高等教育的兩股潮流，就是國際化與競爭力，而兩者間彼此又息息相關。大學如果愈能調整並符合外國學生的需求，就會吸引更多的外學生就讀，進而達到國際化的目的。而大學生如果能夠在國際間自由流動，將來的發展也就不受某一個國家或政府的範圍所侷限。全球化的概念使得資本與勞力在全世界尋求最好的，同樣的情形也將發生在學生、學校上。高等教育的輸出，成為高等教育國際化的重要面向，特別是在GATS協功實施之後，本文探討了澳洲、日本、馬來西亞、歐盟對於大學教育國際化的具體做法與成效，對應於我國目前的措施，分析值得參考與借鏡之處，總之，我國的大學教育，必須從封閉的系統走向開放的系統。

The two big trends in higher education, of internationalization and competition, feed each other. The more that universities tailor their offers to foreign students, the more attractive they become. And the more that students hop between countries, the more their choices count rather than the wishes of a particular government. Just as globalization has let capital and labor search the world for the best deal, the same is happening with students and academics. The export of higher education services has become a major and controversial aspect of the internationalization of higher education, especially with the current GATS negotiations. This study has discussed the concrete procedure and the result of internationalization about Australia, Japan, Malaysia and European Union regarding the higher education. We correspond these countries to Taiwan. Finally, internationalization is a process of changing system to open system for the Taiwan universities.