Reimagining Business Education in Taiwan: Insights from Global Benchmarks, Historical Context, and Expert Perspectives

This study provides a comprehensive examination of the development, contemporary challenges, and future directions of business education in Taiwan. Integrating global benchmarking, historical analysis, institutional data, and interviews with senior scholars, the study compares Taiwanese business schools with leading institutions in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. The analysis shows that while Taiwan's business education system broadly aligns with global priorities such as experiential learning, artificial intelligence and digital literacy, sustainability and ESG integration, internationalization, and lifelong learning, it faces distinct structural constraints. These include demographic decline, institutional rigidity, limited resources, uneven international visibility, and challenges in faculty development for emerging interdisciplinary fields. Historical analysis traces the evolution of business education in Taiwan from its dual track origins through postwar expansion, massification, and accreditation driven quality enhancement. Insights from expert interviews identify ten systemic challenges related to curriculum design, governance, industry collaboration, internationalization, and research translation, and propose corresponding reform directions. The study concludes that Taiwan's business schools must pursue strategic differentiation, deepen practice oriented and interdisciplinary education, strengthen global engagement, and enhance research to practice integration in order to remain competitive and to contribute effectively to national economic and societal development.