These schools all wish to limit the number of students in order to guarantee the quality of their education. Fokuang University hopes to keep the number of its students under 6,000, while Fa Ku College is aiming for under 3,000. This ideal to have an elite university which emphasizes "quality over quantity" was also the intention when Soochow University was first established.
這些佛教院校均希望以控制學生數來維持教育品質，佛光希望未來的學生數不超過六千人，法鼓學院則希望控制在三千人以內，這份「質重於量」的精緻大學理想，與當初東海大學開辦時的用心，如出一轍。