Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Seoul National University
of Science and Technology
Motto in English
 Your Future, Our Vision
Type Public (National)
Established 1910
President Kim, Jong Ho
Academic staff
 357
Students 11,503
Undergraduates 10,161
Postgraduates 1,342
Location 232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon District, Seoul, Korea
Campus Urban
Colors Royal blue
Nickname SeoulGwagidae
(서울과기대·서울科技大)
Mascot Black Dragon
Website www.seoultech.ac.kr
Seoul National University of Science and Technology
Hangul 서울과학기술대학교
Hanja 서울科學技術大學校
Revised Romanization Seoul Gwahak Gisul Daehakgyo
McCune–Reischauer Sŏul Kwahak Kisul Taehakkyo

Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) is one of Korea's national universities. Seoul National University of Science and Technology originated from a Vocational Supplementary School established in 1910 by Emperor Gojong’s Royal Decree.[1] Later the school was re-organized as Gyeongseong Public Industrial School, Gyeonggi Technical College, Gyeonggi Open Industrial University, and Seoul National University of Technology before it was finally reborn as Seoul National University of Science and Technology in September 2010 with celebrate the 100th anniversary of its foundation. The institution is also known as 'SeoulTech'.

Today SeoulTech is a large and general university housing six colleges, 23 departments, seven graduate schools and a student enrolment of 11,500 people in a spacious campus of 508,690 square meters (124 acres).[2] This is the 3rd largest campus in the universities of Seoul. The campus, formerly occupied by the engineering departments of Seoul National University,[3] is in Nowon-gu in the northern part of Seoul. Seoul National University of Science and Technology was ranked 42th and 32th in Asia in field of focused university in the 2014 and 2015 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)[4][5] and ranked 15th in Korea in field of Science and Engineering in 2015 by Korea Economic Daily (한국경제신문)[6] and ranked 20th in Korea in field of university in 2014 by JoongAng Ilbo (중앙일보)[7]

Colleges and schools[8]

College of Engineering

College of Information & Telecommunication

College of Energy and Biotechnology

College of Art & Design

College of Humanities & Social Sciences

College of Business & Technology

There are also three professional graduate schools and three special graduate schools within the university. Aside from these, there are a number of specialist research institutes.

Library

The library at Seoul National University of Science and Technology has been operational since the foundation of Eoeudong Public Vocational Continuing School in April 1910. Today, the Library has 600,987 volumes, 11,928 e-books, 23,259 audiovisual materials, and 446 periodicals and academic journals published domestically and abroad.[9]

The Central Library building, completed at the end of 2004, consists of three stories with an area of 9,281 m2 (2,807 pyeong). The first floor houses the library office, seminar rooms, Western archive, and information processing center. The second floor is occupied with Eastern archives and references, periodicals, and an academic journal room. The third floor houses a multimedia room, group study room, and reading room. The annex to Central Library, remodelled in 2011, is a building with an area of 4,896.25 m2 (1,400 pyeong) that is equipped with a reference room, reference room for western books, room for study groups, notebook computer reading room and general reading room. The library has collected academic research works of the professors and the students for the past 100 years.

Other support facilities

Seoul National University of Science and Technology campus map

Aside from the library there is also an Information and Computer Center; a Press and Broadcasting Center; a General Laboratory Building; a Business Incubation Center; an Educational Equipment Management & Technical Support Center; and an International Office/ Centre for International Exchange. Finally, there is an Institute for Language Education and Research staffed by twenty native-speaking English instructors.

Scholarships

The part of campus of Seoul National University of Science and Technology

About half of the student body benefit from a scholarship program which offers education at a comparatively low cost. In 2015, about 6,000 of 11,500 students benefited from scholarship.[10] The school’s current tuition only amounts to 40% of an average private university’s costs and 80% of tuition fees charged by other national universities. In 2014, 47% of tuition was reused for scholarships. SeoulTech also has a number of funded international cooperation programs, and two joint degree programs with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom.

The Institute for Language Education & Research

The Institute for Language Education and Research (ILER) provides a variety of language programs to serve the University's English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese learning needs. The ILER has built a qualified, knowledgeable, and supportive faculty where collaboration is valued to design curriculum relevant for our particular students' needs. There are currently 26 full-time faculty positions.[11] The ILER has a dedicated language center building which houses all needed facilities: professors' offices, administration offices, conference hall, conversation classrooms with round tables, etc. The ILER is a developing PLC (Professional Learning Community), focused on modernizing curriculum, expanding opportunities for research and publication, and fostering a spirit of intercultural exchange.

History

Seoul Techno Park, NT and IT Educational-Industrial Cooperation center

References

  1. ↑ "SEOULTECH < About SEOULTECH < Introduction of SEOULTECH < History < Main History". en.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  2. ↑ "SEOULTECH < About SEOULTECH < University Statistics < Statistics". en.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  3. ↑ "서울사랑". love.seoul.go.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  4. ↑ http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2014/05/13/2014051300238.html
  5. ↑ http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/06/11/2015061100289.html
  6. ↑ http://www.hankyung.com/news/app/newsview.php?aid=2015070576491
  7. ↑ http://univ.joongang.co.kr/university/totalRankingReport.asp
  8. ↑ "SEOULTECH < ACADEMICS < Colleges". en.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  9. ↑ "Seoultech Central Library(Korean)". library.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  10. ↑ "Seoultech, 3.35 billion dollars for national scholarship in 2015". www.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  11. ↑ "Institute for Language Education and Research, Seoultech". language.seoultech.ac.kr. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
  12. ↑ National Seoul Techno Park(STP) Homepage

Coordinates: 37°37′54″N 127°04′43″E / 37.63167°N 127.07861°E / 37.63167; 127.07861

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