National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) reported that international students accounted for 13.39 percent of its student body last year, making the college Taiwan’s most international public university for the second consecutive year.
NTNU has increased the share of international students in the student body faster than any other public university in Taiwan between 2010 and last year, the school said in a statement yesterday.
This year, applications for enrollment by foreigners exceeded 1,000 for the first time in the school’s history, representing a 40 percent increase compared with before NTNU’s push to recruit international students, it said.
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NTNU president Sung Yao-ting (宋曜廷) and his predecessor Wu Cheng-chi’s (吳正己) policies that emphasized global student recruitment and coordination among departments are the chief cause for the school’s sustained success, it said.
The university’s use of the Higher Education SPROUT Project’s provision for internationalizing higher education is a driver of its growth in its international student body, it said.
NTNU has used the Ministry of Education’s programs to provide enhanced Chinese language training to international students to draw them to careers in Taiwan, it said.
The university’s recruitment strategy emphasized building a reputation via international education exhibitions, collaboration with global institutions and foreign schools, digital platforms and word of mouth, NTNU said.
This allowed the school to carve out a stable recruitment pool for foreign prospective students, it said.
NTNU has 1,942 international students from 73 countries and territories across the world, with Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau supplying the largest groups, it said. No single source has a clear majority, allowing the school to create a diverse community with no overreliance on one source, it said.
A mature bilingual educational environment is key to the university’s success in continually growing its international student population, offering six bachelor’s degree-level and 62 doctoral and master-level classes in the English language, it said.
NTNU students are organized in international youth service teams to assist their foreign-born classmates to integrate educationally and professionally, allowing the school to attract and retain global students, it said.
Well-organized support and guidance for foreign students, bilingual education programs and global cooperative frameworks are essential for Taiwan’s higher education to thrive, the school said.
The continued success of Taiwanese universities in recruiting gifted people from a diverse range of cultures and traditions is foundational to the global visibility and influence of the nation’s higher education as a whole, NTNU said.
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