Since its inception as a university, Tamkang has had six scholar-educators serving as presidents: Clement C. P. Chang, Yea-Hong Chen, Louis R. Chow, Yun-Shan Lin, Horng-Jinh Chang, Flora Chia-I Chang, and the current president, Huan-Chao Keh, who assumed the presidency on August 1st, 2018. President Huan-Chao Keh will lead TKU to continue developing and constructing the “Fifth Wave of Tamkang,” enhance Tamkang Culture, refine and activate organization, strive for resources of industry, government and alumni and cooperate with the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Sprout Project, the government’s "5+2" core industries and artificial intelligence industrial applications, as well as the New South-bound Policy. As the new course of development of the "Fifth Wave of Tamkang" was launched "The Transcending Period," taking the vision of the "Collaboratively Creation of a Great Tamsui; Embracing a Smart and Magnificent Future", Tamkang implements local links, regional cooperation, international chains and innovation practice. 

Tamkang’s administrative teams have applied innovative strategies to promote the Three Circles and Five Disciplines of Education. The “Three Circles” refer to Tamkang’s professional curriculum, general curriculum, and extracurricular curriculum, while the “Five Disciplines of Education” include conduct, intelligence, physical education, teamwork, and beauty. TKU has nurtured academic growth through its “Triple Objectives of Education,” which refers to globalization (the spatial pattern of the future), information-oriented education (the life pattern of the future), and future-oriented education (the time frame of the future). With its motto of “Simplicity, Truthfulness, Firmness, and Perseverance,” Tamkang strives to fully develop students’ potential. It aims to help every Tamkangian establish a firm foothold at school and seeks to become a world-renowned, top quality comprehensive university by providing students with the most modern learning resources and training possible.