The university has been ranked as top 300 by Times Higher Education Impact Ranking, top 100 in theology and top 500 in humanities and medicine by QS World University Rankings, it has the nation's first business school there with AACSB accreditation and also the medical college was the earliest to promote PBL as pedagogy for medical education, furthermore, the transnational joint master's program "MGEM" was ranked 19th globally by Financial Times in 2020. In the past nearly one hundred years of history, the Benedictine, the Divine Word Missionaries, and the Jesuits from all over the world have participated in the management of the university.
The campus is served by Fu Jen University Station, Taiwan's first metro station named after a university.įu Jen is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit-affiliated institution of higher education in the Sinophone world, especially known for its strong ties with the Roman Curia. Fu Jen has since grown to comprise twelve colleges and schools, among which are several Taiwan's first/only academic units, such as Italian language, info-management, museology, religious studies, philosophy as well as hosts the earliest A&HCI journal in the whole country. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at the request of Pope John XXIII, its name means "assistance" and "benevolence".
Fu Jen Catholic University ( FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen Chinese: 天主教輔仁大學 or 輔仁大學) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan.