Yeungjin College
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Yeungjin College, also Yeungjin Junior College, is a private technical college located in Buk-gu, Daegu
, South Korea
. Information technology
is the principal academic focus; however, courses of study in other fields such as nursing and international tourism are also provided.
Yeungjin College also operates Yeungjin Cyber College, which since 2002 has offered its own two-year courses of study in fields such as computer science and multimedia, e-management, social welfare, and real estate. The cyber college employs seven full-time instructors and 41 adjunct faculty, teaching a virtual student body of about 800.
Yeungjin College's newest project is the Daegu English Village, located outside of Waegwan.
Yeungjin College also sends its freshmen students to Philippine universities to learn English so that they will be globally competitive and conversant in terms of conversation with other nationalities.
Daegu
Daegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
. Information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
is the principal academic focus; however, courses of study in other fields such as nursing and international tourism are also provided.
Yeungjin College also operates Yeungjin Cyber College, which since 2002 has offered its own two-year courses of study in fields such as computer science and multimedia, e-management, social welfare, and real estate. The cyber college employs seven full-time instructors and 41 adjunct faculty, teaching a virtual student body of about 800.
History
The school first opened its doors as Yeungjin Technical School on March 12, 1977. It became a college in 1985.Yeungjin College's newest project is the Daegu English Village, located outside of Waegwan.
Sister colleges
Yeungjin maintains sisterhood relationships with a total of 34 institutions around the world. A significant number of these are in the Philippines, as during the 1990s Yeungjin College was actively involved in developing IT programs at many Philippine universities. Others are located in the United States, Taiwan, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The first sisterhood ties established were with Ertong Technical College of Taiwan in 1981.See also
- List of Korea-related topics
- List of colleges and universities in South Korea
- Education in South KoreaEducation in South KoreaEducation in South Korea is viewed as being crucial for success and competition is consequently very heated and fierce. A centralized administration oversees the process for the education of children from kindergarten to the third and final year of high school. Mathematics, science, Korean, social...
Yeungjin College also sends its freshmen students to Philippine universities to learn English so that they will be globally competitive and conversant in terms of conversation with other nationalities.