According to statistics from the Ministry of Education's Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations, a total of 5,154 foreign students came to Taiwan in 1993. Of these, three-fifths were from Asia; over 1,200 were from the Americas, and 581 were from Europe.
根據教育部國際文教處的統計，一九九三來台的外籍學生共有五千一百五十四人，其中亞洲學生占了五分之三、美洲有一千兩百多人、歐洲為五百八十一人。