Sungshin Women's University
| 성신여자대학교 | |
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| Motto | Sincerity, Intelligence, Independence |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1936 |
| President | Shim Hwa-jin, Ph.D. |
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Administrative staff
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682 |
| Students | 13,000 |
| Location | Seongbuk, Seoul, South Korea |
| Campus |
Urban 123,395 m² |
| Website | http://www.sungshin.ac.kr/ |
| Sungshin Women's University | |
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| Revised Romanization | Seongsin Yeoja Daehakgyo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏngsin Yŏja Taehakkyo |
Sungshin Women’s University (Korean: 성신여자대학교) is a private women’s university located in Seoul, South Korea. It was founded in 1936 by Dr. Sook-Chong Lee. During the 1960s and 70s, Sungshin was well known as a prestigious Teachers College in South Korea. Then, in the 1980s, the college was promoted to the status of a comprehensive university. Today, the university comprises ten colleges and five graduate schools with total enrollment of about 12,000 students. In 2006, the university rebuilt the Sungshin Hall to mark the university's 70th anniversary. Also, Sungshin Women's University has succeeded to annex the nursing college of a national hospital, the first event of its kind to happen in South Korea.
Sungshin Women’s University comprises ten colleges (45 departments) and five graduate schools.
Admission to Sungshin Women's University is very competitive, with an acceptance rate of less than 5%. Most of the students who enroll at Sungshin are ranked in the top 10% of their graduating class in high school. Also, students are admitted by their specified major instead of into a general freshman pool. Some of the most popular majors offered at Sungshin are psychology, nursing and consumer science & living culture.
Sungshin Women’s University features newly renovated lecture halls and internal facilities. The campus is equipped with diverse student facilities: bookstore, stationery store, bank, post office, and cafeteria. Also, students are offered convenient one-stop services.
Sungshin has accomplished something all other universities hope to accomplish: the establishment of a second campus in Seoul. The 54,200㎡ Woonjung Green Campus is within 5 kilometers of the Soojung Campus and makes Sungshin the only university with two campuses in Seoul.
The Woonjung Green Campus, with three college buildings and one shared facilities building being surrounded by a vast green area, is designed as an eco-friendly campus with global and futuristic vision. It opened in March 2010 and houses four colleges: College of Natural Sciences, College of Human Ecology, College of Nursing, and College of Convergence Culture and Arts. Woonjung Green Campus, with its organic design to facilitate research experiments and researcher-learner interactions, will brighten Sungshin's future as the training grounds for expert talents.
Woonjung Green campus is a new leap forward for Sungshin Women's University. It will be used as a place of nurturing women with talents demanded in the information society, as a forum for creative education and research, as driving force to build competitive edge for the new Specialization Program, and as foundation for a leap toward becoming one of the world's best private universities. In 2010, Woonjung Campus succeeded the dreams and hopes of the Sungshin community that began in 1936 at the Donam (Soojung) Campus and expands them.
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