Band 6+: The diagrams below shove the results of a survey from Taivean explaining how students, wanting to shaly overseas, chose a university from 1998-2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The tables illustrate proportion of Taiwanese students’ criteria in choosing overseas studying, reported from a university over a 10-year period, from 1998 to 2008.

Overall, the most favored reason in both genders is the prestige of the university, followed by the fee of accommodation in 1998. However, the modern lecturing methods accounts for the lowest portion in male students, while the quality of professors was the smallest contributors in female.

One noticeable point is that the school’s reputation attracts students most, with 97% and 100% respectively in male and female in 1998. Ten years later, tuition fee took up the highest percentage, arriving at 95% in female and more 2% than that in male. Moreover, the cost of living places still remained being the third highest ranked criteria throughout ten years, dropping approximately 5%.

As can be seen, location, quality of teachers, and novel teaching methods were less favored by students. The gap between two genders’ preference in good language support widened significantly, from 34% to 40%. Male students were likely to not prefer well-equipped facilities in 2008, reaching at only two fifths, contrary to that in female ones at seven tenths.