Hanyang University was established in 1939 by Lyun-Joon Kim, who desired greatly for the advancement of the country through technology education. In 1948, it was the first private university that actually developed by the engineering department and in 1959, it expanded into different ranges. In addition, in 1979, Hanyang University built their second campus in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, one of the biggest industrial complexes in our country. As of 2008, Hanyang University has 2 campuses with 34,000 students in all from both college and graduate school. It is also operating a hospital that has a large scale of having approximately 1,400 sickbeds. This in all shows how big the university is and what kind of important role it play in our country.
After Hanyang University was established, for 70 years, it has been concentrating its effort in the education theory of fostering talented students by following the idea of ?trying to become a university that can be of help to the society through practical method of study.? As a result, between the 70s and the 80s, Hanyang University was acknowledged for discharging excellent students who have contributed to the country?s phenomenal change in both the industrial area and modern age.
Hanyang University was very proud of starting out in the area engineering, but now it is even more proud of the reputation that it carries as it slowly expanded the education range to medical, humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and much more. Thus, through the program of fostering a global leader, all of this accomplishment continues even to this very day and it is being recognized as one of the biggest promising universities that can actually develop and make a difference.
Hanyang University was built on the spirit of Love in Truth, and in Deed. Its purpose was to educate the students to understand what love is and how they can act upon it through hard work, honesty, politeness, and community service. It is not only about trying to improve only one?s education, but by contributing to the local community and the country, a person will able to grow love for humanities in all.
Hanyang University?s technology patriotism of philosophy that serves as a background to the school?s establishment is ?Practical Method of Study? which has been in succession in the education tradition for a very long time. For this reason and due to the society?s demand, the school has developed and stabilized itself as a group culture that can rapidly satisfy the needs of the society through education and research. Consequently, it has been deemed to be the university that has contributed the most to our country?s modern age and industrialism.
Since Ansan campus is very close to the industrial complex, it has taken advantage of that geographical attribute by opening up the biggest Center for Business Incubation as well as a Technopark. Moreover, it is trying to construct the biggest ERICA cluster in our country so that it can focus on placing corporations and government research centers within the campus.
Currently, Hanyang University has tied its knot with 33 countries and 243 universities from all over the world and it is actively participating in diverse international collaboration. While exchanging professors and students from foreign universities so that they can used to different cultures and its education, at the same time, Hanyang University is trying to spread our prosecution of studies and science technology all over the world. It is believed that by investing in having many excellent exchanged students with our school, we can increase our global reputation.
Hanyang University is allowing admission of exchanged students from leading universities all over the world and with the Hanyang International Scholarship policy; it is also inviting students by offering a full scholarship. - 1,400 students sent abroad yearly (Plans to send out 2,000 students abroad by the year 2010) - Invites 3,100 foreign students yearly (Plans to send invite 4,000 students by the year 2010)
After the school was established in 1939, Hanyang University has discharged around 22,000 graduate students. This shows that the school has a network that is working in coordination. Furthermore, instead of trying to be of help to our society only, Hanyang University is trying to assist countries internationally and that is why they are trying to foster leaders who will be able to perform such operations with pride and dignity. The results of Hanyang global leaders are as follows. - 2007- Ranked 2nd nationally for the 30th newly appointed board of staff in - 2007- Ranked 3rd nationally for the high ranked judicial officer that are graduates of Hanyang University (higher than director judge rank) - 2007- Ranked 4th in National Talented Person DB according to universities - 2007- Ranked 4th nationally for top 100 corporate CEOs - 2006- Ranked 2nd nationally for KOSDAQ CEO - 2006- Ranked 5th nationally for discharging high ranked top officers in government
By receiving full support for special state of the art research area, Hanyang University is developing into a school that concentrates on science technology research. These efforts were proved by having improved research centers and thesis written by government and corporations. - 1997- Opened the biggest Center for Business Incubation in our country - 2003- Opened the biggest Technopark in our country - 2004- Opened Korea Testing Laboratory Ansan Center - 2006- Completed constructing Hanyang University?s LG Micron/Innotek research center - 2007- Opened Korea Institute of Industrial Technology Ansan Research Center - 2007- Opened Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute Electric Research Center - 2008- Opened Fusion Tech Center - 2006- Ranked 5th nationally out of Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology?s university research progress by publishing 1,772 theses. - 2006- Ranked 194 in the world considering to have published 1,273 thesis on Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology SCI - 2006- Research budget was ranked 4th nationally with 1,149 hundred billion won - 2007- Research budget was 1,212 hundred billion won - Total number of patent application is 1,371 - 2007- Number of patent application is 522, patent registration is 235 - 2007- Technology transfer results ranked 4th nationally with 7.6 hundred million won.
