UNDER CONSIDERATION: Students are drawn to institutions in urban areas and prefer the north of Taiwan, which is the biggest challenge facing educational facilities
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 29, 2017
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff writer, with CNA
A total of 198 university and college departments failed to recruit any students in the 2017
Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism University in Hualien County’s Shoufong Township is pictured yesterday. Photo: CNA
to 2018 academic year, up from 151 last year, a report published by the Ministry of Education said yesterday.
The report found that 198 majors of the 8,849 offered in vocational, bachelors, masters and doctorate programs did not attract any students for the academic year.
The trend is not limited to average or lower-ranking universities.
A few doctorate programs at some of the nation’s top schools, including National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University, National Cheng Kung University and National Chengchi University, were unable to attract students, despite many of these elite schools having undergraduate enrollment rates of 90 percent or more, the report said. [FULL STORY]
