'Grand Slam' in national projects of education, research and industry-academic cooperation
Selected as Hub University in 4 sector
[May 14, 2012]
The 'Audacious Challenge' of YU (president Lee, Hyo-soo) is becoming 'Audacious Change'.
The 'YU Global Initiative', which is a new vision being pursued since 2009, has swept the 13 national projects being pursued this year by the government in education, research and industry-academic cooperation, and thus achieving the 'Nation's only Grand Slam'.
Moreover, in the 'Interdisciplinary Design College', 'National Human Resource Development', 'Innovation of Engineering Education', and 'Global Exchange' support projects, Yeungnam University is designated as hubs for the Yeungnam region and the entire nation, thus firmly establishing its position as a 'Regional Hub University'.
Raised 223.8 billion won in national funding in 3 years
YU has shown great achievements in the past 3 years especially in terms of raising national funding. Since Lee, Hyo-soo became president of YU in February 2009, it has raised a total of 223.8 billion won in national funding. This is an amazing achievement such as about 6 billion won was raised every month.
Branding the 'Y-type Human Resources', Accelerating Globalization
In the past three years, the number of outstanding new students jumped by 2.2 times and in the 2012 academic year, 1,348 high school students around the nation applied for YU, showing the uplifted status of YU. This represents that the brightest minds across the nation are now showing more interest in Yeungnam University. The achievements of YU students were also remarkable and students were awarded in a total of 23 domestic and international contests last year. On average, 1.9 awards were received each month. The SCI theses which undergraduate students published in internationally renowned journals are over 20 papres.
Furthermore, large conglomerates also have began taking notice of YU. Large conglomerates have come to hold campus recruiting and job fairs at the YU campus in the March and April hiring seasons. In fact, in the two months since the start of the semester, over 40 large conglomerates visited the YU campus on almost a daily basis to hold campus recruiting and employment seminars. In result, the employment rate of YU graduates in large conglomerates was at 38%, proving that the 'Y-type Human Resources' Brand is successful and the qualitative competitiveness of employment also is enhanced.
The level of Globalization is also changing at alarming speeds. The number of sister universities increased from 120 as the end of 2008 to 207 as of current in 2012, for an increase of 87 universities. The diversity of nations from which international students at YU represent also grew from 18 to 42. This year, for the first time among Korean universities, a YU Alumni Association made up of students from Vietnam that graduated from YU was established, and it also established YU Alumni Association in China on May 20 and will also be opening YU Alumni Association in Indonesia in the near future as part of the Glocal Initiaive for speeding up the globalization.
YU also established the 'GGECN' (Global Green Energy Cluster Network), which is a cooperative network for global leaders in the green energy sector. Furthermore, it opened the 'Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul' for exporting models for Korean-type economic development and policy leaderships, and constructed the 'B.E.S.T Campus' in order to prepare for its leap into becoming a GIU (Glocal Initiative University).
