A New Challenge in Higher Education (Handdong Uni.)

Handong University was established in 1995. It is a small institution in terms of school physical size and history. However, they are passionate in Christ.

Year 2007 (Student Enrollment): Total 3,991 (13 Undergraduate & 6 Graduate programs) 

Undergraduate: 3,561

Graduate: 430

 

Paid Employment:

Faculty: 144

Staff: 75

   "Universities can make great contribution to the global village by helping to define and promote the shared values of a truly global society. If universities or their graduates partake solely of the values and traditions of their home cultures, if they become isolated in narrowly-defined academic disciplines, or if they ignore the growing connections between nations and peoples, they will be unable to offer true leadership in the 21st century."(MIT President Charles Vest)

   With the emergence the postindustrial age, there have been attempts to combine some kindred fields of study and profession. For examples, the techno-MBA combining both management and technology was conducted at the Lally school of Management and Technology(Dean D.F. Simon) of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. At the several US universities, there are also joint degree programs combining business(MBA) and Law(JD). But there are no one graduate degree program integrating the three important academic disciplines of technology, business, and law with global perspectives in the fused globalizing 21st century.

   Handong Global University has initiated in 2003 a new cross-disciplinary advanced Graduate Degree of the Global Leadership-MBA Program integrating Technology, Business, and Law based on character education. It is not simply administration and management of business, but for promotion and advancement of global business. This Global-MBA degree is primarily designed to provide higher level of education for top & senior executives poised to take on significant corporate leadership positions required for advancement of business in technology-driven global world. This Global-MBA program is different from traditional MBA or executive MBA in a sense that MBA and E-MBA are concentrating mainly on business aspect.

 

International Cooperation & Exchange

To prepare students for the globalized world in the 21st century, Handong actively establishes numerous exchange programs with universities and organizations throughout the world. Through such programs, students from Handong and abroad are able to learn from each other, work together, and develop relationships of understanding and goodwill. Minds are expanded, leadership skills are developed, and essential knowledge and experience are acquired.

Following are descriptions of some current exchange programs :

Global Engineering Education Exchange (GE3) Program

 Korean Cultural Studies Program

 HIIT-Handong Institute for Information Technology(HIT)

U.S. Home-Stay Program

 China Exchange

Russia Exchange

International Service & Missions

Handong University is the first Asian university to become a GE3 member

Source: (http://www.han.ac.kr/n_handong/about/status_01.html; http://www.handong.edu/n_english/)