The Korea National University of Transportation (KNUT) 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 Seoul. It enrolls about 200 graduate and 8,000 undergraduate students, and employs about 295 professors. The president of the university is Dr. Park joon-hoon.

Academics

The university's undergraduate and graduate offerings are provided through its seven colleges and one school:

College of Engineering

*Department of Energy System Engineering *Department of Industrial engineering, Industrial & Management Engineering *Department of Safety Engineering *Department of Materials science, Materials Science and Engineering *Major in Environmental Engineering *Major in Environmental System Engineering *Department of Chemical engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering *Department of Polymer Science and Engineering *Department of Bioengineering

College of Construction Engineering and Design

*Department of Civil Engineering *Department of Municipal or urban engineering, Urban Engineering *Department of Architectural Engineering *Department of Architecture (5-years program) *Department of Industrial Design *Department of Transportation Facility Engineering *Department of Aircraft Operation *Department of Information Design *Department of Transportation Ecology Engineering

College of Convergence Technology

*Department of Electrical Engineering *Department of Electronic Engineering *Department of Mechanical Engineering *Department of Automobile Engineering *Department of Aeronautical Engineering *Department of Computer Science *Department of Software Engineering *Department of Biomedical Engineering *Department of AI Robot Engineering

College of Humanities

*Department of English Language & Literature *Department of English *Department of Chinese *Department of Music *Department of Creative Writing *Department of Sports & Health Science

College of Social Sciences

*Department of Public Administration *Department of Public Administration & Information System *Department of Business Administration *Department of Management information system, Management Information System *Department of Transportation Service Management

College of Health and life Sciences

*Department of Nursing *Department of Physical Therapy *Department of Emergency medical services, Emergency Medical Service *Department of Food Science & Technology *Department of Biotechnology *Department of Medical IT Engineering *Department of Early Childhood Special Education

College of International, Social and information Science

*Department of Early Childhood Education *Department of Computer Multimedia Engineering *Department of Social Welfare *Department of International Business & Commerce

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

This school offers various general and introductory courses. It focuses on planning curricula to cultivate empowered students with global and creative minds. Students will mainly take courses such as on social and pure sciences, Korean language, foreign languages, humanities, social sciences and natural science
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History

The school opened in 1962 as Chungju Technical Junior College (), 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 Chongju National College of Science and Technology, Cheongju National College of Science and Technology (Jeungpyeong campus now).

Sister schools

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).

References

External links

Official school website

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