Pohang college

Pohang university of technological know-how and era or POSTECH is a personal university noticed in Pohang, South Korea dedicated to analyze and practise in science and innovation. In 2012 and 2013, the instances higher education placed POSTECH first in its "100 beneath 50 young Universities" rankings.
POSTECH turned into made in 1986 in Pohang, Korea by means of POSCO, one of the international's riding metallic groups, with the cease purpose of giving propelled training to growing professionals and laying the muse for future modern improvement.
The originator of POSCO and the organising govt of POSTECH, Park Tae-joon understood the requirement for Korea to coach their adolescence in science and innovation to guarantee Korea's role inside the excessive innovation stadium. Park needed to make use of the California Institute of era as a version for POSTECH and went to the university on a commercial enterprise day out to los angeles in 1985. He cited attributes of CALTECH and asked for to the POSTECH organising organization to make a contemporary exam university that had: a low understudy team of workers percentage, a extra noteworthy quantity of graduate understudies to students, a low net education rate, understudy on-grounds lodging, and a amazing grounds surroundings. these gimmicks spoke to an superb takeoff from the Korean schools of the 1980s.
To comfy a university in a quick time of time, POSCO looked after out a crew on February 21, 1984 made up of POSCO representatives chose by means of the agency. improvement work began on August 17, 1985. On may additionally four, 1986, British top Minister Margaret Thatcher went by using POSTECH and gave an Inmos transputer, one of the important aspect computer parts at the time. The most important registration feature became held on March five, 1987. a meeting of 249 rookie had been selected from the primary one percent of all graduating seniors in Korea to learn via a international workforce selected through POSTECH establishing president Hogil Kim and POSTECH group head supervisor Dai Kong Lee. the principle degree recompensing function become on February 20, 1991. certificates were granted to 146 graduating seniors, 123 (eighty four%) of whom went ahead to are searching for after graduate research. The staying 23 graduates have been used by the united states of america's actual enterprises including POSCO, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai.


To encourage translational exam and dynamic the educated network industry coordinated attempt, POSTECH facilitated POSCO's research Institute of technological know-how and technology (RIST) on grounds. In 1994, POSTECH installation the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (buddy), a third era synchrotron light supply and now a national workplace. As of now, the fourth hypothesis X-beam unfastened electron laser (XFEL) light supply is below improvement (to be completed in 2015) at the cost folks$four hundred million, a good way to be the third one on earth and will open up new outskirts and examination zones in lifestyles sciences, substances, technological know-how, and cloth technological know-how.

Divisions
global relations workplace
vp's office
worldwide members of the family
school of technological know-how
worldwide Affairs
Arranging and international members of the family
bad habit Chancellor's office

TOPUNIVERSITIES ratings
Rank  86 in  global college rankings  2014/15
Rank  51 in  university challenge rankings  2014/15
Rank  four  in  QS college rankings: top 50 beneath 50  2014/15
Rank  nine  in  Asian university rankings  2014/15