Yonsei University

    Yonsei University is a clandestine research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of Korea's three "SKY" universities, considered the most esteemed in the country, along with the other associates being Seoul National University and Korea University. Yonsei was founded in 1885 and is one of the aged universities in South Korea. The student organization consists of 38,725 students under which 26,731 are undergraduate students, 11,994 are graduate students. There are 4,518  faculty members, 6,788 staff and 257,931 alumni. Today, Yonsei functions its main campus in Seoul and has widespread programs in Korean and English.

History

    The university was previously founded in January, 1957 through the union of Severance Union Medical College and Yonhi College. This was as a result of a continued bilateral cooperation between the colleges that started in the 1920s. The educational institutions were new to Korea at the time of their commencement. Yonhi College was one of the foremost modern colleges, established originally as Chosun Christian College in March 1915. Separation has its roots in the first modern medical center in Korea, Gwanghyewon, established in April, 1885. As a honor, the name 'Yonsei' was derived from the first syllables of the names of its two parent educational institutions,   "Yon" from Yonhi College and 'Sei' from 'Seifrom Severance Union Medical College. The Yonsei University Medical School dated April 10, 1885, when the earliest modern hospital to carry out western medicine in Korea, Gwanghyewon, was founded.

    The hospital was established by Horace Newton Allen, the American protestant disciple selected to Korea by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.  The hospital was renamed Jeijungwon (House of Universal Helpfulness) on April 26. As difficulties appeared there, the Church allotted Oliver R. Avison to run Jejungwon on July 16, 1893. at first, Gwanghyewon was sponsored by the Korean government, while the medical staff was given by the Church. However, by 1894 when the First Sino-Japanese War and Gabo reforms took place, the government was unable to provide its financial support and thus, administration of Jejungwon came fully under the Church. In 1899, Avison went back to the U.S. and attended a conference of missionaries in New York where he detailed on the medical project in Korea. Louis Severance, a businessman and philanthropist from Cleveland, Ohio, was there and deeply stimulated. He later financed for the most of the portion of the construction cost of new buildings for the medical facility. Jejungwon was renamed Severance Hospital on his behalf.

    In 1957, Severance Medical College and Hospital and Yonhi University combined to form Yonsei University.

Academics Reputation 

    Yonsei is one of Korea's three "SKY" universities. These are the most prominent in the country, Seoul National University and Korea University being the other members. Admission is extremely aggressive. Inside Korea, admission to a SKY university is widely considered as determining one's career and social status.

World rankings

    In 2012, Yonsei University was graded 112th on the whole, 81st in Arts and Humanities, 12th in Modern Languages and 69th in Management and Social Sciences in the world by QS World University Rankings. The 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities placed Yonsei University at the 23–42 range in Asia/Pacific region and 3rd in South Korea. Yonsei was graded 96th in the world according to an SCI paper circulated in 2007. Yonsei is one of the four Korean universities graded in all 3 ARWU World University Ranking, QS World University Rankings, and The Times World University Ranking in 2010-13, along with Seoul National University, KAIST, and POSTECH . Yonsei University was graded 16th in Asia in 2012 and continues to rise quickly in global rank: 112 in the world in 2012; 129 in 2011; 142 in 2010; 151 in 2009; 203 in 2008; and ranked globally 236 in 2007 by QS World University Rankings. Yonsei was graded the 1st Korean university to be in the Economist '​s 2011 Top 100 Full-time MBAs (#76); US News, 2011 World's Best Universities: Asia #18; and UK Financial Times '​ 2011 Top 100 EMBA (#57). Yonsei University was ranked to 36th in  "The world's most pioneering university" by Reuters,  which was announced in September 2015.