Pukyong National University

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PKNU, the 3rd rank in the University Assessment of Asia.

Pukyong National University(President Kim Young Seop) ranked third among domestic universities without medical college in 2014 University Assessment of Asia

The universities without medical college were assessed separately because they have bigger faculty and more research paper is presented, which helps the medical college gain relatively higher scores compared to other colleges.

According to the Chosun Ilbo · QS Asia University Assessment announced on 13th, Pukyong National University ranked 3rd among domestic universities without medical college(over 12,000 in the number of students) and the 63rd in Asia

According to Chosun Ilbo, the assessment has 4 fields and 9 indicators. △the field of research(60%) △educational condition(20%) △reputation of graduates(10%) △the field of internationalization(10%)

The field of Research includes 3 indicators, academic assessment, the amount of thesis by the faculty, and the number of the thesis being quoted. Chosun Ilbo said that “the academic assessment this year was proceeded through online interviews by sending e-mails to scholars all around the world and asking them to choose universities showing outstanding researching results in the field of their majors in the article on 13th. They also said that they analyzed thesis registered in Thesis DB Scopus on the amount of thesis by the faculty, and the number of the thesis being quoted

The standards on the educational conditions includes the number of students per each faculty and the assessment on reputation of graduates was proceeded through online interviews asking human resources managers in companies around the world to compare the universities from which their competent employees graduated. The criteria of internationalization field has 4 indicators, the rate of foreign faculty, the rate of foreign students, the rate of domestic exchange students, and the rate of exchange students abroad.

Meanwhile, Pukyong National University ranked the 1st among domestic universities in life science area of Leiden Ranking and the 5th in Asia.

Leiden Ranking is the result achieved from researching thesis in the high 10% quoted most among those of 750 high universities all over the world (26 universities domestically) having presented more than 1,000 thesis for 4years from 2009 to 2012 by the Science and Technology Institute of Leiden University in Netherlands. Because the standard of assessment is only about the number of the thesis being quoted, the ranking has been recognized as an objective and accurate measuring system on the quality of faculty’s thesis.<Pukyong today>