Global Ed | Seoul National Wants You
Seoul National University got a nod in the NY Times for their increasing efforts as a foreign university to recruit and host American college students.
Unlike in the past, when most students spent semesters abroad as part of a horizon-broadening experience, many college students (and likewise graduate students) are enrolling in schools outside the U.S. for an entire degree.
An excerpt:
Expatriate education is expanding. This fall, at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference in Seattle, where admissions officers from American universities mingle with the counselors who help shape high school students’ college choices, there were representatives from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, Seoul National University in South Korea, Jacobs University Bremen in Germany, the University of Limerick in Ireland, as well as dozens more from Canada and Britain. –Full article
The world is getting flatter everyday, it seems. Coursework is increasingly being made available in English so that universities can attract international students and also retain talent domestically.
It just takes a few minutes to browse their homepages, and what were once entirely in Korean just a few years ago are now also available in English. Take a look:
Seoul National University Global MBA
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology)
Hongik University, recognized recently for having hired the most foreign faculty
Your graduate school options just got global!
–Ratemyhagwon
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