These Regulations have been formulated in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, Paragraph 5 of the University Act; Article 4, Paragraph 4, Article 5, Article 6, Paragraphs 1 and 2, Article 7, Paragraph 5, Article 8 and Article 9, Paragraph 1 of the Junior College Act; and Article 6, Paragraph 2, and Article 34, Paragraph 3 of the Private School Law.

The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:
1. Branch campus: refers to a campus of a junior college or institution of higher education established in another municipality, county or (city) away from the site of the main campus or overseas, and which is an independent educational institution with complete teaching and administrative units.
2. Division: refers to a teaching, recruiting, or academia-industry cooperation unit set up by a junior college or an institution of higher education in addition to its main campus.
3. Alterations: refers to renaming, change of institutional status, and/or amalgamations of junior colleges and institutions of higher education.
(1) "renaming" refers to one of the following changes:
1. An independent college being renamed an ordinary university, or an ordinary university being renamed an independent college.
2. An institute of technology is renamed a university of science and technology, or a university of science and technology being renamed an institute of technology.
3. An institute of technology being renamed an ordinary university or vice versa; an independent college being renamed a university of science and technology or vice versa; an institute of technology being renamed an independent college or vice versa; or an ordinary university being renamed a university of science and technology or vice versa.
4. A junior college or institution of higher education that is renamed.
(2) A "change of institutional status" refers to one of the following circumstances:
1. A junior college becomes an institute of technology (with an affiliated junior college division).
2. A junior college becomes an institute of technology, or an institute of technology that was renamed a university of science and technology becomes a junior college.
3. A skills-based senior high school becomes a junior college, or a junior college becomes a skills-based senior high school.
(3) An "amalgamation" refers to the following situations:
1 .An amalgamation of a junior college or institution of higher education and any branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division it has and another junior college or institution of higher education together with any branch campus(es), division(s), junior college division(s), and skills-based senior high school division(s) it has.
2. An amalgamation of the incorporated legal entity which operates an educational institution (hereunder referred to as a “school endowment corporation”) and a private junior college or institution of higher education of another school endowment corporation.
The regulation set out in Subparagraph 3, Item 1 of the previous paragraph regarding renaming is not applicable to a religious college which was established in accordance with Article 8 of the Private School Law. The amalgamations referred to in Paragraph 1, Subparagraph 3, Item 3 are divided into the following 3 categories:
1. A statutory amalgamation: one educational institution is selected to continue to legally exist after the amalgamation; each other junior college or institution of higher education involved in the amalgamation becomes part of the surviving educational institution, or a branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division.
2. An amalgamation creating a new entity (a so-called “consolidation”): after the amalgamation, a new junior college or institution of higher education is thereby established and it takes a new name. Each former junior college or institution of higher education becomes part of the newly established educational institution, or a branch campus, division, junior college division, or skills-based senior high school division.
3. A junior college or institution of higher education changes its affiliation: A school endowment corporation takes over a private junior college or institution of higher education that was established by another school endowment corporation.

The Ministry of Education (abbreviated hereunder to “MOE”) may set up a Junior Colleges and Institutions of Higher Education Establishment, Alterations, and Cessation of Operations Review Committee (herein referred to as the "Review Committee") to consider matters pertaining to the establishment, alterations to, or cessation of operations of junior colleges and institutions of higher education and their branch campuses, divisions, junior college divisions, and skills-based senior high school divisions.
The Review Committee referred to in the previous paragraph shall have between 9 and 15 members, one of whom, the Minister of Education, shall serve as the convener. The other members shall be appointed by the convener from among scholars, experts, and representatives of relevant organizations to serve in addition to their normal posts.
The Review Committee shall consult with 私立學校諮詢會 the Private School Consultative Committee before reviewing the establishment, alterations to, or cessation of operations of a private junior college or institution of higher education and/or its branch campus(es), division(s), and junior college division(s).