Honam University to Select All 1,651 Early Admission Applicants from 23rd to 28th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Honam University (President Park Sang-chul), the only ‘AI-specialized university’ in Korea, announced on the 22nd that it will select all 1,651 students in the 2021 academic year early admission from the 23rd to the 28th.

The 2021 academic year early admission ‘General Student Track’ reflects 60% of the school record and 40% of the interview.

The Department of Nursing and the Department of Physical Therapy select five times the number of recruits in the first stage with 100% school record, then conduct interviews. All other general departments conduct interviews for all applicants.

The biggest feature of the ‘General Student Track’ is that it does not apply the minimum CSAT grade.

To broaden the choices for examinees, overlapping applications between the interview-centered track and the school record-centered track are allowed, and the general management fee of the application fee is reduced for overlapping applications.

In the 2021 admissions, the Department of Clinical Pathology is newly established to select 25 freshmen for the first time, the Department of Nursing increased its quota by 30 to 160, and the Department of Emergency Medical Services increased by 10 to 50, actively reflecting students’ preferences and manpower demand trends according to future social changes to pursue ‘customized talent cultivation.’

For three years until the 2021 academic year, a groundbreaking financial support plan investing 39.1 billion KRW has been implemented for students’ skill improvement and welfare, including foreign language support, extracurricular programs, and various scholarships.

Specifically, 21.9 billion KRW for scholarships directly benefiting students, 4.07 billion KRW for employment consulting and employment support, 4.1 billion KRW for educational environment improvement, and 2 billion KRW for purchasing laboratory and practice equipment.

Since being selected as the Ministry of Education’s 4th Industrial Revolution Innovation Leading University in the Gwangju area in 2018, Honam University has set the vision of an AI-specialized university and invested about 6.2 billion KRW to build an AI campus and lay the foundation for talent cultivation up to this year.

By 2028, when the 50th anniversary ‘Dream 2028’ is completed, a total of 26 billion KRW will be invested to establish itself as the best AI-specialized university in Korea.

Thanks to such bold and proactive AI talent cultivation and system construction, Honam University recently won the ‘2020 National Service Award’ Grand Prize in the ‘University-AI (Artificial Intelligence) Specialization’ category, recognized as the top university in Korea to lead the 4th Industrial Revolution era.

New students who are admitted and registered through the 2021 academic year early admission will receive vouchers worth about 550,000 KRW to purchase various smart devices including mobile phones and tablet PCs, or cash as AI talent scholarships.

Also, those who register as additional successful candidates in the early admission will receive smart devices such as AirPods worth about 200,000 KRW or cash.

Honam University has successfully carried out large national projects such as Local University Specialization (CK-1), PRIME, LINC+, and University Innovation Support Pilot (PILOT) projects, and was selected as an autonomous improvement university in the 2nd cycle university basic competency diagnosis evaluation, establishing itself as a prestigious private university representing Honam.

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