Talk:National Taiwan University

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I don't know how to susinctly describing the ranking of NTU as number one without describing the entire college admissions system in Taiwan.

The college admission system is based on the National Entrance Examination, and each college can establish the score necessary on the NEE for admission. Theoretically, any college can set their admission score to anything, but if it sets it too high, it won't get any students, and if it sets it to low, its seen as less prestigous.

This creates a de facto ranking because high prestige colleges can demand a higher score, and this also creates an odd circular situation in which a high ranked school can establish a high score for entrance, which establishes it as prestigious, which increases the number of students who want to enter the school, which allows the school to set a higher bar to entrance.

The net result of this is that unlike schools in the United States where rankings have a lot of subjective opinion associated with them, in Taiwan, there is an objective measure which is commonly used to describe the ranking of a school.

Nationa Taiwan University (NTU) is definitely the best in Taiwan, if you really realize, inspect, look into, compare the difference among resources, policies, course richness, student rights, welfares and continous improvments.

>> It is important to make a comment based on fact/figures. Why is NTU the BEST school in Taiwan? No doubt, NTU attracts the best students from all over Taiwan, but the teaching and research are among those factors when you consider if a school is better than others. The leading subjects such as Science (Life Science), Electrical Enigeering, and Computer Science are almost having the same level as NCTU and NTHU.

The score needed to get into NTU is deteremined by students, not by any single university. If there are more and more students want to get into the same university, the score needed for entrance becomes higher and higher. This is a little like theorems of economics.

The main problem in Taiwan's education system is actually lies mainly on the parents. Parents always want their child to be the best and put the greatest pressure o them. When their child can't get into the best universities (or high schools), they argue on the whole education system. This leads to a lot of problems like: Students are always forced get into cram schools for a lot of subjects; students choose a school or department because it is generally considered "the best" but not based on their interest or abillity; the whole education system in Taiwan is changing but without a general goal because there are always too many opnions. Truly, there are a lot of problems lies in education systems in Taiwan, but most importantly, is how to educate the parents with the correct altitude of education.

Write this up?: Universities hurry to join alliances in attempt to stay competitive

Done: University alliances in Taiwan. --Kaihsu 18:27, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Oldest university

Can somebody say if NTU is the oldest university on Taiwan?. Is the prominence of this center of higher learning contested by any other universities on ROC?.HappyApple 16:36, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes,it's the oldest. Built by Japanese.--HydrogenSu 18:22, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I doubt the NTU is the oldest school in taiwan. the begin of the National Chung-Hsing University can be traced back to 1919 than NTU's 1928. 61.229.223.50 02:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

NTU is the oldest in Taiwan.--Jerry 14:58, 7 October 2007 (UTC)