"A top-20 school in the States would have a large number of top researchers and scholars to train doctoral candidates, but the second-rank schools, say the top 40, might only have a few professors who are especially outstanding in some particular fields. This is to say, if there is not a large enough group of world-class professors, then the training that doctoral students receive will be correspondingly limited," says Chen.
「若能排進美國大學前二十名，表示我們擁有各個研究領域的師資，但排進前四十名可能只有就一、二項研究夠強，也就是說，具世界水準的教授群並不足，培養出來的博士生當然也是如此，」他說。連台大都有師資不足的困境，何況其他學校。