{
  "query": {
    "country": "TW",
    "cycle": "first",
    "student_group": "home",
    "study_mode": "full-time",
    "faculty": "humanities_law"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "TWD",
    "unit": "per semester (posted fee standard)",
    "value": 42700,
    "measure": "median",
    "median": 42700,
    "typical_low": 22033,
    "typical_high": 48274,
    "min": 20200,
    "max": 85000
  },
  "sample_size": 69,
  "period": {
    "from": "2025-09-01",
    "to": "2026-08-31"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "posted_price",
  "as_of": "2026-10-23T08:53:50.417Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "tw-tuition",
    "name": "Tuition and miscellaneous fee standards of Taiwan colleges and universities (data.gov.tw dataset 24726)",
    "publisher": "Ministry of Education, Taiwan (via data.gov.tw)",
    "licence": "Open Government Data License, version 1.0 (Taiwan): free reuse, including commercial, with attribution",
    "licence_url": "https://data.gov.tw/license",
    "attribution": "Source: Ministry of Education, Taiwan, via data.gov.tw (Open Government Data License v1.0).",
    "url": "https://data.gov.tw/en/datasets/24726"
  },
  "method": "Taiwan tuition: the Ministry of Education's fee standards for day-programme bachelor's degrees (data.gov.tw dataset 24726), newest academic year in the file. For the chosen faculty group we take the posted per-semester fee (tuition plus miscellaneous fees) of every institution that offers it and report the median and the 10th to 90th percentile across institutions, each counted once. These are fees institutions may charge, not payments by students; no figure is given from fewer than 5 institutions.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "For the 2025/26 academic year, the posted tuition and miscellaneous fee standard for humanities and law bachelor's degrees at Taiwan institutions has a median of NT$42,700 per semester (typical range NT$22,033 to NT$48,274, cheapest NT$20,200, dearest NT$85,000; an academic year has two semesters). Based on 69 records from Ministry of Education, Taiwan (via data.gov.tw) (2025-09-01 to 2026-08-31). Confidence: high.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "academic_year": "2025/26",
    "roc_academic_year": 114,
    "faculty": "humanities_law",
    "faculty_label": "humanities and law",
    "counted": "institutions (each once), not students",
    "fee_basis": "posted fee standard per semester (tuition plus miscellaneous fees), full-time day-programme bachelor's degrees, NT$",
    "approx_per_academic_year_median": 85400,
    "public_vs_private": {
      "public": {
        "institutions": 33,
        "median": 23590
      },
      "private": {
        "institutions": 36,
        "median": 45627
      }
    },
    "median_by_faculty": {
      "medicine": {
        "institutions": 25,
        "median": 56825
      },
      "dentistry": {
        "institutions": 7,
        "median": 65115
      },
      "medical_college": {
        "institutions": 20,
        "median": 55672
      },
      "engineering": {
        "institutions": 95,
        "median": 51556
      },
      "science_agri": {
        "institutions": 51,
        "median": 28710
      },
      "business": {
        "institutions": 103,
        "median": 45020
      },
      "humanities_law": {
        "institutions": 69,
        "median": 42700
      },
      "other": {
        "institutions": 33,
        "median": 47597
      }
    },
    "attribution_notice": "Source: Ministry of Education, Taiwan, via data.gov.tw (Open Government Data License v1.0)."
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_002a2bc1af12f66eb9a0",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-23T08:53:50.416Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "posted_price",
    "label": "Posted or listed price",
    "meaning": "A price a seller, market or authority publishes in advance (a shelf price, tariff, fee schedule or quoted wholesale price): it is what is asked, not a record of what each customer paid."
  },
  "reliability": "record_level",
  "data_as_of": "2026-08-31",
  "data_age_days": 53,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is a posted price, not what each customer paid."
  ]
}