There are even some cases of students with very high exam scores who put the College of Design at the top of their preference lists. Kuan Cheng-neng says it has long been common overseas for design to be a respected field. In the UK there is the Royal College of Art, while at highly rated Stanford University in the US, design serves as a platform to integrate the humanities, technology and commerce.
官政能表示，設計師地位崇隆，在國外早已司空見慣，英國有皇家藝術學院，美國一流的研究型大學史丹佛大學也以設計做為整合人文、科技與商業的平台。