2019 University Rankings by Industries based on surveys by directors of 1,105 companies
School of Materials Science and Engineering with optimal education program for fostering multi-discipline convergent human resources focusing on materials engineering
Department of Food Science and Technology manages student career with major tracks reflecting industry trends
[April 29, 2020]
YU (President Sur Gil-soo) was selected as the ‘best university’ by companies.
On April 28, the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education (hereinafter KCUE) announced the results of the ‘2019 university rankings by industries’. YU School of Materials Science and Engineering was selected as the best university for new materials (metallics/ceramics) and the Department of Food Science and Technology for food in this ranking. In particular, these two departments were selected as best universities for the second time since the 2015 rankings, once again verifying the excellence of its educational programs.
In this year’s rankings, a total of 88 departments from 62 universities participated in the three fields of △new materials (metals/ceramics), △food, and △media and a total of 30 departments from 25 universities received best rankings. In the new materials (metals/ceramics) sector, a total of 10 schools were selected including the YU School of Materials Science and Engineering, while 12 schools including the YU Department of Food Science and Technology were selected for the food sector, and eight schools for the media sector.
The YU School of Materials Science and Engineering operates an optimized education course for fostering convergent human resources with relevant engineering fields such as electronics and mechanics while focusing on materials engineering (metals). It received good evaluations for organizing an industry-academic advisory committee and consistently reflecting the demands of students, graduates, professors, and industries in its education programs. The Department of Food Science and Technology responded to industry demands by constructing a CRM (career roadmap) based on three different major tracks such as ▲food development/quality management, ▲food process/hygiene management, and ▲functional food/biotechnology, thus being judged to offer a differentiated educational program compared to other universities.
Executives and employees from 22 companies including POSCO and LG Display, as well as college ranking experts participated in this ranking to investigate educational course design, operation and outcomes based on industries. Surveys were carried out on graduates and current students to evaluate the operation of college education programs and surveys were also carried out on department heads of 1,105 companies to evaluate specialized and general work capacities.
YU was selected as the best university with its Department of Biotechnology in the bio-medicine field in the 2018 university rankings by industries, and up until now, it has been selected as the best university in the oil refinery and petrochemical (2017), architecture (2016, 2012), metals, food (2015), bio-medicine (2014), electronic semiconductors, and information communication (2013).
The university rankings by companies began in 2008 and it is a project to evaluate whether universities offer educational programs suitable for training human resources desired by industries, and to improve/operate educational courses based on this.
