As the number of colleges expanded, it was upgraded to a provincial university in 1956 as Taiwan Provincial Cheng Kung University, named after Koxinga, a Chinese military leader who drove the Dutch East India Company from Taiwan and founded the Kingdom of Tungning.
随着高校数量增加，该校于 1956 年升格为省立大学，称为“台湾省立成功大学”，以将荷兰东印度公司逐出台湾并创立东宁省的中国军事领袖郑成功的名字命名。