近年來,全球的高等教育邁向國際化與多元化。在各大學越來越強調功能性導向之下,本研究使用現有的國內資料去了解國內高等教育是否也有像歐美一樣分為研究、教學型的發展趨勢。因每間學校的資源是有限的,即可透過本研究了解目前該校發展出來是屬於哪一類型,提供給各校探討是否與該校想要規劃發展的趨勢是否有所不同,故此資訊可提供給該校去做資源調整與做為發展定位之參考。另外,國內因高等教育經費分配分散、緊縮且公私立大學的基本體制的不同情況下,透過此研究分類結果,提供讓政府可以做適當的資源分配。 本研究透過文獻探討後,了解國內外大學的發展類型與分類的依據、國內排名的指標依據以及國際化對我國高等教育的重要性。故本研究採用三大指標,分別為研究型大學指標、教學型大學指標以及國際化大學指標,並透過本研究方法的相似性目標函數進行分類。 本研究結果顯示,在使用相似性目標函數分類下,81所大學被分為九大群。此外,有學者指出教育部五年五百億計劃入選的大學,多為偏向研究型大學;而本研究進一步分析發現,五年五百億計劃入選的大學與本研究結果之分群比較,入選的大學皆落在擁有研究型大學的特性。表示此研究方法分類的結果,與實際狀況相符合。
In recent years, the global of higher education moves to internationalization and diversification. Every university is more and more emphasis on the functional-orientation and base on existing domestic date, this study tries to realize that domestic higher education, is the same as Europe and U.S., can be classified into research and teaching developed trends. Because each school's resources are limited, every school can understand which type it belongs to and does there exist difference between the plan and the trend by this study. At the same time, the study can supply the information for the university to posit its’ trend of development. Through the literature review, we can understand the type and classification of domestic and foreign universities based on national rankings of the index and the importance of internationalization to the domestic higher education. Therefore, this study uses three indexes, they are Research University index, Teaching University index, and Internationalization University index. Then we can classify these indexes by the objective function. The result shows when we use the SCM objective function for classification, 81 universities can be divided into nine groups. Furthermore, there is some scholars indicate the ministry of education’s policy (The Fifty Billion for Five yeas) which universities are partial to research type. This phenomenon is the same as the result of this study.