Global Vision Magazine recently announced the "Taiwan Best University Rankings 2020." Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology maintained its strong and strong performance last year and ranked 7th among all the universities of science and technology nationwide and 1st in the category of “Universities of Social Sciences.” Of all the universities nationwide, it ranked 15th, surpassing many national public universities. In recent years, under the leadership of the chairman Hsin-Hsiong Chang and President Deng-Maw Lu, supported by the Ministry of Education, STUST has promoted a series of teaching excellence projects, developing Model Science and Technology University Projects, Higher Education Sprout Project, and University Social Responsibility Project. It is obvious that STUST has Performance has achieved fruitful results and won recognition from all walks of life.

【Tenyuan Difang Plaza" is one of the important fields for student activities on campus. As its name suggests, the profound meaning is that students are expected to follow the scientific spirit of the ancients, show their vitality, and move towards innovation, research, and development.】

In this survey, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology ranked 15th in the category of non-technological universities, and 1st of all university of science and technology nationwide. The College of Business passed the International Business Administration Education Accreditation (AACSB) in May 2017. It is the only private technology university in the country to have received this international certification. In view of the actual needs of the industry, STUST has adopted a research-oriented development strategy that puts equal weights on both practice and theory, emphasizing high-quality academic research, cultivating management talents that meet industry needs, and actively providing various practical application assistance programs for the corporate community to promote the introduction of new management technologies and industrial upgrading.

Thanks to the development trends of industry internationalization and global operations management, STUST attaches great importance to the promotion of internationalization work. All the doctoral programs, master programs, and undergraduate departments provide full English teaching courses and send students abroad for short-term studies. There are 198 international students studying in the 2019 academic year for short-term studies or double degree studies. The nationalities of the students are also of great diversity, including 28 countries from Europe, America and Asia. In addition, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences attaches great importance to the quality of teaching. All the departments of the college have passed the quality assurance recognition of the Higher Education Evaluation Center in the 2019 academic year. Among them, the validity period of the Department of Applied English, Applied Japanese and Education Evaluation is made effective for 6 years, which shows his great emphasis on teaching. In addition, the college was granted the USR Project by the Ministry of Education. The Department Senior Services aims at "co-creating green and silver, working together to build a smart and friendly community in the local area," combined with the inter-academic expertise, and exploring the needs of the elderly in the community. The department allows young students to become the power of social caring. All of the above show the intention and professionalism of the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, explaining why it has become the first of all universities of science and technology nationwide in the category of social sciences.

In terms of industry-academia cooperation, teachers and students are actively encouraged to apply for patents with industrial application to increase the opportunities and benefits of future technology transfer. In the 2017 patent issuing list announced by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology has 108 invention patents, domestically ranked third in the field of invention patents issued by the colleges and universities, second only to National Chinghua University and UCKU. It is again the first place among all the universities of Science and Technology. From the 2016 to 2017, it applied for 56 foreign patents and was granted 26 foreign patents. The outstanding performance has made Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology the leader of the all the private University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. As President Deng-Maw Lu of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology said, since the establishment of the School of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology 48 years ago, STUST has been adhering to its motto "Being Faithful, Righteous, and Honest" in nurturing young talents. It has not only been pursuing the "top-level standard school of technical skills," but also practicing to be one. Not only does it continue to move towards "a top-ranking technical school," it but also value practice quite a lot. The goal of STUST is to "benefit the society and build the country." In response to the decline of birth rate, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology refuses to hold a wait-and-see attitude. Instead, it has continued to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years to upgrade its hardware and software facilities, including a plethora of modern multi-functional classrooms, community buildings, Tianyuan Difang Plaza, the Fifty Classrooms, the soon-to-be-completed new rain-proofed stadium, and the art center and central square that are still under construction, among which the art center will also have a modern digital image exhibition space, Obviously, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology has prepared for the needs of future students and laid a good foundation for development. STUST has achieved good results in the best university rankings, and such results will be the driving force for all the teachers and students of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology to continue making great strides toward being a first-class university.