Gwangju University is now acknowledged as the most prestigious private academy in the Honam area. It offers 49 master's and doctoral courses of the three graduate schools (including the Social Welfare Graduate School starting in March of 2002), and 58 undergraduate courses of 5 divisions and five departments. Significantly, the dormitory, completed in 2000, outstands with the best facilities in the nation.
As appointed through the fair and transparent employment procedures, Gwangju University faculty members are all highly qualified scholars who are admired for their academic achievement and contribution to the community.
A university is a birthplace of innovation and creation for the new era. This is Gwangju University thinking, languishing, and carrying its philosophy into action. The University is proud of its energy and spirits, taking a leading role in a new paradigm that will create jobs and businesses.
Gwangju University has been producing many talented men inheriting the philosophy of the founder Dr. In Gon, Kim, since its foundation in 1980.
Gwangju University began as Gwangju Gyeongsang Junior College and was upgraded to a University producing 70,000 university men. The University has established itself as one of the prestigious leading private universities representing the areas.
With the running of six colleges, custom curriculums, and three graduate schools, the University has played a crucial role in enhancing education's prestige. The momentum of being one of the most prestigious leading private universities originated from honest and transparent management.
Receiving a high-quality education is one of the students' privileges and rights. Gwangju University never neglects its responsibilities to the students. The University is proud of its fair recruitment of professors. Good professors, Good education. It is the value Gwangju University has been cherishing.
Gwangju University is adapting to a changing and competitive world with great success. Of course, changes are taking place everywhere. Gwangju University is leveraging such changes into opportunities and creating a new identity for itself to serve students and their futures.
Gwangju University offers courses for students and community members so that they can prepare for future careers, develop current occupations, or forge new life paths. We enable students to become competitive experts armed with not only advanced theories but also practical skills.
The University's bold response to changing times has been selected for three consecutive years to manage special projects funded by more than 20 national institutions. And has been ranked second among private universities in the area for three consecutive years. Facing the challenges of the future head-on, Gwangju University's potential is unlimited.
The secret of this potential is the support for and hard work is done by the University's dedicated teachers and administrators. Our spacious and pleasant school dormitory accommodates 2,000 students. Home Library offers comfortable learning facilities and thousands of books. It is the kind of University found in a dream that will lead students and the community to a brighter future. What are the most urgent needs for students? Gwangju University has been doing its best to help students find jobs and start businesses.
We will keep going further and do our best to make our school home of inspirational education for the new millennium. For this, all of my insights and wisdom will be devoted to the school as before.
Gwangju University takes great and sincere responsibility for the welfare and learning of students from acceptance to graduation. The University maintains relationships with over 700 businesses and connects students with corporations in many fields, such as industry, life-care, design, and IT. Gwangju University is affiliated with over 60 prestigious universities worldwide and administers exchange programs and language learning curriculums to support international networks of education. The University helps students achieve their goals and make their dreams come true for a better world.
Gwangju University's educational aim is to raise students with creative capability, diligence and perseverance, and democratic intelligence. Gwangju University will contribute to the nation and the world through fostering creative and glocally-talented students pioneering the local community innovation. Gwangju University will reestablish its guiding role as a university providing sustainable development with its best education services, which will help produce great talents to overcome any future challenges.
