Seoul National University

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**Seoul National University**

Motto	Veritas lux mea (Latin: The truth is my light.)
Established	1946
Type	National
President	Lee Jang-Moo
Faculty	1,900
Staff	N/A
Students	30,869
Undergraduates	20,304^[1]
Postgraduates	10,565^[2]
Doctoral students	N/A
Professional students	N/A
Location	Seoul, South Korea
Campus	Urban
Athletics	N/A
Colors	N/A
Mascot	N/A
Fight song	N/A
Affiliations	N/A
Website	www.snu.ac.kr

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Seoul National University (SNU) is one of South Korea's national universities, whose main campus is located in Seoul, South Korea. The university is the most prestigious university in all of Korea. This university's official name in Korean used to be Gungnip Seoul Daehakgyo (국립서울대학교 or 국립 서울대학교) until the end of 1949, but is now simply Seoul Daehakgyo (서울대학교; literally, "Seoul University").

1 History
2 Reputation
3 Undergraduate colleges
4 Graduate schools
5 Athletics
6 Location
7 Notable alumni
8 Notes
9 References and further reading
10 See also
11 External links

[edit] History

Seoul National University was founded on August 22, 1946 by merging 10 institutions of higher education around Seoul area, pursuant to "The law concerning the foundation of Seoul National University" (국립서울대학교 설립에 관한 법령).

The schools merged were:

Gyeongseong University (경성대학교)
Gyeongseong Law College (경성법학전문학교)
Gyeongseong Industrial College (경성공업전문학교)
Gyeongseong Mining College (경성광산전문학교)
Gyeongseong Medical College (경성의학전문학교)
Suwon Agriculture College (수원농림전문학교)
Gyeongseong Business College (경성경제전문학교)
Gyeongseong Dentistry College (경성치과의학전문학교)
Gyeongseong Education College (경성사범학교)
Gyeongseong Women Education College (경성여자사범학교)

The first president was Harry B. Ansted.

The college of law was founded by merging the law department of Gyeongseong University with Gyeongseong Law College (경성법학전문학교).

The university's second president was Lee Chunho(이춘호, 李春昊), who served from October 1947.

The university absorbed Seoul College of Pharmacy (서울약학대학) in September, 1950, as the College of Pharmacy. This had previously been a private institution. <ref>연혁. SNU College of Pharmacy website (in English). Retrieved on July 24, 2005.</ref>

During the Korean War, the university was temporarily merged with other universities in South Korea at Busan.

Originally, the main campus (which embraced College of Letters and Science and College of Law) was located on Daehangno (University Street) in Jongno-gu District. Most parts of the university relocated to a new campus in Gwanak-gu in 1975. Part of the former main campus in Jongno-gu District is still used by the College of Medicine, College of Dentistry and Collge of Nursing and is now called the Yeongon Campus.

[edit] Reputation

Based upon its application and acceptance rates, Seoul National University is considered the most prestigious university in South Korea. From 1981 to 1987, more than 80% of the top 0.5% scorers in the annual government-administered scholastic achievement test applied only to SNU, many of them unsuccessfully. The fraction of non-SNU applicants among the top 0.1% scorers was below 5%. No comparable data are available for direct comparison between SNU and non-SNU applicants after 1988, due to an extensive change in South Korea's college entrance system.

SNU graduates dominate South Korea's academia, government, politics and business. Similar to University of Tokyo graduates in Japan, the concentration of SNU graduates in legal, official, and political circles is particularly high. Two-thirds of South Korean judges are SNU graduates, although the country's judicial appointment system is based solely on open competitive examinations. ^{[citation needed]} In government, slighly more than half of South Korea's elite career foreign service corps, recruited on the basis of a competitive higher diplomatic service exam, are from SNU. Similarly, among the high-ranking government officials who got recruited an equally competitive higher civil service exam, SNU graduates take up more than 40 percent. On the political side, four out of seven presidential candidates in 2002 were SNU graduates. The school is also often criticized by many South Koreans for being elitist and bureaucratic.

It is also one of the so-called "SKY" schools in South Korea. The acronym collectively refers to Seoul National University, Korea University and Yonsei University, three of the country's best-known universities.

The Times Higher World University Rankings 2006 lists SNU at No. 63. [3].

[edit] Undergraduate colleges

College of Humanities
College of Social Sciences
College of Natural Sciences
College of Nursing
College of Business Administration
College of Engineering
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Fine Arts
College of Law
College of Education
College of Human Ecology
College of Veterinary Medicine
College of Pharmacy
College of Music
College of Medicine
College of Dentistry

[edit] Graduate schools

Graduate School (General)
Graduate School of Medicine
Graduate School of Dentistry
Graduate School of Business Administration
Graduate School of Public Administration
Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Graduate School of Public Health
Graduate School of International Studies

[edit] Athletics

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Enccer: College of Engineering soccer team (official web site)

[edit] Location

Image:SNU main gate.jpg

Gwanak Campus, the main campus, is located on the southern part of Seoul. It is served by its own station on Line 2 (the Green Line) of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway.
Yeongeon Campus (the medical campus), is located in Daehangno(University Street), downtown Seoul.
Suwon Campus (the agricultural campus), also called Sangrok Campus(Evergreen Campus) used to be located in Suwon, about 40 km south of Seoul. The agricultural campus moved to Gwanak 2004 autumn, while some experimenting facilities still remain in Suwon.