The College of Social Sciences is located at No. 21 Hsu-Chow Road , Taipei City, one of the campuses of the National Taiwan University . This campus was formerly the location of the Taipei Secondary Business School during the Japanese colonial era. Prior to the end of the World War II, the School was changed to the Taipei Economic Professional College . After the Japanese surrender in 1945, the School was taken over by the government to establish the Taiwan Provincial College of Law and Business under the Taiwan Provincial Government. Due to the Taiwan Provincial Government's limited budget, the Taiwan Provincial College of Law and Business was integrated in 1947 into the already established College of Law of the National Taiwan University -- which consisted of the Department of Law, the Department of Political Science & the Department of Economics. In August of 1948, the Department of Commerce was established -- at the time this was Taiwan 's only management education department. In 1959, the Commerce Department was divided into the Business Administration Division, International Trade Division, and Accounting and Banking Division. In 1960, the College of Law established the Department of Sociology. In the same year, the Department of Law, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Economics all set up divisions within their respective departments in order to provide students a better environment for education.

In 1955, the College of Law established its first graduate school: the Graduate Institute of Law containing the Division of Law and the Division of Economic Theory. In the following year, the Graduate Institute of Law was further separated into the Graduate Institute of Law, the Graduate Institute of Political Science, and the Graduate Institute of Economics. In 1963, the Accounting and Banking Division was subsequently split into an Accounting Division and a Banking Division, thus re-organizing the Commerce Department into four divisions. In 1967, the Department of Law set up an Evening Division. Since then, the College of Law has established the Graduate Institute of Sociology and the Graduate Institute of Commerce in 1972, the Graduate Institute of San-Min- Chu -I in 1974, and the Graduate Institute of Journalism in 1991. In 1985, the Commerce Department's four divisions were upgraded to department-level: the Business Administration Department, Finance Department, Accounting Department and International Trade Department. In 1987, the four departments officially formed the College of Management . In 2000, the Graduate Institute of San-Ming-Chu-I changed its name to the Graduate Institute of National Development. The Department and Graduate Institute of Social Work was separated from the Department and Graduate Institute of Sociology in 2002.

In order to adjust to our country's political and social development and follow the international trend, the National Taiwan University decided in 1995 to upgrade the Department and Graduate Institute of Law into a college, namely the new College of Law . The other departments and graduate institutes of the former College of Law formed another college, namely the College of Social Sciences . This change was achieved in August 1999.