Study at ICU (Information and
Communications University) Korea
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ICU (Information and
Communications University) is the only IT-specialized university in
Korea, jointly founded in 1997 by the Korean Ministry of Information and
Communication, ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute)--Korea¡¯s largest national IT research institute--, and IT
industrial bodies. We have two schools of engineering and IT business,
both of which focus on IT. Despite its short history, ICU has
established itself as Korea's premier higher education institution in
the IT field, contributing to the advancement of Korea's IT industry as
well as the education of global IT manpower. Now ICU is aiming to become
one of the world's best IT institutions. ICU has been leading the globalization of Korean universities by
building international partnerships with nearly 90 universities and
research institutes in over 30 countries, including Massachusetts
Institute of Technology(MIT), Carnegie Mellon University(CMU) in the US
and Munich University of Technology in Germany. In October 2006, ICU
successfully hosted the International Forum for University Presidents on
ICT Education (IFUP-ICT 2006). At the moment, ICU is planning to
establish a branch campus in Lithuania, Korea's first campus abroad, at
the request of the Lithuanian government, and preparing to provide
real-time cyber classes for universities in Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Turkey, and Yemen. As the only IT research university in Korea, one of the world's IT
powerhouses, ICU is also in vanguard of IT research and development. The
amount of research funds per faculty member is the highest among the
Korean universities. It has the most number of national research centers
among small Korean universities and is the only Korean university that
runs joint research centers with Samsung Electronics and Korea Telecom
(KT), Korea's most prominent IT companies. Furthermore, ICU houses the
world's 7th and Korea's only Auto-ID Lab, the internationally acclaimed
RFID/USN (Radio Frequency Identification/Ubiquitous Sensor Networks)
research network headquartered at MIT. ICU continually develops and implements innovative and practical
education approaches to produce future global IT leaders. We teach all
the major courses in English, an unprecedented case among Korean
universities, and include internships as part of the curricula. We also
require students to take interdisciplinary courses to develop broad and
creative knowledge and abilities immediately applicable to the
real-world situations. In addition, from March 2007, ICU offers the
Global MBA program, the world's first IT MBA program with an integrated
curriculum of IT engineering and management. Our creative and globalized approaches to IT education and research have
drawn highly talented domestic and international students. Our
undergraduate students are selected from the top 1% of Korean SAT
examinees and 60% of the students are from Korea's specialized high
schools such as Science High School. 20% of our graduate student
population is foreign nationals, contributing a great deal to the growth
of ICU in its academic and research capacity. I have great confidence that ICU will achieve its status as a
world-class IT center for education and research in the near future. I
would like to invite you to become a part of this great development
whether as an active participant, supporter or as an observer. Unna Huh, Ph.D. President of ICU
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