Sending Universities

The first private university established in modern Korea, Kookmin University continues its mission to create the competent professionals that industry and society needs. Now one of the top 20 universities in the country, it stays true to its four founding principles of humanism, nationalism, culturalism, and industrialism. Its lush surroundings of Bukhansan National Park belie its forward-thinking status as a Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning-named software-oriented university, with an award-winning Space and Environment Design Lab and a Silicon Valley Internship program to tempt Korea's top talent. KU has strong international links, with exchange programs, information shares, and joint research arrangements.

Korea Aerospace University is a private university located in Hwajeon-dong, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. As an educational institution was needed to pioneer the civil aviation field during the Korean War, it started as a special aviation department of a transportation high school under the Ministry of Transportation of the Republic of Korea in 1952, and was reorganized as Korea Aerospace University in 1968. Korea Aerospace University is a university specialized in the aerospace field. The university is training aerospace experts to work in government agencies.

Korea National University of Cultural Heritage was established in 2000 with the founding philosophy of ‘creating a culture of national self-reliance’. Introducing the Korea National University of Cultural Heritage, which is the only and best university in Korea that inherits and develops traditional culture and aims to become a world-class university related to cultural heritage.

The nation's leading private university, Korea University also stands among the top 100 universities worldwide in 22 of the 48 subject areas evaluated by QS World Ranking. KU courses range from liberal arts and sciences to professional fields of law, medicine, and business administration. Established in 1905, the globally-focused, research-driven KU is one of the nation's older and most prominent institutions of higher education. Following its tenets of liberty, justice, and truth, it continues to pioneer and innovate, challenging the norm of education and pushing the boundaries of research, internationally. Through its strong international relationships, it has exciting exchange programs and is part of Universitas 21, a collaboration of world-class universities.

Kwangwoon University was founded in 1934 by Dr. Cho Kwangwoon who foresaw the necessity of wireless communication and electronic engineering education as the core of the future of Korea. Since its foundation, Kwangwoon's talented graduates have actively engaged in various fields of society, not to mention the electronic industry. As a result, the alumni of Kwangwoon University are currently recognized for their outstanding talents at home and abroad. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, individuals and their society are facing the demands of irreversible change. In response, Kwangwoon University will consistently pursue a new paradigm that focuses on the education and research of convergence in every field to foster talents for the new era. We will make our utmost efforts to construct an era of intelligence-based hyper convergence beyond convergence.

Part of one of Japan's most prestigious private schools, Kwansei Gakuin University's School of International Studies creates multi-skilled world citizens who can understand and analyze international affairs.
During their four years at SIS, students learn languages to an advanced level and examine Japan and the world through an individually crafted degree program that reflects their interests in either North American or Asian Studies. Within these two courses, they choose subjects from three disciplines: cultures and languages, societies and politics, and economics and management. Language education in small-group exercise-based classes is paramount, with SIS offering specialized courses in English, and other classes and seminars in Japanese or English.

An holistic education facility that takes students from high school to graduate school, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies is guided by its founding ideals of achieving "World Peace through Languages." By teaching eight languages and their associated cultures, KUFS develops individuals who appreciate that lifelong learning will deliver them to the expert knowledge they need to positively influence international society. KUFS graduate schools focus on educational research in both linguistics and intercultural communication, culture, and customs. And its Japanese Studies Center for International Students helps foreign students begin or deepen their Japanese skills and knowledge as they work on enriching hands-on projects with Japanese students, or - for those with greater proficiency - by participating in other KUFS courses.