[2] According to Times Higher Education, both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among Taiwanese universities.
In 1997, the graduate institute founded bachelor's program and become Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering.
In 2000, the department founded its first executive master's program, the alumni include the Da-Kuei Lin (林大馗), the vice-president of KPMG Cyber Security in Taiwan.
[7] In 2001, NDHU CSIE established the 1st PhD program in Computer Science and Information Engineering in Eastern Taiwan.
[8] In 2010, the department started English-taught classes and accepting international students application undergraduate, master, PhD.