Also, colleges on the mainland didn't start enrolling overseas students until the mid-1980s, while it was difficult to gain admission to university in Hong Kong. Under these circumstances, Taiwanese universities, which actively recruited abroad, were a natural choice for many Macau students.
而在一九八○年代中期以前，大陸大專院校並未開放對外招收學生，香港大學少又難進，積極向海外招生的台灣各大學自然成為許多澳門同學的選擇。