Dr. Shui-Wang Hu and Dr. Chien-Tien Hsu founded Taipei Medical College on June 1, 1960.

Dr. Shui-Wang Hu and Dr. Chien-Tien Hsu, together with other medical professionals and educators, ran the school, using their own personal books as textbooks.

TMU is composed of eleven colleges and one center: There are three affiliated hospitals throughout southern Taipei.

In 2009, a Ministry of Education incentive program promoting university-industry cooperation selected the university to receive more than NT$50 million in grants over three years.

The campus is made up of 10 school buildings, each equipped with instructional rooms as well as research facilities.

The TMU website provides an online campus map.The hospital runs a free shuttle bus to and from the Taipei City Hall MRT stop every 15 minutes.

The university turned to international environmental diplomacy scholars, the former Director of Environmental Protection, Professor Chen Zhongxin, now the Chair Professor of International Health at Taipei Medical University.

He and ten other environmental health professors help the university participate in carbon reduction as well as sustainable management.

The library, located in the United Medical Building's second to fourth floor, contains 150,000 volumes as well as DVDs and movies.

It helps organize and manage the medical mission to São Tomé and Príncipe, a Western Africa island.

Wan Fang Medical Center is the first privately owned and publicly run hospital in Taipei.

Taipei Medical University has earned the National Quality Award and has been accredited by the World Health Organization as an International Safe School.