Su Chi, a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia and a professor of foreign affairs at National Chengchi University, recalls that when he enrolled as a graduate student in political science in 1976, the department head made things clear right off the bat: "It takes 8.4 years on average to get a degree."
哥大政治學博士、現任政治大學外交系教授蘇起，回憶一九七六年初入哥大攻讀政治時，系老闆開宗明義：「平均要念八．四年。」