Of the 530,000 undergraduate and graduate students at Taiwan's universities and colleges, 230,000 are majoring in computer science, chemical engineering or other engineering subjects. Only 36,000 students are studying the humanities--literature, philosophy, history and so forth.
目前全國四十二萬名大學及研究所學生中，資訊、化工等工程科系學生有近八萬人、商業企管也有八萬多人，而文史哲等人文科系總計只有四萬一千人，完全不成比例。