Contents [hide]
1 Introduction
1.1 History
1.2 Timeline
1.3 List of Presidents at POSTECH
2 University Rankings
3 Campus
3.1 Tae-Joon Park Digital Library
3.2 Smart Campus
3.3 On-Campus Dormitories and Family Housing
3.4 Gymnasium and Sports Complex
3.5 First Bilingual Campus in Korea
4 Academics
4.1 Admissions
4.1.1 Graduate Admissions
4.2 Undergraduate Education
4.2.1 Cultural Programs
4.3 Departments
4.3.1 Undergraduate Departments
4.3.2 Graduate Departments
5 Research
5.1 Research Institutes and Infrastructure
5.1.1 Pohang Light Source (PLS-II)
5.1.2 4th Generation Light Source
5.1.3 Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative
5.1.4 POSTECH Biotech Center
5.1.5 National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology
5.1.6 C5 (Creative・Collaborative・Cultivating・Convergence・Center)
6 Student Life
6.1 Sunrise Festival
6.2 POSTECH-KAIST Science War
6.3 Hyungsan Academic Festival
7 Annual Budget (FY 2014)
7.1 Revenue (Total USD $325.4M, USD $1=KRW1,060)
7.2 Expenses (Total USD $325.4M, US$1=KRW1,060)
8 Notes and references
9 External links
Introduction[edit]
History[edit]
First President of POSTECH and Founding Chairman
First president of POSTECH Hogil Kim with founding chairman Tae-joon Park.
POSTECH was established in 1986 in Pohang, Korea by POSCO, one of the world's leading steel companies, for the purpose of providing advanced education for budding engineers and laying the groundwork for future technological development.[2]
The founder of POSCO and the founding chairman of POSTECH, Park Tae-joon realized the need for Korea to educate their youth in science and technology to ensure Korea's position in the high technology arena. Park wanted to use the California Institute of Technology as a model for POSTECH and visited the university on a business trip to Los Angeles in 1985. He noted characteristics of CALTECH and requested to the POSTECH founding team to establish a contemporary research university that had: a low student-faculty ratio, a greater proportion of graduate students to undergraduates, a low net education cost, student on-campus housing, and a high-quality campus environment. These features represented a drastic departure from the Korean universities of the 1980s.[2]
POSCO organized a task force on February 21, 1984 made up of POSCO employees selected by the company. Construction work began on August 17, 1985. On May 4, 1986, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited POSTECH and donated an Inmos transputer, one of the leading edge computer parts at the time. The first matriculation ceremony was held on March 5, 1987. A group of 249 freshman were selected from the top one percent of all graduating seniors in Korea to be taught by an international faculty recruited by POSTECH founding president Hogil Kim and POSTECH task force head manager Dai Kong Lee. The first degree awarding ceremony was on February 20, 1991. Diplomas were awarded to 146 graduating seniors, 123 (84%) of whom went on to pursue graduate studies. The remaining 23 graduates were employed by the nation's major corporations including POSCO, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai.[3]
To facilitate translational research and active academia-industry collaboration, POSTECH hosted POSCO's Research Institute of Science and Technology (RIST) on campus. In 1994, POSTECH set up the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), a 3rd-generation synchrotron light source and now a national facility. Currently, the 4th-generalization X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) light source is under construction (to be completed in 2015) at the cost of US$400 million, which will be the third one in the world and will open up new frontiers and research areas in life sciences, materials, chemistry, and physics.
Margaret Thatcher visits POSTECH
Margaret Thatcher with POSTECH president Hogil Kim in May 1986.
Timeline[edit]
Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology
The Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology is the world's only fully accredited institute in the field of steel science and technology.
POSTECH President at Commencement
Sixth POSTECH President Yongmin Kim in February 2013.
December 3, 1986 POSTECH founded by Founding Chairman Tae-joon Park and First President Hogil Kim
March 5, 1987 First matriculation ceremony
March 1, 1989 Department of Life Sciences established
February 7, 1990 First commencement for M.S. candidates
February 20, 1991 Conferment of first B.S. degrees
December 7, 1994 Completion of Pohang Light Source
May 15, 1998 Ranked 1st among Asian science and technology universities by Asiaweek Magazine
February 28, 2000 Pohang Techno Park established jointly with the City of Pohang and POSCO
August 23, 2001 Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics relocates to POSTECH
August 17, 2002 Selected as an "Excellent University for Educational Reform for the 7th consecutive year by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development
April 25, 2003 Tae-joon Park Digital Library opens
September 9, 2005 Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT) established
May 30, 2007 National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology established
March 2, 2010 Bilingual campus declared
June 14, 2010 Agreement with Max Planck Socierty to establish Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative
September 16, 2010 Ranked 28th in the World University Rankings by Times Higher Education
July 6, 2011 Department of Creative IT Engineering established
August 20, 2012 Graduate School of Engineering Mastership established
December 1, 2012 Selected as one of the 2012 Top 100 Global Innovators by Thomson Reuters
February 15, 2013 Tae-joon Park Institute opened
May 9, 2013 Groundbreaking of PAL-XFEL
June 13, 2013 Four research centers of Institute for Basic Science established
June 20, 2013 Ranked 1st among the top 100 universities under 50 years old by Times Higher Education
List of Presidents at POSTECH[edit]
Number Name Years in office
1 Hogil Kim 1985-1994
2 Sooyoung Chang 1994-1998
3 Sungkee Chang 1998-2002
4 Chanmo Park 2003-2007
5 Sunggi Baik 2007-2011
6 Yongmin Kim 2011–Present
University Rankings[edit]
University rankings
Global
Times[4] 60
Asia
Times[5] 10
In 1998, POSTECH was ranked by Asiaweek as the best science and technology university in Asia.[6] From 2002 to 2006, one of Korea's most circulated daily newspapers, JoongAng Ilbo, ranked POSTECH as the leading university in Korea. In 2010, the Times Higher Education ranked POSTECH 28th in the world.[7] In 2011, the Times Higher Education[8] ranked the university as the 53rd best university in the world, the 6th best in Asia, and the best in South Korea. In 2011, QS World University Rankings[9] ranked POSTECH 98th overall in the world. It remains third best ranked in Korea, after Seoul National University and KAIST, in the QS Asian University Rankings.[10] However, in the Times Higher Education rankings, it scored highly after compilers placed less emphasis on "reputation and heritage" and gave more weight to objective measures including the influence of universities' research, placing 53rd.[11] In 2012 and 2013, the Times Higher Education ranked POSTECH 1st in its "100 Under 50 Young Universities" rankings.[12] The New York Times[13] and the International Herald Tribune[14] cited POSTECH's rapid ascent as a young university to top the world rankings in less than 50 years.
