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From ITS Indonesia to CGU Taiwan: My 2+2 Dual Degree Experience

Chang Gung university is Research-Oriented university Recognized as a top research university in Taiwan, particularly in biomedical sciences, engineering, and healthcare management. Chang Gung university located in No. 259, Wenhua 1st Rd, Guishan District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. It is established at April 1987. Chang Gung University offers programs through its three main colleges which are college of medicine, college of engineering, and college of management.

I come from physics engineering in Institute Technology Sepuluh November  Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia. Institute Technology Sepuluh November is one of the top ten private university in Indonesia. Institute Technology Sepuluh November is research-oriented university that known particularly in engineering. I study in Institute Technology Sepuluh November for two years before my study in Chang Gung University.

I currently studying in mechanical engineering departments with 2+2 double degree programs and will be studying at Chang Gung university for approximately two years from Fall 2024 to Fall 2026.I learned about Chang Gung university by seeing their website after I got a news about my study abroad for my International Undergraduate Program in Institute Technology Sepuluh November. I got the news about my study abroad in Taiwan about 2 months before my departure. So for two months before my departure I prepared for my first time study abroad by searching for transportation, food, and super market in Taiwan mostly in YouTube or google. In that two month I also learning some basic mandarin with the mandarin learning application on google play store. After two months of preparation, I also contact an Indonesian student that study in Chang Gung university to be guide for me and my friend that also come with me. That Indonesian student helped me and my friend a lot to be able to adapt living in Taiwan and helping us to learn anything that we need to learn as a student that study abroad.

Chang Gung have five dormitory which are Yide building, Chongde building, Yunde building, Jude building, Mingde building. I currently stay at Ju De dormitory inside Chang Gung university. Chang Gung dormitory room have a complete room feature to support my daily life like bed, table, chair, air conditioner, free internet access. Beside complete room feature, Chang Gung university dormitory provide a water dispenser, washing machine, and study room in every floor. In the Basement first beside the car parking lot there is a family mart. That is the best feature for me beside free internet access and bathroom because I usually buy food and snack from there when I am busy with my homework.

Chang Gung university has two big building. The first one is the Student activity centre. It have a Indoor basketball court, indoor badminton court, billiard room, table tennis room, etc that can be freely used by Chang Gung university students in the operate time. I usually play billiard in billiard room or playing badminton in indoor field with my friend in my free time or when waiting for the next class. The second big building is the main campus building where Advanced research labs and teaching facilities and Libraries and resource centers. The Libraries have a complete book literature for my study or any other major and a comfortable study space. I usually come to library to study in the study space or having a break in the audio room in the fifth floor of library.


By Rafi Akmal Arifin
From: Indonesia
Program: Department of Mechanical Engineering