For these students, the average private university tuition of about NT $ 50,000 per semester represents a serious burden The MOE has long offered help to university students whose families earned less than NT $ 400,000 per year, providing NT $ 7,000 per semester to those enrolled at public universities and NT $ 14,000 per semester to those at private schools.
以往教育部對於家庭年收入低於 40 萬元的大學生，只約略區分，就讀公立大學者每人每學期補助 7,000 元，私立大學補助 1 萬 4,000 元。