Abstract

Due to the innovation of Taiwan’s education strategy, options for the channel of advancing to higher education for students are unobstructed. The number of universities and colleges in Taiwan has grown from 137 to 162, as of today. The rapid development of higher education has raised many issues, such as the over supply of higher education market. Because decline in birth-rate, number of upcoming students has declined sharply, thereby impacting school enrollment. The purpose of this study aims to discuss the situation of recruitment of private technical colleges in Taiwan, and find out the schools that have the higher recruitment competency by examining and analyzing the secondary data. Main data source is based on the number of students in each private technical colleges from 2002 to 2008. Results of this study show: (1) Number of students in private technical colleges are most in 5,001 to 10,000 students. The scale of schools is very different. (2) Compare the number of students in 2002 and 2007 about 65% of schools downsize. (3) There are four schools whose student numbers are increasing in the past seven years and fourteen schools which are decreasing in student numbers.

Key words: Private technical colleges, number of students, situation of recruitment.