With the approval of setting-up and recruitment by Ministry of Education, the graduate Institute launched into admissive exams at Apr 28th to May 1st in 2000. Our students are encouraged to acquaint with professional knowledge concerning with cultural administration and management. After the official establishment at Aug 1st ,our principal Kun-Liang Chiu 邱坤良 endeavor to diversify teaching approaches in the company of combination of faculty and campus resources. The chair at presence, Professor Mei-Chu Wang 王美珠, specializes in musicology, cross-field music studies, music aesthetics, music sociology and music linguistics. In addition to the above-mentioned attempts, we position ourselves as a research academy in consideration of the differentiation from other departments of creation and performance and of the academic specialty shared with the graduate Institute of Architecture and Historic Preservation and the graduate Institute of Folk Arts, which at the same time, is the basis for resources development as to promote our research ability.

•Combination with various departments
　In cooperation with distinguished artists from other departments in our school, our faculty is not only composed of experienced professors but also designs a series of courses pertain to creative thinking. For instance, Prof Stan Lai 賴聲川 from the Department of Theater, is the artistic director of "Performance Workshop", one of the most renowned theater groups in Taiwan. Prof Tzong-Ching Ju 朱宗慶 from the Department of Music plays a leading role in percussion instrument as well as dedicates himself to cultivate the new generation. Prof Peggy Chiao from the Department of Filmmaking earns her fame in film critics and teaching.
By drawing support form considerable achievements of these professors, we set courses applying to creation, theory and practice of managing the performance groups. Mr. Shyi-Kun Yu, Premiere of the Executive Yuan, Prof Chi-Nan Chen, Minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs and Prof Tsai-Lang Huang, Director of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, were invited to deliver lectures.
　Moreover, we have Prof Lan Kuei Huang 黃蘭貴, who is expert on Accounting, and Prof Jen-I Liao 廖仁義, who achieves his prestige through the practice of international cultural exchanges and academic background of arts theories, as our full-time professors.

• Strategic Alliance with the College of Commerce of National Chengchi University
　By establishing the reciprocal relationship with NCCU, we offer lectures if arts and plan artistic activities for them while NCCU gives us an aid to have courses of management and marketing strategies.

•Passing-on of practical experience from experts in cultural creative industries
　We focus on the academic research as well as on the implementation of theories. On this basis, classes are designed to meet the needs. " Forum on Cultural Industry and Art Management ," for instance, in which the distinguished experts and scholars in the field of cultural business are invited to deliver a series of speeches, includes lecturing the multi-strategies of marketing, propaganda and management and sharing personal experience in combination with local/foreign marketing cases etc..

•Full-time professors

	Prof. Kun-Liang Chiu
		Professional title	President
		Education	The Seventh University of Paris, Ph.D
		Curriculum	Forum on Creative Industries Management Environment of Arts Forum on Cultural Industries and Arts Management Research Methods Independent Study
		Expertise	Environment of Arts History of Taiwanese Theatre

•Part-time professors