Agricultural colleges have been worst affected by the changing priorities of industry and society, and have become so "un-hip" that they weren't even included in the China Times 2001 survey of Taiwan universities.
受產業與社會價值觀衝擊最大的首推農學院，中國時報的「二○○一年全國大學總覽」甚至認為第四類組的農學院太不「熱門」，乾脆略過，不予調查。