Notable Achievements in 2020

The participation of National Taipei University of Business (“NTUB”) in the 2020 Higher Education SPROUT Project was oriented toward the development goals of the institution and based on academic research and analytical needs, which ultimately led to three foundations for the project: innovative teaching, digitalization, and career development. The project has been implemented in the following directions:

A. Preparation of talents in three areas:

We aim at training students with cross-field expertise and critical thinking skills, students with innovative digital application skills, and students seeking public engagement with humanitarian literacy.

B.Assistance for the underprivileged:

We have enhanced assistance for the economically underprivileged and culturally underrepresented students using nine tailored mechanisms of counseling, as well as 17 categories of financial aid.

C. Care for society:

We progressively fuse academia and society by integrating our courses into the workplace. We have diversified the uses of historic industrial sites in Pingxi and advocated for an organic youth farmers’ identification system in Wanli, Tamsui, and Shimen. Meanwhile, we have enhanced the career development awareness of underprivileged youths and promoted knowledge about the taxation system and the environment.

Highlight 1: Teaching quality assurance in alignment with international business management accreditation

• Accredited by the AACSB in July 2020
• Named the most favored higher institution by local enterprises in Taiwan for graduates with expertise in management and finance in 2020

Image 1: NTUB Accredited by the AACSB in July, 2020

Image 2: Graduates performance with expertise in management and finance in 2020

Highlight 2: Development of expertise with capstone courses and certifications

• Integrating course materials with extracurricular contests, our capstone courses elevate the probability of winning to 82.86%. Some works by our students won the 2020 Red Dot Design Award, while some others were featured in the Berlin Film Festival and nominated by the Rome Independent Prisma Awards.
• Those enrolled in the themed design courses enjoy an average rate of winning extracurricular honors that is 9.17 times higher than those who are not.
• We are fully committed to promoting subsidies for obtaining certificates and participating in extracurricular contests. Over 700 sessions of seminars dedicated to a variety of subjects have been held, boosting the growth rate of obtained certificates by 58.73%.

Image 3: Works of students honored by the 2020 Red Dot Design Award

Highlight 3: Cross-field learning and digital competency

• Core courses are consistently advocated, with enrollment growth of nearly 80% compared to that prior to the start of the Project.
• Courses focusing on critical thinking and program design are offered in all academic programs. The numbers of enrolling students in such courses have grown by 50% compared to 2019.

Image 4: Competition of original AI-driven robots

Highlight 4: Core competencies in preparation for professional careers

• As the only institution of higher education in Taiwan awarded with the Blue Bird Honor five years in a roll, we have achieved remarkable results in terms of diversified career development training.
• Our graduates embark on their careers immediately upon graduation, demonstrating the significant success of our career-oriented policy. We have 76 students with certified bookkeeper qualification, 98 qualified entry-level and 10 mid-level intangible assets evaluators, 194 qualified computer software auditors and ERP specialists, 36 certified with anti-money laundering and anti-information-terrorist attack capabilities, 15 certified application planners, nine certified accountants, and 29 that have passed the civil servant entrance examinations.
• We sponsor university-based language tests for students who have not taken any English proficiency tests in order to ensure their language skills prior to graduation.

Image 5: NTUB awarded with the Blue Bird Honor for five consecutive years

Highlight 5: Aid & assistance for underprivileged students

• We have been proactively promoting the strengths and channels of admissions, as well as available resources of our institution, to underprivileged high school and vocation school students not only from the perspective of the institution like before but also from individual programs.
• Financial aid comes with nine counseling mechanisms and is distributed among 17 categories of students.

Highlight 6: Field teaching—enhancement of college social responsibility

• Knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic has been progressively enhanced by means of AI technology in areas such as highway service areas, night markets, and food and agricultural knowledge boosters.
• Courses have been integrated into the workplace to promote awareness of public engagement and reinforce the spirit of social care and service.

Image 6: Agriculture and food knowledge boosters, a workshop with robots

Image 7: AI technology in areas such as highway service areas