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Korea National Open University (KNOU) 

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Founded in 1972, Korea National Open University (KNOU) has played a seminal role in bringing higher education to the masses when it became the first distance education university in the nation.  

Korea National Open University (KNOU)  Key Statistics & Highlights

  • 105,668 Students

History

Date of birth: September 2, 1956

Education

Based on 50 years of distance education experience and KNOU’s own broadcasting infrastructure, the university is providing high-quality educational lectures.

Career

Job and Career Counseling provides KNOU students with information on how to find jobs or develop career paths, lists of accessible licenses per department, job listings, vocational training programs, career development lectures, career development workshops and career counseling.

Student services

The Student Service Center provides quality academic services for KNOU students, graduates and prospective students by offering prompt counseling to answer to questions concerning campus life and giving information on academic inquiries.

ICT services

Web-Based Instruction (WBI) encourages active participation of learners by overcoming the limitations of media in distance education as there are two-way active teaching and learning activities such as team projects and online discussions which involve various multimedia, including videos, audio and animations.

Medical services

Information and counseling on health-related issues and basic medical check-ups to KNOU students.

Student clubs

The KNOU National Student Union is a self-governing student body that consists of the president, an executive branch, 13 regional student unions andstudent unions from each department. The leadership is elected every December by KNOU students.

Korea National Open University (KNOU)  Overview

Korea National Open University (KNOU)  Rankings

Study Portals Meta Ranking

Top % South Korea
Top % Worldwide

Studyportals ranking look at the scores of the most used ranking systems and present you with one number of how well this University performs.

Academic Ranking of World Universities

151

By Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Climbed 50 places compared to 2015

ARWU World University rankings is the first world university ranking. It ranks the world's top 1000 colleges and universities based on objective indicator. They look at the number of award-winning (Fields Medals and Nobel Prize) scientists who are located there, how much of their research is cited and referenced around the world, and how much they've contributed to different academic fields. After calculating and comparing these criteria, ARWU ranks the universities accordingly.

3 year trend Academic Ranking of World Universities

2014 2015 2016
201 201 151

World University Rankings

201

By Times Higher Education

The university hasn’t moved up or down in the rankings over the past year.

World University Rankings is a vital resource that provides the definitive list of the world's best universities. They look at how often they're producing new ideas, what their reputation is around the world, and how much they're contributing to science and academic fields. After calculating and comparing these criteria, THE ranks the universities accordingly.

3 year trend World University Rankings

2015 2016 2017
201 201 201

Korea National Open University (KNOU)  Campus Locations

#1 Main Campus
South Korea Country
Seoul City

Korea National Open University (KNOU)  Student Reviews & Awards

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5/5

Very satisfied because it is a really good

I don't have much to say, I'm a person of few words, to be honest.

Posted by Anonymous
Studied from Jan 2016 - Nov 2024
Posted on Mar 2025
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