Yeungjin College, 'Most Respected Junior College in Korea' for 14 Consecutive Years... Survey by Korea Management Association Consulting

Daegu Yeungjin College (President Choi Jae-young) announced on the 25th that it has achieved the remarkable feat of being ranked No. 1 as the ‘Most Respected Junior College in Korea in 2025’ as a result of its dedication to nurturing outstanding talents equipped with both expertise and character through curriculum innovation responding to digital new technology changes and customized on-site order-based education.

Korea Management Association Consulting (KMAC) announced on the same day that Yeungjin College was selected as No. 1 in the ‘Junior College Category’ in the survey of the ‘Most Respected Companies in Korea in 2025.’ Yeungjin has built a golden tower by ranking first for 14 consecutive years from the first year the survey of the ‘Most Respected Junior Colleges in Korea’ was conducted until this year.

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The ‘Most Respected Companies (Universities) in Korea’ are selected by KMAC based on evaluations of 11 core values including innovation, customer, employee, society, and image value, using indicators from industry insiders, securities analysts, and consumer evaluations. The university (junior college) category survey is conducted targeting external customers such as university officials and corporate HR managers to ensure objectivity and reliability of the survey.

Founded in 1977, Yeungjin College is recognized as a pioneering role model in educational innovation. With the goal of nurturing professional technicians who will lead the ‘industrial nation’ in fields such as artificial intelligence and big data, it has steadfastly maintained its identity as a ‘professional’ institution and firmly pursued the path of cultivating ‘professional technicians.’

Yeungjin has established an integrated education system ranging from associate degrees to bachelor’s degrees and professional technical master’s degrees, leading the advancement of the ‘root industry,’ which is the core of industrial competitiveness.

In cooperation with Daegu City, Yeungjin has signed MOUs with the Daegu Human Resources Development Committee, Daegu Technopark (TP), Daegu Machinery Parts Research Institute, and Korea Mold Industry Cooperative, taking the lead in strengthening the technological competitiveness of local industries.

Yeungjin College was selected for the Ministry of Education’s ‘Meister University Pilot Operation Project’ in 2022, laying the foundation for nurturing highly skilled professional technical talents. That year, it established the ‘Precision Mechanical Engineering Department (2-year program),’ and in February 2024, it produced the first 28 graduates with professional technical master’s degrees from the Precision Mechanical Engineering Department, opening a new horizon in professional technician training.

Additionally, in the Innovative Convergence University Project aimed at nurturing core talents in digital new technology fields, Yeungjin achieved the remarkable feat of being the only junior college nationwide selected in three fields: intelligent robots, artificial intelligence, and semiconductor materials, parts, and equipment (SoBuJang).

Yeungjin College shifted the paradigm from supplier-centered education to demand-centered, on-site customized education. Yeungjin, which pioneered and introduced customized order-based education tailored to corporate sites for the first time in Korea, is now advancing as a global university in the 21st century.

Yeungjin is accelerating overseas employment to realize its university vision of ‘Global Leader Yeungjin College.’

According to the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Employment Statistics Survey (2023 graduates) released in January 2025, 101 graduates of Yeungjin in 2023 found employment at Japanese companies. This achievement is the highest nationwide for overseas employment among 2-year and 4-year universities and ranks first nationwide. Looking at overseas employment results over the past seven years (2017?2023), 677 were employed in Japan, 45 in Australia, and 733 in the United States, New Zealand, Singapore, and other countries. They are proving Yeungjin’s global competitiveness by working at global conglomerates and listed companies such as SoftBank, Rakuten, and Yahoo Japan.

Graduates of the Japan IT Department at Yeongjin College, who have all been confirmed for employment at a Japanese IT company, are taking a commemorative photo.

As a higher education institution, Yeungjin is also actively engaged in social contribution activities with the local community. In addition to operating educational donation career experience classes for elementary, middle, and high school students in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region, it practices love and volunteer spirit in the local community through annual winter activities such as sharing briquettes and kimchi.

President Choi Jae-young stated, “Our university has worked as one to expand and reorganize the curriculum into new industry fields and social practical fields in cooperation with companies and institutions based on the order-based education foundation we have built so far, focusing on vocational education, which is the essence of junior college education.” He added, “We will do our best to further solidify our status as a ‘Global Leader’ university and enhance the dignity of junior college education.”

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