1996年教育部前政務次長楊朝祥在立法院報告時，就已預測未來將開放採認大陸學歷；2006年杜正勝部長曾在立法院報告台生「赴大陸就讀與其他國家相較無語言隔閡，正面衝擊即私立學校招生不足、壓縮私校發展空間的問題」。我國私立大學數量已達108所（含軍警院校7所與空中大學2所），在出生人口成長率逐年降低的情況下，未來勢必面臨招生不足的問題，如貿然開放大陸地區高等學歷檢覈及採認，恐將造成台灣學生到大陸留學之浪潮，進而衝擊國內高等教育發展的長遠規劃，影響國內大專院校生源與經營。在2003學年有11所私立專科學校，共出現超過4,000個招生空缺，招生不足情況還在持續惡化中，2008學年的大學聯考錄取數已超過報名數2,000人，接著台灣軍警學校、大陸高校和外國學校一一放榜，2008年起年私立大學的招生空缺將會越來越多，冷門科系可能會面臨生存危機。

When the former Political Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Zhao-Xiang Yang, reported in front of the Legislative Yuan in 1996, he already predicted the acceptance and acknowledgement of Mainland Chinese academic degrees; in 2006 Mr. Zheng-Sheng Du, then Minister of Education, reported in the Legislative Yuan that “compared to other countries, Taiwanese students have less of a language barrier to overcome when they pursue their education in Mainland China. The direct impact of this phenomenon is the low enrollment rate in private schools and the problem of restriction of development in private institutions here in Taiwan.” Private universities have grown to 108 institutions in Taiwan (including seven military and police academies as well as two open universities), in light of decreasing birthrates, it is inevitable that these institutions will be challenged with insufficient enrollment rates in the future. If the policy for validation and acknowledgement of Mainland Chinese academic degrees is rashly implemented, it may result in a wave of Taiwanese students studying abroad in China, in turn impacting the long-term planning for the development of domestic higher education, affecting the student source as well as the management for tertiary educational institutions. In the 2003 academic year, there are 11 private technical colleges with a shortage of 4,000 student admissions total. The low enrollment rate continues to worsen, in the academic year of 2008, the admission number from the College Entrance Exam for colleges and universities are 2,000 over the number of applicants. Followed by the release of admission decisions from Taiwan military and police academies, tertiary educational institutions from China as well as other countries, from 2008 onwards, private universities will face increasing enrollment vacancies, less popular departments may also be confronted with a crisis for survival.