On average, an educational expenditure of $5,742 is spent on a junior college student, which is lower than $10,109 spent on a university student and $9,666 spent on a secondary high school student.
The student-faculty ratio is 39.1 to 1 in junior colleges, as compared to the OECD average (2009) of 14.9 students.
The oversupply rate of newly graduates produced by junior colleges is estimated to a high of 15.1% for the 2011~2020 period and the trend of oversupply is expected to continue.
The employment rate of the junior college graduates among youth reached 77.3% in 2007, it was down by 1.5%p to 75.8% in 2011.
Junior colleges' role in developing professional technical manpower needs to be reinforced by, for instance, providing field-oriented education, and expanding continuing education opportunities to people in employment.