History
History
The school's predecessor, "Minghsin Industrial College", was founded in 1966. In 1993, the five-year and two-year college of business management were added, and the name was officially changed to "Minghsin Industrial and Commercial College". The predecessors’ efforts have continued to expand, and gradually have the scale of a university organization. In July 1997, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was restructured into a "Minghsin Technology College" with a five-year college attached. In August 2002, due to its outstanding school performance and excellent conditions, it was approved to be upgraded to "Minghsin University of Science and Technology" to highlight the school's characteristics and benefit the development of the core value of "pragmatic and practical" higher technical and vocational education.
Based on this, considering the changes in the internal and external environment, aiming at the affiliation of the existing departments (degree programs), institutes, centers, and colleges, to coordinate and integrate educational resources, the "work" and "management" are now established, "Service Industry", "Humanities and Design" and other four colleges, the scale of sustainable school development. At the same time, to determine the school's position and overall school development goals, the board of directors, all colleagues and alumni will uphold the unity of will and pool their efforts to build the school into an "applied comprehensive science and technology university of cross-domain integration, and pragmatic innovation in the 21st century" as its mission. It is hoped to optimize the competitiveness of Taiwan's service industry, benefit the people’s quality of life and social well-being and cultivate "hotel and catering, child care, leisure and recreation, senior-friendly" and other service industries and management professionals.
The college currently has the Department of Hotel Management and Culinary Creativity, the Department of Child Care (Institute), the Department of Leisure Business Management, the Department of Senior Service Industry Management (the establishment of the Elderly University), and the Service Industry Management Research Institute with cross-domain integration functions, a teacher training center for all-round professional preschool teachers, with a total of four departments, two research institutes, and one teacher training center.