The locally eminent personage Chen Chi-chuan generously donated the land for the campus, and the first institute of higher learning in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung area was thus established.
許多新生考上高醫，本來以為被「發配邊疆」，註冊時內心「淒風苦雨」，等到入學後慢慢認清了環境，心中的一塊大石頭才倏然落下。