Korea National University of Transportation

Korea National University of Transportation
한국교통대학교

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Established 2012 (2012)
President Dr. Kim Yeong Ho
(Hangul: 김영호)
Location Chungju, North Chungcheong, South Korea
36°58′11″N 127°52′17″E / 36.96976°N 127.87133°E / 36.96976; 127.87133Coordinates: 36°58′11″N 127°52′17″E / 36.96976°N 127.87133°E / 36.96976; 127.87133
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Korea National University of Transportation
Hangul 한국교통대학교
Hanja
Revised Romanization Han-guk Gyotong Daehakgyo
McCune–Reischauer Han'guk Kyot'ong Daehakkyo

The Korea National University of Transportation (KNUT) is a public, national university in Chungju City, North Chungcheong province, South Korea. The university was established in 2012 by merging Chungju National University and Korea National Railroad College. It enrolls about 200 graduate and 8,000 undergraduate students, and employs about 295 professors. The president of the University is Dr. Kim Yeong Ho.

Academics

The university's undergraduate and graduate offerings are provided through its seven colleges and one school:

College of Engineering

College of Construction Engineering and Design

College of Advanced Science and Technology

College of Humanities

College of Social Sciences

College of Health and life Sciences

College of International, Social and information Science

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

This school offers various general and introductory courses. It focuses on planning curricula to cultivate empowered students with global and creative minds. Students will mainly take courses such as on social and pure sciences, Korean language, foreign languages, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.Homepage

History

The school opened in 1962 as Chungju Technical Junior College (충주공업초급대학), a two-year school. It became Chungju Technical College, offering a five-year program, in 1965, and was nationalized in 1971. However, it was returned to the status of a two-year junior college in 1974. It was moved to its present-day location in 1982. Eleven years later in 1993, it became a four-year university, Chungju National University of Industry. In March 2006 it merged Cheongju National College of Science and Technology (Jeungpyeong campus now).

Sister schools

The university maintains domestic sisterhood relationships with numerous institutions, including Korea's 19 other universities of industry. In addition, it has international ties with 30 universities in 15 countries: the United States (University of Sacramento), Bangladesh (University of Development Alternative) China (Beijing University of Technology, Yanbian University, Yanbian University of Science and Technology, Xuzhou Institute of Technology and Shanghai University), the Philippines (De La Salle University-Manila), Japan (Oita University and Kyushu Institute of Technology), Kazakhstan (Al-Farabi University and Pavlodar National University), Uzbekistanthe (Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages), India (University of Delhi), Canada (Nova Scotia Agricultural College) United Kingdom (University of Westminster), and Australia (Deakin University).

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