Current Student FAQ

Current Students FAQ: International & Overseas Chinese Degree Students

1. NTU Mail: Please pay close attention to messages from the OIA and the Department. Regularly check your NTU email, as important announcements will be sent periodically.
2. Work Permit: International Degree Students who wish to apply for the Work Permit, please refer to the OIA’s website (link). To complete part of the “Work Permit Application Consent Form for NTU International Students” form (download), please contact Ms. Tzu-Yu (Nina) CHEN at nina222chen@ntu.edu.tw. Overseas Chinese Students, please contact the Overseas Student Advising Division (學務處僑生及陸生輔導組).
3. CE Professors Emails: You can find Civil Engineering Professors’ information on our website at https://www.ce.ntu.edu.tw/en/home/ → People → All Faculty Members
4. ARC: To renew your ARC before your tuition fees are fully paid off, please go to the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA), use the vending machine in front of the Office to apply for the “Certificate of Continuing Enrollment” and “Certificate of Expected Graduation,” and get the above-mentioned documents from the OAA’s counter. With these supplemental documents, you should be able to renew the ARC.
5. Leave-Taking: If you are not able to attend a class, you need to file an application through myNTU for taking a leave & write an email to the course instructor. Please apply well in advance! (myNTU → NTU Life Information → Student Leave)
6. myNTU: English Version (E-Portfolio & Personal Information of Advisee): Please update your Taiwan cellphone number, mailing address, and at least one Taiwan emergency contact.
7. Prayer Room: To use the 3 Prayer Rooms in NTU. For more information, please browse OIA website (link, scroll down to “Useful Spaces”).
8. Laptop Model: As long as your laptop can run the Autodesk Revit, it is good enough.
9. NTU OIA: AY 2023/2024 Post-Arrival Guidebook for International Degree Students: (link)
10. NTU Academic Calendar: (link)
11. Direct-Entry Doctoral Degree Programs: Current master’s students having completed at least one semester of study may, with the recommendation of two professors from their associated academic program, apply for entry into a direct-entry doctoral degree program (“direct-entry Ph.D. program”). Regulations Governing Direct-Entry Doctoral Degree Programs and more information can be found at the Office of Academic Affairs website.

1. Course Selection Regulations (Promulgated on January 9, 2020): (link)
   國立臺灣大學學生選課辦法 (110.06.24發布): (link)

2. Course Selection Guide (provided by OIA): (link)
3. Course Selection Tips: You have many required courses to take in Year 1. Please fill your timetable with the required courses first, because they will help you to build the necessary foundations for the following Civil Engineering courses. If you have more time and energy, you can then take some elective courses and so on.
4. CE Course List: For an overview of courses for our undergraduate programs, please visit link.
5. Pre-requisite: At NTUCE, only 1 course throughout the 4-year program has a pre-requisite: you need to pass Calculus 1 & 2 before taking Engineering Math II.
6. Chinese Courses:
   • If you have taken the Chinese language courses for 2 consecutive semesters, you are done with the Chinese courses.
   • CE Department has filed special permission to enroll our international students to take “Chinese for International Students” instead. Do not drop the course as you wish.
   • General Chinese courses for international students are pre-assigned for freshmen and often reach full capacity. If you withdraw from these ‘guaranteed’ courses, it is difficult to re-enroll.

7. English courses: If you have successfully applied for both the English course exemptions and the “Online English Program” exemption (link), you are done with the Language requirements.
8. Service Learning Courses:

   You are free to choose any combination of Student Service Education courses (A+A, A+B, B+B). However, if you wish to take Student Service Education A, it must be offered by our Department. Courses offered by other Departments may be restricted to their students. Please select the courses that are available to you.

9. Physical Education: The Fitness course is a prerequisite for all other PE courses and is pre-assigned. If you wish to enroll in a Fitness course, please email the course instructor to inquire about availability. The instructor has the discretion to enroll you based on class size. If the instructor agrees to include you, they will provide a permission number, which you can use to add the course through the Course Selection System by the end of the 2nd week.
10. Course Selection Videos:
    Course Selection (Part 1): (link)
    Course Selection (Part 2): (link)
    Undergraduate Programs (Civil Engineering 101): (link)

11. Add a course after the semester starts: If you want to enroll in a course that has not yet being added to your course timetable, please go to the first day of class, ask the instructor for the course-adding permission number, and add the course via Course Selection System. The course instructor has the liberty to enroll you in the class according to the class size.
12. Study Resources – CTLD: The Center for Teaching and Learning Development (教學發展中心, CTLD) hires tutors to provide tutoring services for students in need to deal with problems encountered in basic subjects, such as Calculus, Statistics, General Physics, etc. Check & make the online reservation here.
13. NTUCE Student Association:
    • NTUCE International Student Group Facebook: (link)
    • Instagram: @ntucesa (link)
    • NTUCE Student Association Facebook: (link)

1. Student Manuals: For graduation requirements of each division, please refer to our Student Manual (link, scroll down).
2. Selection of Courses: Please contact & discuss with your advisor what courses to take before registering online for the courses.

1. ARC: Once you graduate from NTU, your ARC (on which, the purpose of stay is “Study at NTU”) will be cancelled within 2 weeks. However, if you wish to find a full-time job, internship, or apply for other VISAs to remain in Taiwan, you may apply for a 6-month ARC extension (for a total length of two year). All you need to do is to take your NTU diploma to the National Immigration Office and apply for the ARC extension.
2. Work in Taiwan after graduating from NTU: Please read “Overseas Chinese or Foreign Student Graduated in the R.O.C. to Work in Taiwan” from the WorkForce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor, for further information (link).