Formerly known as Taipei State Yilan Agriculture and Forestry School, the only well-known institution of higher learning founded during the Japanese occupation in 1926. National Yilan University, Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan, three top 10 engineering universities in the United States, a total of 15 first-class European and American universities, jointly won 5 million US dollars from Leona and Harry Holmsley Charitable Trust Fund to jointly promote the VIP program.