Chungju National University

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Hangul	충주대학교
Hanja	忠州大學校
Revised Romanization	Chungju Daehakgyo
McCune-Reischauer	Ch'ungju Taehakkyo

Chungju National University is one of several industrial universities in South Korea. It is a public university in Chungju City, North Chungcheong province. It enrolls about 200 graduate and 8,000 undergraduate students, and employs about 295 professors. The current president is Byoung-Woo Ahn.

1 Academics
2 History
3 Sister schools
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Academics

The university's undergraduate offerings are provided through its four colleges: the College of Techno-System Engineering, the College of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, the College of Construction and Applied Chemistry Engineering, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the Division of Liberal Arts.

Two graduate schools provide the university's graduate offerings: the Graduate School of Industry and the Graduate School of Business, Public Administration and Foreign Languages.

[edit] History

The school opened in 1962 as Chungju Technical Junior College (충주공업초급대학), a two-year school. It became Chungju Technical College, offering a five-year program, in 1965, and was nationalized in 1971. However, it was returned to the status of a two-year junior college in 1974. It was moved to its present-day location in 1982. Eleven years later in 1993, it became a four-year university, Chungju National University of Industry. In March 2006 it merged Cheongju National College of Science and Technology (Jeungpyeong campus now).

[edit] Sister schools

The university maintains domestic sisterhood relationships with numerous institutions, including Korea's 19 other universities of industry. In addition, it has international ties with eight universities in six countries: the United States (University of Sacramento), China (Beijing University of Technology and Shanghai University), the Philippines (De La Salle University-Manila), Japan (Oita University and Kyushu Institute of Technology), the United Kingdom (University of Westminster), and Australia (Deakin University).