[3] Fu Jen has consists of twelve colleges and schools, among which are several of Taiwan's first or only academic units in Italian language, info-management, museology, religious studies, philosophy.

Fu Jen alumni include Premier Lin Chuan, former First Lady of China Wang Guangmei, and politicians in the Legislative Yuan.

[13] The institution was originally established in Beijing in 1925 by the Benedictines of St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at the request of the Holy See, with Archabbot Aurelius Stehle serving as chancellor.

Well-known scientists such as Chien Shih-Liang taught at Fu Jen, and graduates such as Lee C. Teng and Wang Guangmei became famous alumni.

[citation needed] The new Fu Jen's academics sprouted from Western history, medieval philosophy, Christian thought, and European languages.

Since the 1960s, the university's philosophical tradition has been Scholasticism and Paul Yu Pin's "Three Kinds of Knowing" (三知論), focusing on the development of a Catholic philosophy that incorporates Confucianism and opposing the "relativism hegemony.

"[18][19] During the thirty years of the Cold War, many Western priests and nuns were sent to teach at the university and imported advanced scholarship into Taiwan.

Many professors have been commended for this in recent years, such as Daniel Ross from the United States, Leopoldo Vicente from Spain, Marcina Stawasz from Poland, etc.

The establishment of a completely new curriculum and unique program will include training in hospital management and medical translation, research in laser technology and biotechnology, integration of Western and Chinese medicine, and robotic surgery.

[25] The university motto, 真、善、美、聖 (Veritas, Bonitas, Pulchritudo, Sanctitas in Latin), expresses four ideals: truth, goodness, beauty and sanctity.

In the white terror period of the cold war, Fu Jen was able to prevent the Kuomintang regime from interfering in school affairs and protect the students' freedom of speech under the serious concern of the Secretariat of State (Holy See).

After the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 came into effect in 1971, Fu Jen is the only university in Taiwan that has continuously participated in UNESCO for a long time.

[29] All the traditional Taiwanese ambassadors to the Holy See will be awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Fu Jen after leaving office.

[30] The appointment and removal of the post of Fu Jen university president is a matter of inquiry by the Secretary of State of the Holy See, and has been compared with the membership of the United Nations of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

[31] The issue of the internal reorganization of Fu Jen has also widely affected the intervention of the Ministry of Education of the two countries and the papal nuncio to Taiwan.

In order to successfully practice PBL, the School has recruited basic scientists with specialties in various areas as well as more than one hundred clinicians as a strong backbone for teaching.

The main journals are as follows: Fu Jen Academia Catholica was inaugurated on August 1, 2008, to enable interdisciplinary pursuits in Catholic studies.

Fu Jen ranks at the top of Taiwan's private universities for top-ranked fields of study and distinguished alumni.

[58][59] Fu Jen College of Management is one of the best business schools in Taiwan, with highly internationalization and powerful Amazon Web Services cloud computing teaching resources.

In recent years, Fu Jen has consecutively ranked first among private schools in the National Intercollegiate Athletic Games in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

In the field of business, in addition to the famous "red capitalist" Wang Guangying, the Tsai family of the LinYuan Group, the world's top 100 richest enterprises, and the Taiwanese billionaire Wu family of Shin Kong Group, all have several people graduated from Fu Jen, such as Taishin International Bank chairman Thomas Wu (吳東亮), Shinkong Insurance CEO Peter Wu (吳東賢), Cathay Real Estate Development Co. CEO Tsai Chen-hung (蔡辰鴻), COTC president Thomas Tsai (蔡辰威).

Tsuo (左元淮), Franz-porcelains founder Franz Chen (陳立恆), and the "IKEA of Taiwan" Test Rite International Co. co-founder Tony Ho (何湯雄).

Chen (陳致遠) is a member of the world's 11th largest shipping company- Wan Hai Lines and the chairman of Epistar Optoelectronics.

Internationally renowned figures include the 2018 Man Booker International Prize nomination novelist Wu Mingyi (吳明益), 2009 Orwell Prize winner Hsiao-Hung Pai (白曉紅), poet Lin Yang-min (林央敏), writer Chang Ta-chun (張大春), and many directors and actors such as Stan Lai (賴聲川), Wu Nien-jen (吳念真), Terry Hu (胡一虎), Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), Nicky Wu (吳奇隆), Reen Yu (喻虹淵), and Vivian Sung (宋芸樺).

In 2016, Fu Jen University was accused of pressuring students to remain silent on sexual assault cases and for covering up an incident of rape in 2015.