Located in the Taipei's peripheral city Mu-Cha, the Department of Graphic Commuication and Technology in the Shih Hsin (World News) University has a faculty of 28 (14 adjuncts) and a student body of 700 in two annual intakes of printing production and one class of photography. Upgraded from a college since 1995 Shih Hsin is a private university specialized in media production and communication, deriving its support mainly from tuitions, currently at NT100k/student-year. The printing production study stream combines traditional press printing and pre-press graphics production with a departmental emphasis in color image processing. This stream requires 149 credits for graduation.