Seoul National University of Science and Technology


Seoul National University of Science and Technology is a national university located in Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea.
Seoul National University of Science and Technology originated from Royal Engineering Research Center established in 1906 by Emperor Gojong's Royal Decree. Later the school was re-organized as Gyeongseong Public Industrial School, Gyeonggi Technical College, and Seoul National University of Technology before it was finally reborn as Seoul National University of Science and Technology in September 2010 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its foundation. The institution is also known as 'Seoultech'.
Today Seoultech is a large and general university housing six colleges, 23 departments, seven graduate schools and a student enrolment of 11,500 people in a spacious campus of 508,690 square meters. This is the fifth-largest campus in the universities of Seoul. The campus, formerly occupied by the colleges of engineering of Seoul National University, is in Nowon-gu in the northern part of Seoul. Seoul National University of Science and Technology was ranked second in South Korea and 23rd in Asia in field of focused university in the 2015 by Quacquarelli Symonds
and ranked 15th in South Korea in the field of Science and Engineering in 2015 by Korea Economic Daily.

Departments

College of Engineering
College of Information and Communication Engineering
College of Energy and Biotechnology
College of Art and Design
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
College of Business and Technology
There are also three professional graduate schools and three special graduate schools within the university. Aside from these, there are a number of specialist research institutes.
Graduate school
Department of Mechanical Design and Robot Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Safety Engineering
Department of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering
Department of Data Science
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Automotive Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Architectural
Department of Electrical and Information Engineering
Department of Electronic Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Media IT Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Environmental Engineering
Department of Food Science and Technology
Convergence Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials
Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials
Department of Fine Chemistry
Department of Optometry
Department of Industrial Design
Department of Visual Design
Department of Ceramic Art
Department of Metal Arts & Design
Department of Fine Arts
Department of Sports Science
Department of Business Administration
Department of English Language and Literature
Department of Creative Writing
Professional Graduate School
Department of Railway Management & Policy
Department of Railway Construction
Department of Electric & Signaling Engineering
Department of Rolling Stock System
Department of Railway System
Department of Public Policy
Department of Industrial & Information Systems
Department of Broadcasting and Communication Policy
Department of Digital & Cultural Policy
Department of New Energy Engineering
Department of Environmental Energy Engineering
Department of Energy System Engineering
Department of Energy Safety Engineering
Department of Energy Policy
Nano IT Fusion Program
Broadcasting Communication Fusion Program
IT Design Fusion Program
Special graduate schools
Convergence Program of Healthcare & Biomedical Engineering
Disaster Safety & Fire Protection Program
Management of Technology Program
Global Project Management Program
Manufacturing Technology Convergence Program
Department of Food Science and Technology
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Architectural Design
Department of Metal Art & Design
Department of Housing Environment and Service Technology
Department of Housing Construction Engineering
Department of Housing Planning and Design
Department of Housing Management
Department of Housing Development and Management

Library

The library at Seoul National University of Science and Technology has been operational since the foundation of Eoeudong Public Vocational Continuing School in April 1910. Today, the Library has 600,987 volumes, 11,928 e-books, 23,259 audiovisual materials, and 446 periodicals and academic journals published domestically and abroad.
The Central Library building, completed at the end of 2004, consists of three stories with an area of 9,281 m2. The first floor houses the library office, seminar rooms, Western archive, and information processing center. The second floor is occupied with Eastern archives and references, periodicals, and an academic journal room. The third floor houses a multimedia room, group study room, and reading room. The annex to Central Library, remodelled in 2011, is a building with an area of 4,896.25 m2 that is equipped with a reference room, reference room for western books, room for study groups, notebook computer reading room and general reading room. The library has collected academic research works of the professors and the students for the past 100 years.

Other support facilities

Aside from the library there is also an Information and Computer Center; a Press and Broadcasting Center; a General Laboratory Building; a Business Incubation Center; an Educational Equipment Management & Technical Support Center; and an International Office/ Centre for International Exchange. Finally, there is an Institute for Language Education and Research staffed by twenty native-speaking English instructors.

Scholarships

About half of the student body benefit from a scholarship program which offers education at a comparatively low cost. In 2015, about 6,000 of 11,500 students benefited from scholarship. The school's current tuition only amounts to 40% of an average private university's costs and 80% of tuition fees charged by other national universities. In 2014, 47% of tuition was reused for scholarships. Seoultech also has a number of funded international cooperation programs, and two joint degree programs with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom.

The Institute for Language Education and Research

The Institute for Language Education and Research provides a variety of language programs to serve the University's English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese learning needs. There are currently 26 full-time faculty positions. The ILER has a dedicated language center building which houses all needed facilities: professors' offices, administration offices, conference hall, conversation classrooms with round tables, etc. The ILER is a developing PLC, focused on modernizing curriculum, expanding opportunities for research and publication, and fostering a spirit of intercultural exchange.

Symbols

In March 2014, the University's Public Relations Office held its first Symbolic Committee to determine its symbolism. Following the first questionnaire for teachers and faculty members in April 2013, we conducted a second questionnaire involving 12,807 undergraduate and graduate students in June 2013 in order to enact the symbol of university. The second questionnaire for undergraduate and graduate students who answered 91% of the total enrollment was Daesanbang, Sycamore, and Symbolic Animals. Haitai won the most votes.

Rankings

In 2018, Times Higher Education ranked the university within the 801–1000 band globally.

History