From 2002 to 2004, the MOE spent NT $ 4.7 billion promoting its Research-Oriented University Integration Project. The project provided additional financial support to seven universities that were deemed to be internationally competitive--NTU, Tsing Hua, Chiao Tung, NCU, Yang Ming, Sun Yat-sen, and Cheng Kung--to encourage the kind of intramural and intermural integration that would expand and strengthen Taiwan's research-oriented universities.
2002 至 2004 年，教育部又耗資 47 億元，推動「研究型大學整合計畫」，共遴選出 7 所具備國際競爭力的大學──台大、清華、交大、中央、陽明、中山、成大，給予特別的經費支援，以推動校內整合和校際整合，期能擴大研究型大學的規模和實力。