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.
Korea National Open University (KNOU) Key Statistics & Highlights
- 105,668 Students
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 |
We don’t have enough recent ranking data to show a 3-year trend for this university.
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 |
We don’t have enough recent ranking data to show a 3-year trend for this university.
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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