Korea University of Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology
Established 2003
Type Government-run
President Un Woo Lee
Students 840 (as of March, 2012)
Location Daejeon & Seoul, Daejeon & Seoul, South Korea South Korea
Campus Urban(Daejeon Campus)
Mascot PEGASUS
Website www.ust.ac.kr
Korea University of Science and Technology
Hangul 과학기술연합대학원대학교
Hanja 科學技術聯合大學院大學校
Revised Romanization Gwahak Gisul Yonhap Dehak'wŏn Dehak'kyo
McCune–Reischauer Kwahak Kisul Yonhap Dehak'won dehak'kyo

The University of Science and Technology (UST) is a group of public universities and research institutions in Seoul, Suwon, Changwon, Ansan, Seongnam and Daejeon, in South Korea. The UST was established in 2003 by Korea's government as the nation’s graduate school specializing in science and engineering education and research. The UST runs only a graduate school. It is one of the top science and technology universities in South Korea along with KAIST and POSTECH. Creating the new driving force for growth would play a major role in leading national growth in the 21st century. The South Korean government established the UST to produce professionals in the field of combined technologies, thought of as one of the most important criteria for creating the driving force for South Korea's national growth. Today, UST continues to develop itself into a major research university.

Education advantages

UST established courses that allow students to build experience in research fields. Lab rotation is an example. UST encourage students to get hands-on experience by actively participating in the research by awarding credits as well as minimizing classroom lectures. UST provide opportunities to participate in projects conducted by other institutions or private companies. UST also adopted Lab rotation programs which enable students to gain relevant experience in various research fields. Students take liberal arts classes as prerequisite so they can be well-grounded as leaders in their given research field, and provide them with insight into society in general.

Special courses

The universities offer special courses in Technical Business Administration, Technical Economics, Technical Strategies, Theories of Research, Planning, and Management, Venture Start-ups, Technical Communication, Technical Writing, etc.

Majors

UST is a graduate program in science and technology taught in English run as a consortium by the advanced research institutes in Daejeon and throughout South Korea.

School of Science

School of Engineering

Campuses

UST has headquarters and following research institutions as campus.

Achievements and vision

Since foundation 2004, UST has been the most qualified research institution in Korea and globally as well. There were 118 Ph.D. and 321 M.S students who came from 28 countries have graduated. The number of SCI-grade theses per student until graduation is 5.44, the highest profile amongst Korean universities. In 2010, UST was followed Seoul National University as the country's second university in the number of published SCI journals (Science Citation Index).

UST is expected to be the main institution that extensively accelerates Korea's scientific research by facing the Nobel Prize Challenge.

Graduates' research achievements

Research projects that were selected as 100 Excellent National Research and Development Projects

Name of Affiliation UST Seoul National University POSTECH GIST KAIST
No. of Project 12 5 5 4 1

Admission

The admissions deadline is usually around start of May and September each year. Like most of Korean universities, the students are required to first get professor approval before formally applying for the admission. The admission is quite competitive but the selective students are given opportunity to work on some of the latest R&D done in Korea and also the amount of stipend (living allowance) given to the students is much higher than KAIST, POSTECH or SNU.

See also

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