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Hsiuping University of Science and Technology

Private university in Taiwan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ10888084 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Hsiuping University of Science and Technology (HUST; Chinese: 修平科技大學; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siu-pêng Kho-ki Tāi-ha̍k) is a private university in Dali District, Taichung, Taiwan.

HUST offers a wide range of academic programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering, Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences.

The university has eight colleges, including the College of Engineering, the College of Management, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the College of Health Sciences.

History

HUST was originally established as Shu-Teh Junior College of Home Economics in 1965. In 1970, it was renamed to Shu-Teh Junior College of Technology. In 1994, it was again renamed to Shu-Teh Junior College of Technology and Commerce. In 2000, the ROC Minister of Education finally recognized the college as Hsiuping Institute of Technology and finally as Hsiuping University of Science and Technology in 2011.

Editorial summary

“Hsiuping University of Science and Technology” enters the record as private university in Taiwan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hsiuping, University and Science can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1970, 1994, 2000—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1966, 1965—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hsiuping, University and Science.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Hsiuping University of Science and Technology” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hsiuping, University and Science provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10888084. Authority coordinates are 24.097, 120.712. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1970, 1994 and 2000.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hsiuping University of Science and Technology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.