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Sejong University Obtains a High Rank at the QS World University Rankings 2023 2023.04.06 11019 |
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Sejong University has obtained a high rank in the ranking by major at the QS World University Rankings 2023. This was announced by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), which is a British global university analysis institute. The QS World University Rankings is one of the three greatest global university evaluation institutes in addition to the Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Sejong University was ranked in the top range in three fields, which include Business Administration/Social Science, Technology/Engineering, and Natural Science, among five integrated rankings. There are 10 majors that are ranked in the global levels, which include the Hospitality and Tourism Management Major, and nine of them moved up in the rankings or entered the top range. Sejong University had seven majors place in the top 10 among domestic universities, which include 1st for Hospitality and Tourism Management, 7th for Civil Structural Engineering, 8th for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, 8th for Environment Science, 8th for Computer Engineering, 9th for Electrical Engineering, and 10th for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The Hospitality and Tourism Management Major took the top spot among domestic universities for the third year running, which proves again that Sejong University is the best domestic university in the hotel management field. Sejong moved up to 46th from 48th last year in the global rankings. It also won 54.1 total points, which included 85.4 for paper citation counts, 61.1 for academic reputation, and 44.7 for graduate reputation. This especially shows the superiority of research at Sejong. This is the outcome of the teaching staff being equipped both with practice and theory as well as hospitality tourism specialized curriculum. The Sejong Culinary Institute of Asia (SCIA) was opened in June 2019 with the goal of becoming Asia’s best culinary education institute, which was on the strength of Sejong University leading the domestic hotel management and restaurant business education field. In addition, the Smart Tourism Management Software (ST) combined major is operated in order to cultivate convergence human resources in the hotel tourism and service industry that corresponds to the fourth industrial revolution era. The Business Administration/Social Science Major was ranked in the top range for the first time by taking 10th place among domestic universities, and it placed 451~500th internationally with 87.7 for paper citation counts, 57.1 for academic reputation, 54.2 for graduate reputation, 64.9 for the H-Index, and 54.6 for the international academic network. The technology/engineering field placed 10th place among domestic universities, and it placed 12th place in 2021, and 11th in 2022, which shows a solid uptrend each year. It moved up in the world rankings as well with 331st place. The College of Engineering at Sejong University offers systemic curriculum for students to research and learn basic and core engineering theories and technologies. Freshmen and sophomores take basic subjects, such as liberal arts, computation education, and foreign language, whereas juniors and seniors take core major subjects. It also operates a double major system in order to cultivate convergence talents and engineering accreditation system for individuals who are favorable for actual fields. The Civil Structural Engineering Major placed 7th place domestically and 201~230th internationally and reentered the top rankings after 2021. It received 89.8 for paper citation counts, 59.5 for academic reputation, 54.2 for graduate reputation, and 71.5 for the H-Index. The Electrical Engineering Major placed 9th domestically, and the Computer Engineering/ Information System Major placed 8th and entered the top 10 range among domestic universities. The two departments moved up to 251-300th place from 401~450th. The Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Sejong University is divided into the mechanical engineering and the aerospace engineering majors. The integrated field of Natural Science placed 11th domestically and 401~450th internationally, which is higher than 2021 and 2022. It received 79.9 for paper citation counts, 52 for academic reputation, 53.6 for graduate reputation, 72 for the H-Index, and 59.7 for international academic network. Mathematics entered the top rankings for the first time by placing 12th domestically and 451~500th internationally. Environment science and the Department of Physics and Astronomy placed 8th place domestically and stabilized in the top 10 from last year. Environment science moved to 201~250th from 251~300th internationally and the Department of Physics and Astronomy moved from 301~350th to 251~300th. The QS Rankings by Major utilizes academic reputation, graduate reputation, paper citation counts, and the H-Index, which includes the paper productivity and influence, for the evaluation indexes. The five greatest college evaluation systems include an international academic network. The academic reputation is the most important standard with over 150,000 global scholars’ participation, which accounts for 40~60%. QS 2023 has evaluated 1,594 universities from 94 countries |
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