Chia Chee Pin, who earned a two-year associate's degree in mass communication in his native Malaysia, worked for a year, and then felt that a higher degree would be a good insurance policy in poor economic times, so he applied to enter a joint degree program from I-Shou University in Kaohsiung and New Era College in Malaysia. After he gets his bachelor's, he plans on working toward a master's.
來自馬來西亞的謝志彬在馬國取得大眾傳播副學士（相當於二專畢業），工作一年後，覺得在不景氣年代學歷就代表保障，便申請修習高雄縣私立義守大學和大馬新紀元學院的「雙連學位」，大學畢業後還打算再攻碩士。