The College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was originally just the Department of Electrical Engineering, but after 40 years of expansion the number of its students and faculty surpassed 1000, and it could no longer be handled administratively as a department.
目前排名台大第一大學院的電機資訊學院，原來只是帝大時期的一個電氣工學科，經過四十年的擴充，師生人數超過千人，無法在傳統的行政組織下運作，而升格為電機資訊學院。