Indonesian Students Ranked Third Largest Foreign Students

Indonesians are now the third largest group of foreigners studying  in Taiwan after Vietnamese and Malaysians, a Taiwanese official said.

"Most of the Indonesian students are majoring in engineering, technology and business management at some of Taiwan's finest universities," said the director of Elite Study In Taiwan (ESIT) program, Tsang-yao Chen, here  Tuesday.
      
According to Chen, the top five countries in number of people studying in Taiwan were Vietnam with 1,537 students, Malaysia 1,241 students, Indonesia 615 students, South Korea 445 students, and France 423 students. Indonesian students studying in Taiwan in 2009 numbered  2,275  consisting of 1,392 degree-seeking students, six exchange students and 877 Chinese language students, also some 55 university-level education cooperation agreements were signed from 2000 to 2009 between Taiwan and Indonesia, which indicates the extent of the two countries'  collaboration in the educational field.

Most of the students at Taiwanese universities were studying with  government-provided scholarships for which they had applied via the web site ESIT had provided, he said.

"The process to apply for a scholarship to study in Taiwan is very easy. Just visit our website www.esit.org.tw and follow the given  instructions," Chen said.
      
Chen also said  universities in Taiwan provide high quality education at  costs lower than in other countries.
     
"To obtain a master's degree at a public university in Taiwan, one only needs six thousand US dollars per year and at a private university  about eight thousand US dollars, not  including the cost of living," Chen said.
     
The goal of Taiwan's international education scholarship program was to get more exchange of people for better cultural understanding between countries in order to build a solid ground in relationship, especially with Indonesia.
     
Taiwan's higher education and training were ranked fifth and fourth in the world by WEF (World Economy Forum) in 2006 and 2007, in the Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009 by WEF, Taiwan is  13th among  134 countries ranked.
     
In 2009, the number of research publications in Taiwan ranked 17th in SCI (Science Citation), 15th in SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) and 10th in EI (Elsevier Engineering Index).

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