Jinwen University of Science and Technology(JUST) was originally named as “Jin-wen Industrial and Commercial College”, and established in Xindian District of New Taipei City by Mr. Wan-Li Chang in 1990. The initial enrollment set of electronic engineering department, international trade department, business management department, accounting statistics department, banking and insurance department and electronic data processing department, a total of 17 classes in six departments.

According to the national developing trend, accelerate the upgrading of the quality of the Technical and Vocational Training of manpower to meet the manpower developing needs of the domestic industry. It was subsequently upgraded into “Jin-Wen Institute of Technology” and approved by the Ministry of Education in 1998, base on the original scale expansion to 16 departments, the number of students has increased by more than 10,000.

JUST has re-approved by the Ministry of Education changed its name to "Jinwen University of Science and Technology" on February 1, 2007. JUST developing to new heights, became one of the important university of technology in the areas of New Taipei City. Currently (2023), there are 11 departments and 2 graduate programs within 3 colleges of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Information Technology and Management, Humanities and Design,  and more than 5,000 students at JUST.

Our campus has modern and well-maintained facilities and has been accredited as a safe school by the International Safe Schools (ISS) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2010 and 2014. Our university possesses strong faculty members with wonderful teaching quality. We also received subsidies from the Teaching Excellence Project funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) from 2009 to 2014. In order to make our students more competitive in career fields, JUST puts special emphasis on bilateral business-university cooperation and actively promotes student internships, both off-campus and overseas. Our school is a qualified university with the characteristics to nurture professionals in the fields of hospitality and tourism, business management and services, applied foreign languages, electrical engineering and information technology, environmental science and property management, and creative design.

In August of 2002, fifteen experts and professionals in various fields were selected and appointed by the Ministry of Education and formed a non-profit Board of Trustees chaired by the attorney-at-law Ms. Ching-Feng Wang. Furthermore, Dr. Wen-Shion Chang was selected and appointed to be the chairman of the Board of Trustees from August, 2005 until now. In August of 2006, Dr. Yung-Fu Cheng was invited by the Board of Trustees to be the incumbent president till July 2015. In August of 2015, Dr. Jeou-Shyan Horng was invited by the Board of Trustees to be the present president, and continues to lead innovation and transformation and sustainable development.    In April of 2016, the chairman of the Board of Trustees Dr. Wen-Shion Chang died, and the chairman was replaced by Dr. Shan-Da Liu until the end of his term.    In May of 2016, to form the 10th Board of Trustees, still by Dr. Shan-Da Liu resumed to be the chairman of the Board of Trustees, In August of 2018, Dr. Jeou-Shyan Horng being diligent in running a school and served as president through renewal.  In August of 2021, the board of directors selected Dr. Ti Yu as the principal, hoping to lead the JUST to create a new title page in the face of the predicament of the reduction of children!  The 12th board of directors was formed in July of 2024, and Dr. Liu Xianda was re-elected as chairman. In August of 2024, the president Yu retired at the expiration of her term, and the board of directors selected Dr. Huang Rongpeng as president.