As one of the oldest colleges among the private universities in Taiwan, the College of Science consists of 3 departments, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, and 1 Graduate Institute of Life Sciences. The Departments of Mathematics and Chemistry have been established since 1958; and the Department of Physics was founded in 1963. All of the three departments offer 3 programs: undergraduate, master, and Ph.D. In order to tally with the market trend in the 21st century and to integrate both fields in basic science and biotechnology, the Graduate Institute of Life Sciences was therefore established in 2003.