And so, suffering from weak academics and poor management, FEU found its prestige plummeting a decade ago. In competitiveness rankings, it languished near the bottom of four-year institutes of technology and two-year junior colleges.
正因為如此，十餘年前，辦學乏善可陳又管理鬆散的遠東科大，聲望跌落谷底，在四技二專的統測排名也總是在倒數幾名的後段班徘徊。