South Korea has plenty to offer interested students. The country boasts no less than six top-20 entries and 57 representatives in total
Seoul National University is placed joint 36th and number on in South Korea in the QS World University Rankings 2019® and was second in the new QS South Korea University Rankings*. Founded in 1946 as South Korea’s first national university, Seoul National University is one of the three prestigious SKY universities and provides research-led liberal education to around 28,378 students from undergraduate to PhD level. According to data collected by the Korean Educational Development Institute, Seoul National University spends more on its students per capita than any other South Korean university with more than 10,000 students.
The third private research institution included in the SKY trio, Korea University has a long-held rivalry with Yonsei University which is reflected in the many competitive sporting events between the two. Ranked 86th in the world and third in the South Korea ranking, Korea University currently has a student body of around 37,000, and, of its faculty of 1,700, over 95 percent hold a PhD or equivalent within their field. The school’s college of law is reputed for offering one of the most prestigious undergraduate law programs in the country. The university, which boasts an Olympic-sized ice rink within its campus, also ranks highly for chemical engineering, social policy and administration, modern languages, politics and accounting and finance.
Located in Seoul, Korea University is departmentally divided across the city, with its main Anam campus just minutes away from a popular selection of restaurants, bars, shops and cultural attractions, including a famous Buddhist temple
Ranked joint 100th this year in the global rankings and fourth in the South Korea ranking, Sungkyunkwan University is another private institution which has two main campuses, a Humanities and Social Sciences campus in Seoul and a Natural Sciences campus further south in Suwon. The university has a long history dating back to its founding in 1398 by the Joseon Dynasty, and today has around 34,700 students enrolled. Sungkyunkwan is considered to have one of the best medical schools in the country (ranked 101-150 globally in the subject rankings and third in South Korea), which is affiliated with the world-famous Samsung Medical Center. The university appears among the world’s best for a further 29 subjects, including the top 50 for mechanical engineering, library and information management, and materials sciences.