2009 Top 20 South Korea University Ranking(WnP)

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1. Seoul National University http://www.snu.ac.kr/
2. Korea Advanced Institute of Science &Technology http://www.kaist.ac.kr/
3. Yonsei University http://www.yonsei.ac.kr/
4. Korea University http://www.korea.ac.kr/
5. Pohang University of Science and Technology http://www.postech.ac.kr/
6. SungKyunKwan University http://www.skku.ac.kr/
7. Sogang University http://www.sogang.ac.kr/
8. Hanyang University http://www.hanyang.ac.kr/
9. Chung-Ang University http://www.cau.ac.kr/
10. Ewha Women's University http://www.ewha.ac.kr/
11. KyungHee University http://www.kyunghee.ac.kr/
12. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies http://www.hufs.ac.kr/
13. University of Seoul http://www.uos.ac.kr/
14. Dongguk University http://www.dongguk.edu/
15. Konkuk University http://www.konkuk.ac.kr/
16. Pusan National University http://www.pusan.ac.kr/
17. Hongik University home.hongik.ac.kr
18. Inha University http://www.inha.ac.kr/
19. Kyungpook National University http://www.knu.ac.kr/
20. Ajou University http://www.ajou.ac.kr/

Subject Rankings of South Korea Universities

• Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
  1. SEOUL National Univ
  2. YONSEI Univ
  3. KOREA Univ
  4. Sogang Univ
  5. SungKyunKwan Univ
  
  
  
• Business & Economics
  1. YONSEI Univ
  2. SEOUL National Univ
  3. KOREA Univ
  4. Sogang Univ
  5. SungKyunKwan Univ
  
  
  
• Law Schools(~2008)
  1. SEOUL National Univ
  2. KOREA Univ
  3. YONSEI Univ
  4. SungKyunKwan Univ
  5. Sogang Univ
  
  *In South Korea, a law school is an undergraduate institution since 2008
  
  
  
• Law Schools (2009~)
  1. SEOUL National Univ
  2. YONSEI Univ
  3. SungKyunKwan Univ
  4. KOREA Univ
  5. Ewha Women's Univ
  
  
  *A separate law school system similar to that of the United States with the new graduate-level law schools opened in 2009. Only a limited number of universities were permitted to establish such graduate-level law schools.
  
  
  
• Science & Engineering
  1. Korea Advanced Inst of Sci & Tech
  2. Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
  3. SEOUL National Univ
  4. YONSEI Univ
  5. Hanyang Univ
  
  
  
• Medical Schools
  1. SEOUL National Univ
  2. YONSEI Univ
  3. The Catholic Univ of Korea
  4. SungKyunKwan Univ
  5. Univ of Ulsan
  
  
  
  

2008 Academic Ranking of S.Korea Universities(SJTU)

National Rank / Asia Rank / World Rank / University


1 = 17~22 = 152~200
= SEOUL National Univ

2~3 = 23~41 = 201~302
= Korea Advanced Inst of Sci & Tech / YONSEI Univ

4~7 = 42~68 = 303~401
= HANYANG Univ / KOREA Univ / Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech
/ Sungkyunkwan Univ

8 = 69~100 = 402~503
= Pusan National Univ


* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.





Shanghai Jiao Tong University published its Top 100 Asia Pacific Pacific Universities 2008.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), “highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories” (20 percent), articles published in Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (20 percent) and the per capita academic performance (on the indicators above) of an institution (10 percent). The results have been cited by The Economist magazine.

2008 Top Universities in South Korea by THES QS

National Rank / World Rank / University


1 = 50 = SEOUL National Univ

2 = 95 = KAIST - Korea Advanced Inst of Sci & Tech

3 = 188 = Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech

4 = 203 = YONSEI Univ

5 = 236 = KOREA Univ

6 = 344 = HANYANG Univ

6 = 370 = SungKyunKwan Univ



*KAIST and Pohang Univ of Sci & Tech are small-scale university



*The THE - QS World University Rankings is an annual publication that ranks the "Top 200 World Universities", and is published by Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The full listings feature on the QS website and on the THE website. They have been running since 2004 and are broken down by subject and region.