Despite the changing study environment, OCAC statistics show that except for a sharp drop in 1998 due to the Asian financial crisis, Malaysian students 'enrollment in Taiwanese universities and the National University Preparatory School for Overseas Chinese Students combined has remained at around 1000 throughout the past decade.
雖然留台環境轉變，然而翻開僑委會近十幾年大馬留台人數統計發現，除了 1998 年因為東南亞金融風暴人數大跌外，來台人數（含大專院校及海青班）都維持在一千人上下。