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University in Chungju, South Korea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Korea National University of Transportation (KNUT; Korean: 한국교통대학교) is a public, national university in Chungju City, North Chungcheong province and Uiwang City, Gyeonggi province, South Korea. The university was created in 2012 by merging Chungju National University and Korea National Railroad College. Chungju National University was established in 1962 in Chungju, which is one of the public Universities that established after independence. Korea National University is the only public university specialized and focused their education and research on transportation and communication on top of Engineering and Technology. After merging with Korea National Railroad College, it has 3 campuses across Korea; main campus in Chungju, biotechnology and nursing campus in Jeongpeung and transportation and communication campus in Uiwang. It enrolls about 200 graduate and 8,000 undergraduate students, and employs about 332 professors.
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한국교통대학교 | |
University Seal | |
| Motto | pursuit of truth future creation service to mankind |
|---|---|
| Type | National |
| Established | 2012 |
| President | Dr. Yoon Seong-Joe (Korean: 윤승조) |
Academic staff | 696 |
| Undergraduates | 12,130 |
| Postgraduates | 630 |
| Location | , 36.96976°N 127.87133°E |
| Campus | Suburban 861,033 square metres (9,268,080 sq ft) (Chungju Campus) |
| Colors | Burgundy (main color): Blue: Silver: |
| Website | www |
| Korea National University of Transportation | |
| Hangul | 한국교통대학교 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 韓國交通大學校 |
| Revised Romanization | Hanguk Gyotong Daehakgyo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Han'guk Kyot'ong Taehakkyo |
As of 30 April 2023,[update] the president of this university is Yoon Seong-Joe.
The school opened in 1962 as Chungju Technical Junior College (충주공업초급대학), a two-year school. It became Chungju Technical College, offering a five-year program, in 1965, and was nationalized in 1971. However, it was returned to the status of a two-year junior college in 1974. It was moved to its present-day location in 1982. Eleven years later in 1993, it became a four-year university, Chungju National University of Industry. In March 2006 it merged Cheongju National College of Science and Technology (Jeungpyeong campus now).
The university's undergraduate and graduate offerings are provided through its six colleges:
This college is located in Uiwang and the entire campus is classified as one college. Additionally, it is the only one of the three campuses of KNUT that is located in the metropolitan area.
The following three Schools or Divisions are independent and are not affiliated with the college:
The university maintains domestic sisterhood relationships with numerous institutions, including Korea's 19 other universities of industry. In addition, it has international ties with 30 universities in 15 countries: the United States (University of Sacramento), Bangladesh (University of Development Alternative) China (Beijing University of Technology, Yanbian University, Yanbian University of Science and Technology, Xuzhou Institute of Technology and Shanghai University), the Philippines (De La Salle University-Manila), Japan (Oita University and Kyushu Institute of Technology), Kazakhstan (Al-Farabi University and Pavlodar National University), Uzbekistanthe (Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages), India (University of Delhi), Canada (Nova Scotia Agricultural College) United Kingdom (University of Westminster), and Australia (Deakin University).
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