Since 1996 an endowment fund sys-tem has been in place in Taiwan to help provide funding for national universities. This means that while they are still mostly subsidized by the Ministry of Education (MOE), these universities must come up with 20 % of their own funding.
國立大學經費自民國八十五年開始以校務基金的方式運作，除了教育部的補助外，大學必須自籌百分之二十的經費。