As Taiwan’s oldest established graduate program in American Studies, Tamkang University’s Graduate Institute of American Studies has steadily enjoyed a reputation for excellence since it was first founded in 1973. In 1983, for example, the ROC Ministry of Education rated the Institute as No.1 in the field of international studies in the country. And in 1992, the Institute’s primary publication on American Studies was acclaimed the best of ten university journals by the same governmental agency.