According to Chen Shin-horng, head of the Chung Hua Institution for Economic Research's (CIER) International Division, mainland China ranked first in the number of foreign scholars in the US, accounting for more than 15,000 of the total of 84,000 who were there in 2003. Taiwan ranked 14th with only 1,241 scholars in the US.
中華經濟研究院國際經濟所所長陳信宏的報告則指出，2003 年，全美總數 8 萬 4 千多名國際學者中，中國以 1 萬 5 千多人居首，台灣則以 1241 人屈居第 14 位。