neighborhood transform from a postwar vocational-education corridor into the modern Xinyi Planning District, anchored by Taipei 101.
Education growing alongside Xinyi's skyline.
Founded in 1946 just as Taiwan transitioned from Japanese to Republic of China administration, Songshan Vocational's decades on Songshan Road trace the same stretch of land that later became a vocational-education corridor feeding graduates into the finance, design, and retail firms of the nearby Xinyi Planning District (信義計畫區) — the area now anchored by Taipei 101 and Taipei's tallest skyline. See the Taipei city page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 655, Songshan Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 110, Taiwan
臺北市信義區松山路655號
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