Campus[edit]
POSTECH is a 400-acre campus located twenty minutes by car from downtown Pohang, a forty minute drive from the eastern coast, ninety minutes by bus from Busan, and approximately four hours by bus or train from Seoul.
Tae-Joon Park Digital Library[edit]
Completed in 2003, the Tae-Joon Park Library is 24,420 square meters with 352,977 volumes and 8,324 digital and paper journals. As of 2005, the library collection consists of approximately 320,000 books, 3,500 journals, 7,000 e-journals 25 databases, and 4,400 multimedia materials. The Library shares materials with industrial-educational-research cooperation and is part of an intercollegiate data exchange program with approximately 150 other research and educational institutions throughout the nation.[15]
Smart Campus[edit]
POSTECH operates a Smart Campus where the scientific and technological information of the world is accessible anywhere on campus using different types of smart phones and mobile devices as well as laptops. In 2010, for the first time among Korean universities, POSTECH implemented a Desktop Cloud Service, providing a convenient and secure computing environment.[16]
On-Campus Dormitories and Family Housing[edit]
POSTECH offers students living on-campus in affordable dormitories and apartments for married graduate students. The student housing complex is composed of 23 five-story student dormitories, one 13-story undergraduate student dormitory, and 4 graduate student apartments. All POSTECH undergraduate students are required to live in one of the on-campus dormitories and many graduate students prefer to stay on campus, either in the student dormitories or in one of the four high-rise graduate student apartments.
Gymnasium and Sports Complex[edit]
POSTECH has a range of sports facilities, from a gymnasium equipped with basketball and badminton courts to POSPLEX, a sports center with a swimming pool, a fitness center and an indoor golf driving range, and outdoor sports fields for tennis, futsal, and soccer.
First Bilingual Campus in Korea[edit]
In March 2010, POSTECH declared the initiation of a bilingual campus. All notices and announcements are made in both English and Korean. Major official events (e.g., commencement) are run in both English and Korean. Most junior and senior level courses as well as all graduate courses are taught in English.
Academics[edit]
Admissions[edit]
POSTECH admits approximately 300 undergraduate students each year. POSTECH received 1,987 applicants for freshman admission and admitted 323 for the 2014 school year. POSTECH provides the highest educational investment and the most per-student scholarship support in Korea, allowing students from all economic backgrounds the opportunity to obtain a POSTECH education.[17]
Graduate Admissions[edit]
A growing number of international students attend POSTECH as it expands its recruiting efforts abroad. POSTECH offers full tuition fellowships to excellent graduate students from the following countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
All graduate students receive teaching assistant scholarships and the university provides the Tae-Joon Park Graduate Fellowship, which provides the highest level of scholarship (approximately 25 million South Korean won) to about 50 top graduate students each year. The POSCO Fellowship is available for students recommended by a POSTECH departmental committee and then selected by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation.[18] POSTECH offers a one-time settlement grant of approximately $2,800 USD to all incoming international graduate students during the first semester of enrollment.
Graduate students have the option of enrolling in the MS-Ph.D. integrated program. Under this program, students can work towards a Ph.D. degree after passing the Ph.D. qualifying exam without going through the MS program. Ph.D. applicants must have earned a master's degree before enrolling at POSTECH.
Undergraduate Education[edit]
Pursuit of Science Sculpture
Pursuit of Science Sculpture
The undergraduate research program provides students with opportunities to participate in research under the guidance and mentorship of professors. Scholarships are offered to encourage student participation in research. In several departments such as Chemistry and Mathematics, it is mandatory for all students to participate in the undergraduate research program.
Courses and activities on entrepreneurship are available, and efforts to strengthen the entrepreneurial spirit and start-up support are being developed including club activities, start-up prep group, training on patents, and leave of absence for creating a new venture
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