A retrospective study of the admission ways in the School of Dentistry of National Taiwan University from 2000 to 2021

Feng-Chou Cheng; Ming-Chung Lee; Ling-Hsia Wang; Wen-Juain Lin; Tsui-Hua Liu; Shiang-Yao Liu; Chun-Pin Chiang

doi:10.1016/j.jds.2022.06.010

A retrospective study of the admission ways in the School of Dentistry of National Taiwan University from 2000 to 2021

J Dent Sci. 2022 Oct;17(4):1577-1585. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2022.06.010. Epub 2022 Jun 30.

Authors

Feng-Chou Cheng^{1

2}, Ming-Chung Lee¹, Ling-Hsia Wang³, Wen-Juain Lin⁴, Tsui-Hua Liu^{1

5}, Shiang-Yao Liu^{1

6}, Chun-Pin Chiang^{7

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Science Education Center, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Center for the Literature and Art, Hsin Sheng Junior College of Medical Care and Management, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
⁴ Taipei First Girls High School, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁶ Graduate Institute of Science Education, College of Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁷ Department of Dentistry, National Taiwan University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁸ Graduate Institute of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁹ Department of Dentistry, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan.

Abstract

Background/purpose: In Taiwan, dental schools have gradually become a popular choice for high school graduates to enter in the universities. This study mainly analyzed the various admission ways to enroll students into the School of Dentistry of National Taiwan University (SODNTU) from 2000 to 2021.

Materials and methods: The data on the numbers of enrollees and those enrollees who had completed registration in the SODNTU from 2000 to 2021 were available online to the public and included in this study.

Results: The total number of enrollees in the SODNTU over the past 22 years was 764 with an annual mean of 34.73. The registration rate ranged from 90.91% to 100% with a mean registration rate of 96.86% from 2000 to 2021. The examination admission, individual application admission, and numerous stars initiatives admission were the three main admission ways to enroll students into the SODNTU from 2000 to 2021 with a total of 662 enrollees (86.65% of a total of 764 enrollees). The number (proportion) of enrollees through examination admission showed a decreasing trend year by year from 26 (78.79%) in 2000 to 15 (45.45%) in 2021. On the contrary, those enrollees through individual application admission and numerous stars initiatives admission showed an increasing trend year by year from 4 (12.12%) in 2000 to 14 (42.42%) in 2021.

Conclusion: Although the examination admission is still the predominant admission way, the individual application admission and numerous stars initiatives admission gradually play pivotal roles to enroll students into the SODNTU recently.

Keywords: Dental school enrollees; Examination admission; Individual application admission; Numerous stars initiatives admission; University admission system.