Sorry, but it is not National Tsing Hua University

From The Economist:

IF YOU are a PhD student in America, there's a good chance that your undergraduate degree came from Tsinghua University in China. That's because
Tsinghua and Peking Universities are now the top feeder schools for American PhD
programmes. Chinese students have the largest presence in the natural sciences and engineering, and the better funded hard sciences have the most students. Thus, when you aggregate the number of PhD students, the Chinese universities prevail.

不好意思，他不是在說我們的清華大學。但是，跟早期比，我們的清華大學似乎是很少人出國念博士了。其實這跟美國的現象很類似:

American students who do have the skills necessary for a quantitative PhD might also be less likely to pursue graduate work, because these skills are in high demand. A clever graduate with strong quantitative skills can fetch a high salary right out of university. The alternative of seven years of indentured servitude to your adviser probably sounds less appealing to many recent graduates.

若你是清大電機畢業，出去找工作很容易，導致出國念博士的意願降低許多。所以，當張忠謀在擔心我們缺乏國際觀，他必須想一想，是什麼東西造成這個現象的? 若你真想要提生咱們的國際觀，就降低給土生土長的工程師薪水吧。不願意喔?

倒是，台灣可以拉一些大陸學生來台求學位。這樣的話，我們搞不好真需要100多所大學。我一直認為台灣可以export教育。看看馬政府有沒有能力推銷台灣的教育給對岸。