Taiwanese universities : NCKU vs. NCTU

Now that I know that I’ve been accepted to NCKU and NCTU in Taiwan, and that there’s the Taiwan scholarship to back that up, there’s the simple yet difficult issue of where I should go. There are so many small details and so much uncertainty that I’m sometimes not sure what the right direction is. I’ll be spending the next year in Taiwan studying for an International Business PhD degree, other than that – I have no clue.

Aside from my long discussed concerns about Taiwanese academics, here are some of the considerations for choosing either NCTU or NCKU :

• Location: NCKU is in Tainan. NCTU’s main campus is in Xinzhu but the College of Management is in Taipei. How that NCTU Xinzhu-Taipei thing works – I have no idea. BTW – I’ve been getting a lot of confusing information about the weather differences between Taipei and Tainan, but I honestly don’t care about that very much.
• What people say: Let just say that I don’t have many people to consult, and it’s not for lack of trying. Two have been kind enough to share their opinions – Michael Turton, and the other says good things about the NCTU program in the Forumosa forums. It’s odd that I found no other English blogging opinions on neither ones of those universities, aside from Scott Sammers’ which isn’t from personal experience.
• Scholarships: International students don’t have to pay tuition fees in both. NCKU offers a 10,000NT scholarship support, NCTU offers 20,000NT. NCKU offers shared-room dorms for free (usually ~6000NT$ per semester), I’m still trying to figure out NCTU. It seems that those scholarship change for those awarded the Taiwan scholarship, though the details are confusing. There’s a very interesting scholarship offered by NCTU called "Scholarship for Students to Study in Taiwan, Mainland China, and Hong Kong" that mentions combining studies in all the JiaoTung universities and two others in HK. Honestly, this sounds excellent, but I have no idea how practical this scholarship really is.
• Program : I have no clue. There’s little information on the NCKU page, and even less on NCTU. While the NCKU at least has general technical information, NCTU offers very little. In general, there’s room for improvement in the way English portals for the top Taiwanese universities look like and how frequently those are updated (NCKU, NCTU). If you take a look at the Hebrew University main website, you’d see that while most students study in Hebrew, the English website is sometimes even richer than the one in Hebrew, especially when it comes to university introduction. At least, there’s clear indication of the study programs with a listing of the professors and their publications. Which brings me to the next point.
• Professors: It’s extremely difficult to know exactly who the university faculty members are and what they’re researching. There are almost no publication lists, it’s unclear what they’re interested in and the kind of PhD students they’re looking for, e-mail addresses and personal homepages are not always updated. With the little I was able to find there seems to be one professor in International Marketing in NCTU that’s on track for what I’m interested in. Even looking up names on Google & Google Scholar doesn’t help with most. I might be missing something, it might be a Pinyin name problem…
• Rankings: As far as I know – NCKU has a slightly better reputation in Taiwan than NCTU. It also shows in the international Taiwanese university rankings.
• Students: There’s no information on the other students in NCTU, but the NCKU’s list is interesting. The PhD students in NCKU that are not Taiwanese  mostly come from – US, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Bangladesh.

There are a million other small details that I already forgot. Think of any other important things to ask about that I overlooked?

Given the choice, which of those universities will you go to?