Meet the people
who walk with you.

Highest Degree PhD in Business Administration, NCKU

A good idea needs more than to be seen — it needs the strength to keep going.

A place's culture, something your community is already doing, or an issue you truly care about — any of these can be where change begins.

Strategy and management teach us more than how to compete. They teach us how to find direction under limited conditions, connect with partners, and bring resources together so that what truly matters can last.

You don't need to arrive with a fully formed plan. A concern for your hometown, something you want to change, even an idea you can't yet put into words — all of it deserves to be taken seriously.

Give a good idea the chance to become an action that lasts.

Highest Degree PhD in Design, Lancaster University, UK

One day, you too can start from your own culture and take part in defining the future.

Coming to university, you can bring your culture in with you.

If you come from a tribal community, what you know may not match what's written in textbooks. The stories you heard from your elders, the way your family speaks, the protocols of ceremony, what the land has taught you — none of this may appear in a textbook either.

All of it matters. That, too, is knowledge.

I am Indigenous too. I hope that after you arrive here, while learning how others understand the world, you will also come to see that your own culture, life experience, and way of seeing things can just as well be a starting point for understanding the world.

You can become who you want to be, and you can carry your culture with you to go further.

Together, we will learn how to listen to our people, understand culture, and ask questions — and also how to use design and research to express our own perspective clearly.

One day, when someone asks you, “What should the future of Indigenous peoples look like?” I hope you will have enough knowledge and enough confidence to answer: our future is something we can help define too.

Highest Degree PhD in Adult Education, NKNU

We will all grow old. What matters is how we hope to age.

Ageing is not only about the body and care. It's also about whether, at each stage of life, a person can still make their own choices, keep familiar relationships, take part in what they love, and live in the place they cherish.

So before we study the ageing industry, we first try to understand the lives of older people.

Your experience of caring for family, your memories of time spent with elders in your community, even a small observation from daily life — all of these can help us understand anew what kind of service and support is truly needed.

What we learn is not only how to respond to ageing, but how to give every person the chance to age well.

Highest Degree PhD in Adult Education, NKNU

Behind every number, there is a person.

A budget line, a resource, a percentage — these may look like mere numbers. But when resources are placed in different places, they can change a family, a community, even a single person's choices.

That is why we study economics.

We start from everyday life to understand why resources are limited and how choices happen, and we think together: when people start from different conditions, what kind of distribution gives more people the chance to choose and to grow?

You don't need to be afraid of numbers.

Because studying economics isn't just about calculating faster — it's about understanding the world we live in more clearly.

Learn to read the numbers, and always remember to see the people behind them.