Pukyong National University

PKNU, the top rank in Korea in the life science area of ‘Leiden Ranking’
- Assessment of 750 World High Class Universities, MIT got its top rank.

Pukyong National University recorded the top rank domestically and the 5th in Asia in the life science area of Leiden Ranking that evaluates world universities based on international thesis.

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.

Pukyong National University got its top rank, taking up 11.2% of quoting rate out of 213 thesis in life science area, which means 24 thesis out of 213 were in the top 10%. This indicates the qualities of thesis of Pukyong National University in the area of life science is as high as they are cited all over the world.

Pukyong National University was followed by POSTECH(9.6%), KAIST(9.5%), Ewha Womans University(7.7%), Kyunghee University(7.6%), Seoul National University(6.4%), Yonsei University(5.9%), Konkuk Univeristy(5.7%), Chungbuk University(5.7%), and Sungkyunkwan Univeristy(5.5%) and the world top ranking was MIT of USA.

Liden Ranking includes 7 different subjects on its assessment; cognitive science, earth and environmental science, mathematical and computer science and engineering, medical science, natural science, social science, and life science.

Pukyong National University presented total 1,039 thesis in the 7 areas above and recorded 11th among domestic universities, accounting for 6.3% of quoting rate. The top ranking was POSTECH and it was followed by KAIST(10.3%), Ewha Womans University(10.1%), GIST(8.3%), Seoul National University(7.4%), Sungkyunkwan University(6.9%), Ulsan University(6.8%), Yonsei University(6.7%), Kyunghee University(6.5%), and Kyungsang University(6.4%)

This assessment was carried out by the Institute of Science and Technology of Leiden University, based on the rate of thesis being quoted in database of Thomson Reuters, the academic information service company. Because only the number of the thesis being quoted is applied to the assessment, the ranking has been recognized as an objective and accurate measuring system on the quality of faculty’s thesis.<Pukyong Today>