台灣的博士班學生人數

驚人！ 

今周刊　第 775 期報導 國科會「五十七Ｋ」補不了教育部大漏洞　
　
(1) 到底台灣一年生產多少博士？根據教育部統計，台灣目前有一六○所大學、一六一○個博士班，在學的博士生人數為三萬四一七八名。二○一○年（九十八學年）博士畢業生人數為三七○五名。而一九九六年的博士班畢業人數僅一○五三名，這十五年來，本土博士大幅成長超過二．五倍（以文法商為主的政大增幅僅七七％）。明明博士已經供過於求了，但今年教育部核可的博士班招生人數更創下七九○○名的歷史新高紀錄。

(2) 台灣為什麼會製造這麼多博士？回溯到○二年，當時政府要發展「兩兆雙星」重點產業，因此教育部針對這四大產業廣設碩、博士班。「兩兆」指的是半導體及影像顯示產業，「雙星」則是生技製藥與數位內容。十年過去了，兩兆產業似乎僅剩下晶圓代工端得上檯面，雙星至今還是載浮載沉，產業聚落無法成形。但這些因應政策大量增生的博士該何去何從？ 

經濟學人 (Economist) 也報導國際上類似的問題 Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time 

(1) But universities have discovered that PhD students are cheap, highly motivated and disposable labour. (陳東升教授： 講難聽一點，我們以後可能會被罵，是踩在學生身上，在享受資源。)

(2) One OECD study shows that five years after receiving their degrees, more than 60% of PhDs in Slovakia and more than 45% in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany and Spain were still on temporary contracts. Many were postdocs. About one-third of Austria's PhD graduates take jobs unrelated to their degrees. In Germany 13% of all PhD graduates end up in lowly occupations. In the Netherlands the proportion is 21%. ((博士) 阿龍參加的是二○○九年七月在台北舉行的中華電信特考。)

(3) In one study of British PhD graduates, about a third admitted that they were doing their doctorate partly to go on being a student, or put off job hunting. (台灣也是，大學畢業找不到 (好) 工作，就繼續念碩士；碩士畢業找不到 (好) 工作，就繼續念博士。)

(4) One Ivy-League president, asked recently about PhD oversupply, said that if the top universities cut back others will step in to offer them instead. (台灣也是，連頂尖名校的博士班錄取率都已經是 100%，減招的速度還是很慢)