International Student Recruitment

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

Applicant's Eligibility

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

(I.) Applicants must qualify for legal student status in compliance with Article 2 of the Ministry of Education’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 nationality and who meet the following requirements are permitted to apply for admission to an educational institution:

a. The person has never undertaken studies in Taiwan as an overseas Chinese student.

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

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

a. A person who at the time of their application also holds dual R.O.C. nationality shall have never had household registration in Taiwan.  

b. 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.  

c. Regarding individuals mentioned in both of the above articles, they must not have studied in Taiwan as overseas Chinese students nor received placement permission during the same year of the application by the University Entrance Committee for Overseas Chinese Students.  

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 not subject to the limitations as prescribed in Paragraph 2 and 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 no less than 6 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. However, this requirement does not apply to an international student in either of the following circumstances:

a. 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 university to which the student is now applying shall handle the application in accordance with its regulations;

b. 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 reapplication 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.  

Violation of any regulation of the MOE 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:

I. 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:  

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

(ii) 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.

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

(iv) 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.

II. The term “overseas” prescribed in Paragraph 2 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.  

III.The calculation of the 6- and 8-year period prescribed in Paragraph 2 can only be counted up to the starting date of the semester, August 1st (Fall semester) and February 1st (Spring semester).