Shih Chien University

Key Highlights

• Private Taiwanese university founded in 1958 and granted university status in 1997
• Two-campus institution with distinct academic offerings in Taipei and Kaohsiung
• Active 2026–2027 international degree admissions
• Official history reports approximately 12,000 students across the university

Student Life & Environment

Student life depends strongly on campus and housing choice. At the Taipei campus, the official campus map identifies student restaurants, common areas, specialist studios, student-association offices, and two student-dormitory buildings. Facilities shown for design students include fashion workshops, photography space, sewing rooms, and other specialist work areas. These features support a campus experience in which practical coursework and student activity share a compact urban setting. The Office of International Affairs describes furnished accommodation with beds, desks, storage, communal space, and on-site management. Its current housing page identifies an on-campus women’s residence at the Taipei campus with four- and six-person rooms. It separately lists men’s accommodation at two off-campus addresses in Taipei, offering several room configurations. Students should not assume that all applicants receive an on-campus place or that the same arrangements apply in Kaohsiung; availability, eligibility, price, and assignment should be confirmed directly for the relevant intake. International students can use the Office of International Affairs for admissions and student-service guidance. The university also publishes scholarship, exchange, internship, employment, and work-permit information. Students planning paid work must follow Taiwan’s work-permit rules, while those seeking campus employment can investigate administrative, teaching-support, research-assistant, project, and campus-service roles described by the university.

Location & Surroundings

The Taipei campus is at No. 70, Dazhi Street in Zhongshan District, Taipei. This profile’s stored city refers to that main campus; it does not represent the university’s separate Kaohsiung campus. Applicants should verify the teaching location for their program before comparing housing or travel costs. Dazhi is an urban district served by Taipei’s public-transport network. The university’s international office emphasizes access to the MRT and advises students looking off campus to prioritize proximity to a station. The setting gives students access to the services, cultural venues, employers, and transport connections of Taiwan’s capital, but independent renting may cost substantially more than a dormitory place. Housing patterns affect the daily experience. The university lists women’s accommodation on the Taipei campus and men’s residences at off-campus addresses elsewhere in Zhongshan District. Consequently, commute and neighborhood conditions vary even among Taipei students. The Kaohsiung campus offers a different city and academic environment and should not be treated as interchangeable with Taipei when evaluating climate, cost, transportation, or proximity to particular departments.

Costs & Career Outcomes

The university’s international office publishes planning estimates rather than final 2026–2027 charges. It estimates tuition and miscellaneous fees at about NT$55,000–60,000 per semester for design-related programs, NT$48,000–53,000 for management, law, humanities, and human-ecology programs, and NT$70,000–80,000 for English-taught international programs. The page explicitly says actual fees are governed by the current annual announcement, so students should obtain a program-specific bill before making a financial commitment. The same planning page estimates on-campus dormitory costs at approximately NT$10,000–27,000 per semester, private off-campus rent at NT$8,000–15,000 per month, and ordinary living costs at NT$10,000–15,000 per month. Insurance and program-specific charges may add to the budget. These are estimates, and Taipei and Kaohsiung costs should not be assumed to be identical. The 2026–2027 brochure contains scholarship rules, including tuition-waiver arrangements for qualifying international students. Eligibility, academic and conduct conditions, exclusions for recipients of certain full government scholarships, and payment timing matter: scholarship applicants may need to pay the full bill first, with an award issued later in the semester. For career development, the university’s 2026 Career Taiwan initiative describes counseling, skills training, corporate matching, internships, and employment support for international students interested in working in Taiwan. The university also advertises campus work-study opportunities. These services are useful pathways, not guarantees of an internship, job, salary, or permission to work; international students must separately satisfy Taiwan’s work-permit requirements.