After the lifting of martial law in that year, however, citizens groups began calling for the liberalization of university policy. In response, the "education superhighway" policy was put in place, upgrading numerous technical colleges into institutes, and institutes into full universities, with the consequent opening of graduate programs at these newly upgraded schools.
解嚴後，民間團體紛紛要求開放大學，「教育高速公路」政策也積極將專校升格為學院、學院升格為大學，連帶研究所也隨之開放。