National Taiwan University incorporates interdisciplinary achievements into its faculty evaluation and academic recognition systems. Contributions to cross-disciplinary research, collaborative projects, and interdisciplinary education are considered important components of academic performance.
According to NTU's faculty promotion regulations, promotion evaluation is based on the overall performance of research, teaching, and service, and international collaboration is explicitly listed as one of the distinguished achievements that may justify priority recommendation for promotion. In addition, promotion cases for jointly appointed faculty are handled by the primary appointing unit and the affiliated college, indicating that NTU's promotion framework accommodates cross-unit appointments and collaboration.
Promotion review also relies on external peer review and, where necessary, discipline-specific expert review panels, enabling research contributions involving multiple areas of expertise to be assessed by qualified scholars.
Through university-level academic honors, NTU recognizes faculty members whose work demonstrates outstanding academic excellence and societal impact. These honors include the NTU Chair Professorships, Distinguished Professorships, and several institutional awards for research and teaching.
NTU further recognizes interdisciplinary excellence through university-level honors and recently established endowed chair and fellowship programs since 2023–2024, including Garmin, Raymond Soong, and biomedical-related chair professorships, as well as the Excelsior Scholar Fellowship. These mechanisms support global talent recruitment, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and innovation, strengthening NTU's capacity to address complex societal challenges.