Introduction
With the help of Korean immigrants in Hawaii, Inha University was founded in 1954 in order to fulfill the dearest wish of empowering and bringing prosperity to the nation. The University itself stands for the ideals of bringing students’ characters, searching for the truth and serving society in order to embody the University’s founding principles of creativity, diligence and service. Since its' establishment, Inha University has produced highly talented graduates who have contributed to the development and modernization of Korea for the last half century.
Today, Inha boasts total 11 colleges : Engineering, Natural Science, Business Administration, Education, Social Science, Humanities, Medicine, Future Convergence, Frontier College, Arts & Sports, and School of Global Convergence Studies (SGCS). Inha University’s Graduate School offers master’s degree programs in 51 fields and 45 doctoral programs. Inha has already produced as many as 160,000 graduates who are now leaders in industry, science and technology. The University itself was ranked eighth in the Korea's prestigious newspaper JoongAng Ilbo’s comprehensive university ranking for 2017 among total 150 universities within Korea. With the student body of 20,000 students, Inha is continuing its efforts to become one of the top universities in the world.
Globalization is a phenomenon associated with a quantitative increase in exchanges between nations and states. Moreover, it has fundamentally affected our lives and led the society into another level. Therefore, not only Korea but also the world society needs talented professionals with a global sensibility and academic skills to lead the competition. Universities are now facing challenges and opportunities to follow the globalization trend and produce human resources that are capable of it. Inha University launched the ISGS program in March, 2017 to foster talented global leaders in the field of international business.
Later in the Fall of 2019, ISGS enlarged its curriculum and changed the department's name into 'School of Global Convergence Studies (SGCS).' SGCS consists of 3 majors such as 1) International Business & Trade (IBT) major, 2) Integrated System & Engineering (ISE) major, and 3) Korean Language and Culture (KLC) major. Each major provides a 4-year curriculum that contains the basic courses of economics, programming, and Korean in its first year as well as core courses in each major area for the last three years. Although the field of each majors are quite differentiated, they are all operating to foster global leaders and finally realize convergence of various fields.
Mission
- To provide world-class multi-disciplinary educational program for combined engineering and business studies in order to foster integrated and empathetic professionals who can lead global technological, economic, linguistic societies.
Goals
- To develop and provide innovative and quality assured educational programs in international convergence studies
- To foster global talented professionals who possess international recognized graduate attributes
- To nurture global leaders who will contribute creative impact to human society
Programs
Total 3 Majors
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- School of Global Convergence Studies
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- IBT
(International Business & Trade)-
B.A. Business
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- ISE
(Integrated System Engineering)-
B.A. Engineering
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- KLC
(Korean Language & Culture)-
B.A. Korean Language
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- IBT