Hanyang University

South Korea · Higher Education

Hanyang University is a private research university in South Korea. The main campus is in Seoul, and the second one, the Education Research Industry Cluster at Ansan, or ERICA campus, is located in Ansan. Its motto and educational philosophy is Love in Deed and Truth. The university established the nation's first engineering institute (DongA Engineering Institute) in 1939 which became the founding facility of Hanyang University.It also established the first school of architecture and civil engineering in Korea. Hanyang University has an alumni network of 300,000 that is not limited to the field of engineering but also to other fields.In 2015, Hanyang was ranked 1st for the number of CEO alumni of venture companies.In 2013, Times Higher Education ranked Hanyang University 76th for the number of alumni CEOs in the world’s top 500 companies. The university enrolls over 2,000 foreign students each year and more than 3,000 students study abroad annually.