International Student Recruitment

Program Duration : Master's 1 - 4 years; Ph.D. 2 - 7 years

Applicant's Eligibility (international students)

Applicants’ qualification is based on the Ministry of Education’s (hereinafter referred to as the “MOE”) Regulations Regarding International Students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan. If the MOE’s Regulations are updated, the most recent Regulations announced by the MOE will take priority. For updated information relating to the MOE’s Regulations, please contact the MOE directly.

(I.) Applicants must qualify for legal student status in compliance with Article 2 of the MOE’s Regulations Regarding International Students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan. International students are defined as follows:

1. Individuals of foreign citizenship, who have never held Republic of China (“R.O.C.”) nationality (Note 1) and who meet the following requirements are permitted to apply for admission:

(1) The person has never undertaken studies in Taiwan as an overseas compatriot student.

(2) The person has not been given a placement in the current academic year by the University Entrance Committee for Overseas Compatriot Students in accordance with the Regulations Regarding Study and Counseling Assistance for Overseas Compatriot Students in Taiwan.

2. Individuals of foreign citizenship, pursuant to the following regulations and who has resided overseas (Note 2) continuously for at least six years (Note 3), are also qualified to apply for admission under this regulation.

(1) A person who at the time of their application also holds dual R.O.C. nationality shall have never had household registration in Taiwan. (Applicants are required to declare in the online application system)

(2) A person who before the time of their application also held dual R.O.C. nationality but no longer does at the time of their application shall have renounced their R.O.C. nationality with the approval of the Ministry of the Interior on a date at least eight full years before making their application.

(3) Regarding individuals mentioned in both of the above articles, they must not have studied in Taiwan as overseas compatriot students nor received placement permission during the same year of the application by the University Entrance Committee for Overseas Compatriot Students in accordance with the Regulations Regarding Study and Counseling Assistance for Overseas Compatriot Students in Taiwan.

3. According to the Education Cooperation Framework Agreement, a foreign citizen who was selected by a foreign government, organization, or school and has not held an R.O.C. household registration from the time of his/her birth is eligible to apply with approval from the Ministry of Education.

4. An applicant of foreign citizenship, concurrently holding a permanent residence status in Hong Kong or Macao, having no history of a household registration record in Taiwan and who, at the time of application, has resided in Hong Kong, Macao, or elsewhere overseas continuously for at least six years.

5. An applicant who is a former citizen of Mainland China and holds a foreign citizenship, with no history of household registration record in Taiwan, and who, at the time of application, has resided overseas continuously for at least six years.

6. International students can apply to study in Taiwan only once. If international students want to continue studying in Taiwan, their application shall be handled in the same manner as the admission procedures for domestic students. International students in any of the following circumstances, who after applying to study in Taiwan, are applying to continue studying in Taiwan, or are once again applying to study in Taiwan, are not subject to the restriction set out in the preceding paragraph:

(1) If an international student is applying for admission to a master’s degree or higher level program after completing the course of study at the educational institution to which they originally applied, the application shall be processed according to NSYSU’s regulations;

(2) If an international student applied to come to Taiwan to undertake a bachelor’s degree or lower level program in Taiwan and after coming to Taiwan stayed for less than one year for some reason then discontinued their studies or forfeited their student status, that student may lodge another application to come to Taiwan to study, but only one such re-application is permitted.

(3) If the international student meets the requirements set out in the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 1 of Regulations Regarding International Students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan, and they are applying for admission to a bachelor’s degree program other than one in a university department of medicine, dentistry, or Chinese medicine; only one such further application is permitted.

(II.) Applicants must have never been dismissed by other universities in Taiwan.

(III.) During the course of study in Taiwan, international students who have undertaken initial household registration, resident registration, naturalization or restoration of their R.O.C. nationality procedures will forfeit their international student status and shall be dismissed by the school. However, this does not apply to a person in any of the following circumstances:

1. The student's admission to the school was handled in the same manner as for the admission of domestic students.

2. The student applies for naturalization to acquire R.O.C. nationality in accordance with the provisions of Subparagraph 1 to Subparagraph 3, Paragraph 1, Article 4 of the Nationality Act.

3. The student meets the criteria set out in the provisions of Article 2, Paragraph 1 of Regulations Regarding International Students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan and applies for naturalization to acquire R.O.C. nationality in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 to Article 7 of the Nationality Act.

Violation of any regulation of the MOE’s Regulations Regarding International Students Undertaking Studies in Taiwan will result in immediate cancellation of the applicant’s admission or the deprivation of the applicant’s recognized status as an NSYSU registered student or revocation of the applicant’s NSYSU official degree certificate. No certificates will be awarded.

Notes:

1. According to Article 2 of the Citizenship Law of R.O.C., a person shall be the citizen of the Republic of China under any of the conditions provided by the following subparagraphs:

(1) His/Her father or mother was a citizen of the Republic of China when he/she was born.

(2) He/She was born after the death of his/her father or mother, and his/her father or mother was a citizen of the Republic of China at the time of death.

(3) He/She was born in the territory of the Republic of China, and his/her parents cannot be ascertained, or both were stateless people.

(4) He/She has undergone the naturalization process. The preceding subparagraph 1 and subparagraph 2 shall also apply to the persons who were minors at the time of the amendment and promulgation of this Act.

2. The term “overseas” refers to countries or regions other than Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau; the term “reside overseas continuously” means that an individual may stay in Taiwan for no more than a total of 120 days per calendar year.

3.The calculation of the 6- and 8-year period can only be counted up to the starting date of the semester, August 1st (Fall semester) and February 1st (Spring semester).