National Chi Nan University (NCNU; Chinese: 國立暨南國際大學)[3] is a public university located in Puli Township, Nantou County, Taiwan.

The first classes of undergraduates registered in September 1996, along with the official opening of the campus.

When the devastating 1999 Jiji earthquake struck Nantou County on 21 September 1999 (921), all major buildings and dormitories in campus were critically damaged, and the University suffered a great loss of equipment and basic infrastructure.

President Ricard Lee had led the three-day evacuation of the entire student body and the provisional relocation to the campus of National Taiwan University in Taipei City for one semester.

NCNU has four colleges: Education, Humanities, Management, and Science and Technology.