The school was established in 1927 in
Nanjing, which was the capital city of China, as the
Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China)
Central School of Party Affairs () to train Party cadre. In 1929, it was renamed the
Central Political Institute (), after the Kuomintang reunified much of China in the
Northern Expedition. The school was built on the basis of , which was the highest academic institution of the
Republic of China. In 1946, it merged with the Central Youth Cadre School (), which had been founded in 1943 by the
Three Principles of the People Youth Corps in of
Chongqing. The merged school was named the
National Political University (, aka the National Central Political University []) and was based again in Nanjing. When the Nationalist government lost control of mainland China and relocated to Taiwan in 1949, the university's activities were suspended. The university was reopened in 1954 as
National Chengchi University in the
Muzha District of
Taipei by the
Executive Yuan, in order to meet the needs of civil service and the growing demands of higher education in Taiwan. It became a pioneer for the subsequent restoration in Taiwan of other national universities from China, such as
Tsing Hua and
Chiao Tung universities. Initially, only graduate students were admitted, but later in 1955, the school began to offer places to undergraduate students. In 1960, the university awarded the very first
Doctor of Juridical Science degree in the Republic of China. In 1964, the school initiated the first-ever
Mandarin-based Chinese
Master of Business Administration program in the world. Traditionally, as a modern institution training for public servants, NCCU is considered one of the leading institutions in Taiwan. Today, the school is one of the top universities in Taiwan, and has been elected as the Aim for the Top University Project sponsored school of the
Ministry of Education. In 2014, the
Representative Office of Japan in Taiwan listed NCCU as one of the seven well-known Taiwanese universities. In December 2019, NCCU established its first overseas office in Bangkok, Thailand. ==Organization==