National Sun Yat-sen University
Huang Tien-mu is also known as Thomas Huang. He obtained a bachelor's degree in banking and finance from National Chengchi University in 1980, master's degree in law from National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) in 1984 and doctoral degree in public administration from the University of Southern California in the United States in 1993. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Privatizing public enterprises in developing countries: The case of Taiwan's government-owned banks".