Since the 1950s, Taiwan has made great strides in higher education. However, its developmental growth has not been stable. Different studies show different ways to distinguish the stages of higher education development: Chen (2008) stated the stages of development in Taiwan from 1949 to the present can be seen as the following eras: early development (1949-1953), embryonic (1954-1971), controlling (1972-1985), releasing martial law (1986-1993), open (1994-). Zhou (2003) describes three stages: in infancy (1987-1988), growth (1989-1993), rising (1994-1998), and criticism and reflection (1999-2003). Different observations all indicate that the scale of higher education in Taiwan began to grow in the 1990s. Although the current higher education scale in Taiwan seems to have ceased expanding, it turns to the focus of source distribution and the international ranking for both public and private universities. This paper explores the uniqueness of institutional support and faculty development in Taiwan's public and private universities under such phenomena.