National Taiwan University, formerly known as Taihoku Imperial University, was founded in 1928 during the Japanese Colonial Era when Japan wanted to cultivate colonial talent and study Southeast Asia. After the Second World War, the university was restructured and renamed National Taiwan University.
Faculties of Liberal Arts, Law, Medicine, and many others have been added since and it has become the most comprehensive university in Taiwan, attended by large numbers of students.
Since its founding, the university has cultivated many of the world’s most accomplished and talented individuals, especially in the fields of science and engineering, law, and politics.
The large campus has a unified architectural style mainly centered around the long east–west avenue planted with rows of coconut palms on either side to create a subtropical landscape. Coconut Boulevard has many classical buildings on each side, including the Library, the Colleges of Science, Agriculture, and Liberal Arts, and the Administration Buildings, which have quite an academic atmosphere.
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