Taiwan has always worked very closely with the United States in the field of education. To further strengthen the collaboration on international education, particularly in the area of language education, Taiwan and the U.S. signed the MOU on international education collaboration and launched the “U.S.-Taiwan Education Initiative” on December 3, 2020, and it has been renewed on May 27, 2026 in Orlando, U.S.
Since 2005, Taiwan has signed 30 MOUs, relating to educational cooperation with total 27 states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, Rhode, New Jersey, and Montana while inter-university links between the U.S. and Taiwan constitute 2,101 agreements.
Under the U.S.-Taiwan Education Initiative, Taiwan Huayu BEST Program linked 19 Taiwan and 62 U.S. university including 7 with Taiwan Centers for Mandarin Teaching. In addition, Taiwan’s Test for Chinese as a Foreign Language (TOCFL) is recognized by education departments in 28 states.
Currently, Taiwan has been the 7th largest source of international students in the U.S. In the 2025-2026 school year, a total of 23,157 students from Taiwan studied in colleges and universities in the United States while 4,282 American students were enrolled in Taiwan universities, including 541 degree students and 3,741 non-degree students.
Taiwan has provided the Huayu (Mandarin) Enrichment Scholarship (HES), Taiwan Scholarship, Taiwan Studies Initiatives, Visiting Scholar Program and Taiwan Fellowship Program to encourage U.S.-Taiwan students/scholars exchanges as well as study in Taiwan. By offering these education linkages and extending partnership ties between the United States and Taiwan, Taiwan will continue to support and encourage international academic cooperation for the mutual benefit and the development of human resources and inter-institutional collaboration.
