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