Yeh holds a bachelor's degree in Chinese and a master's degree in journalism, both from National Cheng Chi University, and while writing her thesis on the "white terror" period, she jokes that she somehow managed to get first place in the civil service examination.
大學念的是政大中文系，碩士讀的是政大新聞所，她寫「白色恐怖」論文的同時，「一不小心」又考上高考榜首。