Sejong University
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| motto | Creativitas Servitium |
| founding | 1940 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Seoul |
| country | South Korea |
| management | Shin Gu |
| Students | 16,165 (2011) |
| Employee | 1,230 (2010) |
| including professors | 360 (2010) |
| Website | www.sejong.ac.kr |
The Sejong University is a private university in the South Korean capital Seoul . It was founded in 1940 as Gyeongseong Inmun Hagwon (Gyeongseong Humanities Institute), and lectures have been held since 1948. In 1954 the university changed its name to Sudo Yeoja Sabeom Daehak (Sudo Pedagogical Women's College). Since 1979 men have also been accepted as students. In the same year, the university changed its name to the current form, named after Sejong the Great , the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty , who is believed to be the father of the Korean Hangul alphabet . In 1987 the university changed its status to a full university under the Korean Higher Education Act. The campus is located in Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, an eastern part of Seoul.
Colleges
The university is divided into the following colleges :
- College of Liberal Arts
- Korean language and literature
- English language and literature
- Japanese language and literature
- history
- pedagogy
- Asian studies
- College of Social Sciences
- economy and trade
- Public administration
- Communication science
- Sinology
- College of Business Administration
- College of Hospitality and Tourism Management
- Hospitality management
- Culinary and Food Service Management
- College of Natural Sciences
- mathematics
- Applied Mathematics
- physics
- Astronomy and space travel
- chemistry
- Environment and energy
- College of Food Science and Biotechnology
- biotechnology
- nutritional science
- Molecular biology
- College of Electronics and Information Engineering
- electronics
- Information and Communication Engineering
- Optical engineering
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Digital Contents
- College of Engineering
- Supply technology
- architecture
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Geographic information engineering
- Energy and Mineral Resource Engineering
- Mechanical engineering
- Aerospace engineering
- Advanced Materials Engineering
- Nanoscience Technology
- College of Arts and Physical Education
- art
- Industrial design
- Fashion design
- music
- Physical education
- dance
- Cartoon and animation
- Film studies
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information service for higher education in South Korea ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the university ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 8, 2011.
Coordinates: 37 ° 33 ′ 3 ″ N , 127 ° 4 ′ 26 ″ E