University expenditure

1. NCUE’s total expenditure in 2025 was NTD 2,087,412,863, including actual operating costs and expenses of NTD 2,023,570,142 and non-operating expenses of NTD 63,842,721, as shown in Figure 1.

2. NCUE’s final accounts for 2025 are available through the University’s Information Disclosure Zone: Information Disclosure Zone > Financial Information Analysis > Financial Planning Report > 2025 Financial Planning Report

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University expenditure on arts and heritage

1. NCUE places great importance on the development of the arts and the protection of cultural heritage. From 2022 to 2025, the university's total expenditure on arts and heritage has shown a growing trend (Figure 2).

2. NCUE’s expenditure on arts and heritage in 2025 totaled NTD 40,326,120. It covered building repairs for the protection of tangible heritage, intangible cultural heritage and cultural transmission, arts and exhibitions, public use and operation of the library, and other arts resources, as set out in Table 1.

3. Since 2021, the Department of Fine Arts has been planning the "NCUE Campus Aesthetics Project," under which the implementing unit forms a committee that, through open submission activities or exhibition-based recommendations, purchases student artworks or obtains licenses for their use, displaying the artworks in public spaces on campus. This brings artistic energy onto campus and creates a diverse environment for art appreciation. In 2025, 13 student artworks were selected and purchased, with NTD 274,600 in rewards disbursed.

4. Public use of the library and related expenditure: NCUE’s Office of Library and Information Services provides library access to visitors for reading all year round. Visitors may apply for a reading card or a borrowing card under the relevant regulations, and the library provides reading seats, catalogue searches and related public services. The regulations on public use and borrowing and the catalogue search system are published on the University website. Library operating expenditure in 2025 was NTD 34,543,738, which is included in NCUE’s arts and heritage expenditure.

5. Heritage preservation and arts activities held in 2025:

(1) Indigenous Student Resource Center: NTD 588,181 on intangible cultural heritage preservation and arts activities in 2025.

(2) Center for General Education: NTD 238,242 on arts and cultural activities in 2025. This is the actual cost of the public arts and cultural activities the Center ran in 2025, all of which were open to local residents free of charge.

(3) Department of Fine Arts: NTD 1,016,831 in 2025 for 17 exhibitions, all open to local residents free of charge.

(4) Student club arts and cultural activities: NTD 1,339,506 invested in 2025.

(5) Department of Chinese: NTD 38,863 in 2025 for four exhibitions to broaden the cultural literacy of faculty and students, all open to local residents free of charge.

(6) Department of English drama production: NCUE funds the Department’s annual English drama production each year, spending NTD 180,000 in 2025. The production encourages English learning at NCUE and across central Taiwan, supports cultural exchange between the University and neighboring communities, and fosters an appreciation of the arts.

(7) Graduate Institute of Technology and Adolescent English (GITAE) drama production: GITAE spent NTD 8,917 on its 2025 production, staged free of charge for children of NCUE’s affiliated kindergarten. The production also promotes exchange and resources sharing between the University, the kindergarten and the local community, creates a participatory and inclusive setting for arts learning, and strengthen cultural ties between the campus and the community.

(8) USR and USR Hub arts activities and exhibitions: NCUE’s USR Project “Ecological Healing and Green Sustainability: Changhua Ecological Art Project” and USR Hub project “Huangxi Aesthetics in Action: Changhua Xiaoxi Lane Project” held a number of free arts activities and exhibitions in 2025, at a total cost of NTD 557,534.

(9) International artists’ mural project: NCUE invited eight artists from the Malaysian Artists Society and distinguished NCUE alumnus Yoon Sooi Chong to create four large public murals on the theme of “life education” at the Hu-Bin Building on the Jinde Campus and on the Shida Campus, at a cost of NTD 28,580. The project created campus art spaces that integrate art, aesthetic education and life education. The completed murals are open free of charge to visitors from inside and outside the University.

(10) Local cultural experiences for international students: NCUE spent NTD 218,998 in 2025 on cross-disciplinary local cultural experience activities to broaden international students’ understanding of Taiwanese culture. These activities also supported local industries, strengthened community cultural resilience and promoted cultural preservation.