Top 10 Universities of South Korea

Korea University ranking, Top universities in Korea.

Obtaining higher education and getting degree in Bachelor and Masters is one of the most have thing in this modern world. In order to obtain one's higher education degree educational institutions plays a vital role. Universities is an educational institution in which a person can obtain theirs higher education degree.

There are a lot of educational institutions that provide higher education in Korea. In this article you will find out the top universities in Korea. Here's the list of South Korea top 10 ranking university to obtain higher education degree. These are the list of best universities in Korea.

10. Hanyang University 


Hanyang University is a private University which is located in the capital of the country south Korea. It is a top ranking university in South Korea which was established in the year 1939. The main campus of Hanyang university is located in Seoul, Seongdong district where as the satellite campus, ERICA campus is located in Ansan, Sangnok District.

Hanyang University was the first university in the country to bring engineering degree program for the first time. This university provides undergrads program in field relating to engineering, medicines, humanities, computer science and other programs.

9. Sejong University

Sejong University is a private university which is located in capital of the the country south Korea. It is a private university which was established in the year 1940. It is one of the top universities in the world and also in South Korea. This university has a total of nine undergraduate collage. Sejong university provides undergrads program in field relating to Economics, History, Business administration, Mathematics and other programs.

8. Kyung Hee University


KHU is the abbreviation of Kyung Hee University which is a private research university that is situated in Seoul and Suwon. It was established in the year 1949 which is also regarded as one of the best university of South Korea. KHU has a total of 3 campuses. This university is regarded as University of Korean medicines. Kyung Hee university provides central museum, Natural history museum, Hye Jung museum facility.

7. Korea University 


Korea University is also a private university which is located in Seoul, South Korea. It is a research university which was established in the year 1905. Korea university is also included as the sky university which is known for Korea's three prestigious university. This university provides programs relating to law,  Business administration, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics and other programs.

6. Ulsan national institute of science and Technology


Ulsan national institute of science and technology is one of the four public university based on South Korea. It is simply known as UNIST which is focused mainly on science and technology. For the sake of growing demand of higher educating UNIST was found in the year 2007. It is located in Ulsan, South Korea. It provides various programs relating to mechanical engineering, Urban and environmental engineering, Nuclear engineering and other programs.

5. Sungkyunkwan University 


Sungkyunkwan University is a private research university which is based in South Korea. This university is located in central Seoul the capital of country. Sungkyunkwan university was found in 1398 which was later reformed into modern school in 1895. The modern university period of this university started after 1895. The expenses of this university is mostly on research and development R&D which is mostly sponsored by Samsung. Sungkyunkwan university is also one of the top university of south Korea.

4. Pohang university of science and technology


Pohang university of science and technology is situated in Pohang city which lies in the Gyeongbuk province of South Korea. It was established in 1986 by POSCO which is a steel making company of South Korea. It is a private university of South Korea and one of the top universities of South Korea which motto is integrity, creativity and aspiration.

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3. Korea advance institute of science and technology


Korea advance institute of science and technology is one of the best university in Korea. It was established by the government of Korea in the year 1971 which is the nations first public, research oriented science and engineering institution that is located in Daejeon metropolis, South Korea. It is also called as KAIST which has two campuses in Daejeon and one in Seoul but mainly the university is located in Daejeon metropolis.

2. Yonsei University


Yonsei university is one of the private research university which is situated in the capital of the country. It is said to be one of the top 3 university of south Korea which was established in the year 1885. It is located in Seoul, Seodaemun district of South Korea. Yonsei university is one of the three Sky university which is the most prestigious in the country. This university provides several programs to undergrads like liberal arts, business, science and technology and various other programs. 

1. Seoul National University


Seoul National University (SNU) is one of the three Sky university which is the most  prestigious in the country. It falls under the top 3 university of the South Korea. Out of the 3 campuses the main campus of Seoul National university is in Seoul, Gwanak district. It was established in the year 1946 which is considered as the most prestigious university of South Korea.