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 …

What are the best research institutes in Asia and how do those compare to other universities around the world? Is Asian academic research different than that of the "west"? Where is Asian research going?
Being interested in Asian academics this past year, I’ve noticed major differences in the way research is perceived in Asia as opposed to the west. Looking at publishing lists for Chinese and Taiwanese professors it was quite remarkable to see that most of them publish more papers in Chinese then they do in English. My Israeli university training has brought me up to believe that a decent paper should always be published in American and European leading research journals in English, and no one in Israel really …