In 2018 the British higher educational research company, Quacquarelli Symonds, placed TKU the fourth time in Asia's best university rankings; from among the seven indicators, the proportion of international students, the proportion of foreign exchange students, the proportion of Taiwan students going abroad as exchange students have grown significantly. This is an obvious concrete expression of the long term promotion of the ideal of Globalization. The present number of established sister-school relations this year already amounts to 207 schools in 36 countries extending over five continents of the world; there are transnational double degree programs with 21 schools from six nations, and there are 2,054 overseas degree students from 75 nations. In 2015 TKU earned the Outstanding Internationalization Award from the Ministry of Education and thus becoming a model school for internationalization.
After TKU steps into the fifth wave, the Triple Objectives of Globalization, Information-oriented Education, and Future-oriented Education will adopt a balanced development. In 2018 the "Tamkang Clement and Carrie Chair" was established with the hope of being able to promote more internationally renowned scholars to give lectures, to engage in intensive lectures series and to do cooperative research thus promoting Tamkang's position on the stage of the global village. As for the Information-oriented Education, TKU will take "intellect" as its core spirit, implement a digital transformation, create a smart campus 2.0, utilize the new concepts of smart technology and service design including big data, artificial intelligence, mobile computing, cloud computing, and internet of things. Upon earning the National Quality Award for the Total Quality Management System, TKU leads in the area of advanced smart technology in teaching, administration, and service, advancing organizational activation, effective utilization of human resources, upgrading service quality and creating value added letting the entire faculty, staff, student body and alumni amply feel convenience, safety, excellence and well-being. The Future-oriented Education is located in having the characteristic of social responsibility in the diversity of "Collaborative Foresight"; this continues refining future studies courses, upgrading teaching pedagogy in order to strengthen the clear understanding of students in their Future-oriented Education and competency development.
In the "Top 2,000 Enterprises' Favorite College Graduates" survey conducted by Cheers Business Magazine, in 2018, TKU has ranked first among all private universities continuously for 21 consecutive years and ninth place among all institutes of higher learning in Taiwan. In the proportion of the survey's nine main categories, among the private universities TKU was the first place in eight out of nine categories. In the rankings of Taiwan's best university for 2018 by Global Views Monthly among the five main items: social influence, academic accomplishment, teaching performance, degree of internationalization, and promotion and income from industry and academia, in the 34 indicators of the investigation, TKU earned eighth place nationwide for social influence, fourth place for the degree of internationalization, and business category. TKU is happy to have this outstanding performance, yet this urges us to double our efforts in the future to add value to academic professionalism, strengthen teaching, boost industry and academia cooperation, and establish a teaching ecosystem of innovative entrepreneurship. With the foundation of Tamkang Culture and the accomplishments of the Founder and other successive presidents, the good achievements should again be carried on by building upon the initial successes and by taking the spirit of the old to create the new so as to erect a superb, first-rate, world-class comprehensive university.