SDG 11.4.5 Affordable housing for students

1. NCUE has seven dormitory buildings on campus, with capacity for 3,312 students. All buildings are access-controlled. Students enter and leave by card to maintain a safe living environment.

(1) Of the rooms, 79% are affordable rooms with shared bathrooms for three to four students, and 21% are en-suite rooms for two to four students. Rooms measure about 16–29 m², all with exterior windows for ventilation. Every building has a common room and a reading room, with internet access, air conditioning, washing machines, tumble dryers and vending machines.

(2) Resident advisers on night duty and elected student dormitory officers support residents in daily life.

(3) Accommodation fees per student per semester are NTD 5,930–9,230 for a room with shared bathroom, NTD 15,000 for a four-person en-suite room (including accessible rooms) and NTD 30,000 for a two-person en-suite room. On-campus fee for rooms with shared bathrooms are about half the local off-campus market rent. Fees for en-suite rooms are set with reference to the local market rates (Table 1).

(4) A comparison of equivalent room types across 12 institutions, including universities of education and national universities in central Taiwan, shows that NCUE offers the lowest accommodation fees. The comparison uses the four-person room with a shared bathroom in Student Dormitory No. 6 on the Jinde Campus as an example, demonstrating how NCUE students’ financial burden.

2. Number of rooms in campus dormitories: 549 rooms on the Jinde Campus and 344 rooms on the Shida Campus, with a total of 3,312 beds. This is sufficient to meet the housing needs of 45% of all students, as shown in Table 2.

3. International students are given priority for on-campus accommodation each year, and pay no accommodation fee in their first year.

4. Photographs of the dormitories are shown in Figures 2–4.

5. Information on student dormitories is shown in Figure 5. (URL: https://studentweb.ncue.edu.tw/p/412-1003-1398.php)

6. On-Campus Accommodation Subsidies:

(1) To reduce students’ accommodation costs and help them focus on their studies, the Ministry of Education introduced the “On-Campus Accommodation Subsidy for Students of Universities and Colleges,” which in principle living on campus. The scheme took effect in February 2024 and generally provides up to NTD 5,000 per student per semester, or up to NTD 7,000 for students from low-income and lower-middle-income households (“economically disadvantaged students”). The “Ministry of Education Guidelines for the On-Campus Accommodation Subsidy for Students of Universities and Colleges” were adopted on May 29, 2025. From February 2026, children of active-duty military personnel for a subsidy of up to NTD 7,000 per semester (Figure 6).

(2) Under these guidelines, students living on campus who hold Republic of China (Taiwan) nationality are eligible, including degree-seeking students from overseas who also hold this nationality. Students do not need to submit a separate subsidy application. The University deducts the applicable subsidy from the accommodation bill according to the student’s status, and residents pay only the balance, and residents pay only the remaining balance. If the accommodation fee is lower than the maximum subsidy, the subsidy covers the fee in full.

(3) Subsidy period: the first semester runs from August to January of the following year, and the second from February to July. Subsidies are generally calculated based on 18 weeks per semester, excluding the winter and summer vacations. In 2025, a toral of 5,138 subsidy awards were made, amounting to NTD 25,585,775 (Table 3).

(4) The Accommodation Services Section of the Office of Student Affairs provides an explanation of the Ministry of Education on-campus accommodation subsidy on its webpage (Figure 7): https://studentweb.ncue.edu.tw/p/412-1003-3649.php?Lang=zh-tw