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Taiwan’s Important Education Indicators 71
United Kingdom 92 90 94
France 99 98 100
Australia 87 87 88
Note: Net enrollment rate for secondary education = number of school-age children / number of children required to
attend x 100
Source: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Education, 2008a, p.8.
Higher Education
Higher education in Taiwan is offered by junior
colleges, senior colleges, academies, institutes,
four-year universities, and graduate schools. There were
only seven institutions of higher education in Taiwan in
1950. They included one university (where three graduate
programs were offered), three senior colleges, and
three junior colleges. The combined enrollment stood at
6,665. The number of schools increased to 164 (excluding
military and police academies as well as open
universities) in 2007. They included 100 universities,
49 senior colleges, and 15 junior colleges. The student
population totaled 1,326,029. Universities and senior
colleges ran 3,118 graduates schools, where
204,225.students were enrolled. The graduate schools
award master’s and Ph. D. degrees.
South Korea leads in gross enrollment for higher
education. Taiwan and the United States follow and are
followed by Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and
France. China lags far behind. (See Table 13.)
Table 13.
Gross Enrollment Rates for Higher Education
Unit:%
Countries
2006
Total Male Female
Taiwan 83.58 81.37 85.94
China 22 22 21
Japan 57 61 54
South Korea 91 110 70
United States of America 82 68 96
United Kingdom 59 50 69
France 56 50 63
Australia 73 64 82
Note: Gross enrollment rate = number of students / school-age population x 100
Source: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Education, 2008a, p.5.
College freshman topped 206,000 in Taiwan,
714,000 in Japan, 612,000 in South Korea, 494,000 in
the United Kingdom, 382,000 in France, and 238,000 in
Germany in 2005. The enrollment rate was highest at
100.5 percent in South Korea. Australia followed at 82
percent, and was followed by Taiwan at 65.9 percent,
the United Kingdom at 62.6 percent, Japan at 52.3 percent
and France at 41 percent. Germany lagged behind
at 24.8 percent. (See Table 14.)