In response to these claims, on July 10 the e-paper of President Chen Shui-bian stated that Taiwan has always had a low-tuition policy, with the best schools often being the least expensive. To help narrow the gap between tuition at heavily subsidized public universities as opposed to tuition-dependent private ones, the government subsidizes up to 20 % of routine expenses at private universities, which is very rarely done anywhere else in the world.
針對此說，總統府在七月十日的「阿扁電子報」中指出，台灣一向採低學費政策，最好的大學往往是最便宜的大學，為了縮小公私立大學學雜費的差距，政府每年獎、補助私立大學的經常費用，最高可達百分之二十，這在世界各國是非常少有的例子。