LGU+ Soongsil University 'Department of Information Security', Competition Rate Nears 20 to 1 Due to Freshman Benefits

Accepted First Freshmen This Year
Established as a Popular Major
Tuition and Living Expenses Support

LG Uplus has established a new 'Department of Information Security' in collaboration with Soongsil University. The department attracted high application competition rates by offering benefits such as tuition and living expenses support for students up to their second year.

The opening ceremony for the Department of Information Security, jointly established by LG Uplus and Soongsil University, was held on the 28th at the JW Marriott Hotel in Seoul. Hong Kwanhee, Executive Vice President of LG Uplus (6th from the left in the front row), Jang Beomsik, President of Soongsil University (5th from the left in the front row), along with LG Uplus officials, Soongsil University faculty, and new students, are taking a commemorative photo together.
[Photo by LG Uplus]

The Department of Information Security, which admitted its first freshmen this year, is a contract-based department created jointly by LG Uplus and Soongsil University with employment conditions. LG Uplus covers tuition and living expenses for all freshmen through their second year.

Students who pass the LG Uplus industry-academia recruitment screening can also receive tuition for their third and fourth years, an industry-academia support stipend (300,000 KRW per month), and LG Uplus mobile communication fees (200,000 KRW per month).

These financial supports and employment benefits have drawn significant interest from students. In this year's admissions, the regular admission competition rate for Soongsil University's Department of Information Security exceeded 10:1, and the early admission competition rate approached 20:1.

According to Soongsil University's announced '2024 Admission Results,' the Department of Information Security ranked as the department with the highest average CSAT scores among all departments at Soongsil University.

The average CSAT scores in Korean, Mathematics, and Inquiry subjects for regular admission students in the Department of Information Security were 91.9 points, which is 4.4 points higher than the department ranked second.

Among students admitted through early admission, many achieved excellent results in major domestic hacking competitions such as the 'Cyber Guardians Competition,' 'Embedded SW Competition,' and 'Cyber Attack Defense Competition.'

On the 28th, LG Uplus and Soongsil University held the 'Soongsil University Department of Information Security Opening Ceremony' at the JW Marriott Hotel in Seoul, inviting about 100 people including freshmen and their families, and presented all freshmen with high-spec laptops as admission gifts.

At the event, Soongsil University President Jang Beom-sik stated, "Our university has cultivated over 10,000 software professionals over 54 years," and added, "We will prepare special programs for the Department of Information Security and strive to nurture cyber security talents."

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