Pohang University of Science and Technology
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| Motto | 성실, 창의, 진취 |
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Motto in English
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Integrity, Creativity, and Aspiration |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1986 |
| President | Doh-Yeon Kim |
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Academic staff
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403 (April 2015) |
| Undergraduates | 1,413 (April 2015) |
| Postgraduates | 2,142 (April 2015) |
| Location | Pohang, Gyeongbuk Province, South Korea |
| Campus | Urban |
| Mascot | Poscat (Unofficial) |
| Website | postech |
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| Pohang University of Science and Technology | |
| Hangul | 포항공과대학교 or 포스텍 |
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| Hanja | 浦項工科大學校 |
| University rankings | |
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| Global | |
| Times | 116 |
| Asia | |
| Times | 11 |
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, South Korea dedicated to research and education in science and technology.
In 2012-2014, the Times Higher Education ranked POSTECH 1st in its "100 Under 50 Young Universities" rankings.
POSTECH was established in 1986 in Pohang, Korea by POSCO, one of the world's leading steel companies, for the purpose of providing advanced education for budding engineers and laying the groundwork for future technological development.
The founder of POSCO and the founding chairman of POSTECH, Park Tae-joon realized the need for Korea to educate their youth in science and technology to ensure Korea's position in the high technology arena. Park wanted to use the California Institute of Technology as a model for POSTECH and visited the university on a business trip to Los Angeles in 1985. He noted characteristics of CALTECH and requested to the POSTECH founding team to establish a contemporary research university that had: a low student-faculty ratio, a greater proportion of graduate students to undergraduates, a low net education cost, student on-campus housing, and a high-quality campus environment. These features represented a drastic departure from the Korean universities of the 1980s.
POSCO organized a task force on February 21, 1984 made up of POSCO employees selected by the company. Construction work began on August 17, 1985. On May 4, 1986, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited POSTECH and donated an Inmos transputer, one of the leading edge computer parts at the time. The first matriculation ceremony was held on March 5, 1987. A group of 249 freshman were selected from the top one percent of all graduating seniors in Korea to be taught by an international faculty recruited by POSTECH founding president Hogil Kim and POSTECH task force head manager Dai Kong Lee. The first degree awarding ceremony was on February 20, 1991. Diplomas were awarded to 146 graduating seniors, 123 (84%) of whom went on to pursue graduate studies. The remaining 23 graduates were employed by the nation's major corporations including POSCO, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai.
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