Talk:National Taiwan University
From Academic Kids
I don't know how to susinctly describing the ranking of NTU as number one without describing the entire college admissions system in Taiwan.
The college admission system is based on the National Entrance Examination, and each college can establish the score necessary on the NEE for admission. Theoretically, any college can set their admission score to anything, but if it sets it too high, it won't get any students, and if it sets it to low, its seen as less prestigous.
This creates a de facto ranking because high prestige colleges can demand a higher score, and this also creates an odd circular situation in which a high ranked school can establish a high score for entrance, which establishes it as prestigious, which increases the number of students who want to enter the school, which allows the school to set a higher bar to entrance.
The net result of this is that unlike schools in the United States where rankings have a lot of subjective opinion associated with them, in Taiwan, there is an objective measure which is commonly used to describe the ranking of a school.
Write this up?: Universities hurry to join alliances in attempt to stay competitive (http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/20020325/20020325s4.html)
- Done: University alliances in Taiwan. --Kaihsu 18:27, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
