The purpose of this study was to examine research issues for dissertations and theses in Taiwan that use the Taiwan Integrated Postsecondary Education Database. The research scopes were relatively broad. The data for this study included 81 theses and dissertations obtained from the National Electronic Thesis and Dissertations System. To understand the development trends in this research, content analysis was conducted on these texts, which were coded and categorized by time, research participant, source type, and research topic. The main findings of this study are as follows. (a) The first thesis was published in 2007, and the most publications in a year was in 2010 (21 papers). (b) The most research participants was in a 2002 survey of university graduates. (c) The most publications in the social and behavioral sciences were filed by Shih Hsin University (13 papers). The highest citation ratio was 4.75, achieved by National Cheng Kung University. (d) The most research topics were observed in the education (34 volumes) and vocational (34 volumes) fields. In conclusion, our study suggests releasing new data for researchers and investigating more diverse research issues.