Korea National Open University
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| Korea National Open University | |
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| Established: | 1972 |
| Type: | National (Public) |
| President: | Chang, Shi-Won |
| Students: | 210,578 |
| Undergraduates: | 210,578 |
| Location: | (Various), South Korea |
| Campus: | Urban, regional campus buildings are located various sites. |
| Colors: | Blue |
| Website: | knou.ac.kr |
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Korea National Open University (KNOU) is a national open university in South Korea.
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[edit] History
KNOU was founded in 1972 as a branch of Seoul National University. It began by offering a two-year junior college program to 12,000 students and now has over 200,000 full-time, degree-seeking students for four-year university programs and some part-time students for non-degree, lifelong education programs. It also offers online graduate programs for several major areas.
[edit] Education
The university includes four colleges:
- College of Libery Art
- College of Social Science
- College of Natural Science
- College of Education
It also includes [nine graduate schools:]http://grad.knou.ac.kr/eng/home/HGEHMainDetail.htm
- Department of Practical English
- Department of Public Administration
- Department of Management
- Department of Home Economics
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Nursing
- Department of Lifelong Education
- Department of Early Childhood Education
- Department of e-Learning
[edit] Campus
The university has campuses in every major city of South Korea. Cities which have KNOU campuses are: Seoul, Daejeon, Busan, Daegu, Inchon, Kwangju, Kyunggi, Kangwon, Chungpuk, Jonpuk, Kyungnam, Cheju.
[edit] See also
- List of Korea-related topics
- List of colleges and universities in South Korea
- Education in South Korea
