Tsinghua is on the edge of Hsinchu, just two minutes from the freeway and an hour from Taipei, with inter-city buses at the campus gate. For many people at Tsinghua, when they went out of that gate it was more likely that they were on their way to Taipei rather than going in to Hsinchu. "
清華在新竹市的邊緣，校門口有公路局的車子，兩分鐘就上高速公路，一個小時就到台北；清華人上台北的機率比到新竹市中心還大」，清華大學中文系教授呂正惠曾為文指出。