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The Korean Council for University Education has been the central piece of the higher education quality assurance system since its founding in 1982.
Most importantly, the Council’s Center for University Accreditation is the sole institutional accreditation authority in the Republic of Korea and has conducted four cycles of institutional evaluations and accreditations of its member universities between 1982 and 2006. It also provides critical support to member universities to execute self-studies. From 2008, the Council has conducted business-perspective university evaluations to provide a mechanism for industry feedback into university curricula and reduce gaps between industry needs and graduate skills. It also conducted programmatic accreditations from 1992 to 2008. |
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Institutional Accreditation
The Council began work in quality assurance with two rounds of university institutional evaluations, the first from 1982 to 1985 and the second from 1988 to 1992.
These efforts were upgraded to the Comprehensive University Accreditation System in which member universities were evaluated and formally accredited twice in two rounds, the first from 1994 to 2000 and the second from 2001 to 2006. Results from the second round of evaluations under this system (available here) are the most recent determination of accreditation status of the Council’s member universities. Since the conclusion of the most recent round of university accreditations, the Council, the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST), and other quality assurance-related organizations have developed a revised system of accreditation in which relevant organizations apply for and receive recognition from MEST to conduct institutional or programmatic accreditations. The Council’s Center for University Accreditation received recognition as Korea’s sole institutional accrediting authority for four-year universities in November of 2010 and will resume institutional evaluations of its member universities in 2011 within the new Institutional Accreditation System, which will incorporate an improved set of evaluation standards and criteria. Universities will be evaluated in five-year cycles under this system. |
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University Self-Study
The Council supports its member universities in conducting institutional self-studies, which have been required by law every two years beginning 2009. Specifically, the Council develops and publishes guidelines, ensures member university compliance, provides consultation, and administers professional development programs among other things. Results from the biennial self-studies are utilized in the institutional accreditation process detailed above.
Select information from self-study results are also made available to the public through the Council’s Higher Education Transparency Service. Detailed information on universities’ student body, admissions, finances, tuition, faculty, and research are published online (currently available in Korean only), including graduation rates, distribution of students across academic fields, admissions selectivity, graduate employment rates, percentage of full-time faculty, and much more. |
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