Predictably, in recent years, older and newly established universities, as well as vocational and technical colleges (which tend to lack qualified faculty and whose student body is a mixed bag), have all been establishing graduate schools in an effort to become research universities.
果不其然，放眼國內，近年無論傳統大學、新設大學，甚至師資並不充裕、學生水準也參差不齊的技職體系和科技大學，都紛紛增設研究所，朝研究型大學的目標搶進。