Inha University

Overview

Inha University

Inha University is a private research university in Incheon, South Korea. It was founded in 1954 as Inha Institute of Technology by Syngman Rhee, the first president of South Korea with the purpose of providing expertise and hope to a lagging industrial sector. The institution gained university status in 1971 and is currently ranked among the top 200 universities in Asia with contributions in sciences, medicine, and chemistry.

Inha University Key Statistics

The university has 12 colleges including the College of Business Administration, College of Natural Sciences, College of Future Convergence, and the Frontier College. It offers 41 fields of study for the doctoral program, 47 for the master’s program, and bachelor’s programs in various disciplines.

For the year 2020, the College of Engineering, College of Business Administration, and the College of Humanities have the most number of undergraduate students.

Other Inha University statistics include the 20,240 students, 17,507 of whom are undergraduates and 2,739 are postgraduates. The university employs 819 full-time faculty, 983 part-time faculty, and 188 academic staff. Among the facilities inside the university campus are resident halls, health centers, practice halls, common rooms, and the library that houses a large collection of books in various areas.

The university is a member of the Global U8 Consortium together with seven other universities from China, Malaysia, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Brazil, and Israel. GU8 is a global collaboration between prestigious higher educational institutions located in coastal cities.

Inha University Research

Inha University has been recognized nationally for its strong reputation as a technological research university. It is part of the Brain Korea 21 project that aims to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in the county by providing fellowship funding to graduate students and professors in research groups at top Korean Universities.

Materials science, medicine, and chemistry are the top fields of Inha University research. Their work output has been presented at various conferences such as the Joint International Conference on Information Sciences in 2011, the International Conference on Communications in 2009, and the International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology in 2006.

The most cited articles from the university are Islam et al.‘s (2015) “ The Internet of Things for health care: A comprehensive survey” that appeared in IEEE Access which has more than 1,800 citations, Rha and Saver‘s (2007) “The impact of recanalization on ischemic stroke outcome: A meta-analysis” featured in Stroke and has above 1,700 citations, and Ullah et al.‘s (2012) “A comprehensive survey of wireless body area networks” published in the Journal of Medical Systems with over 1,400 citations to date.

Among the many research institutes at Inha university are the Research Institute for Medical Sciences, Institute for Information and Electronics Research, Center for Advanced Bioseparation Technology, and the Institute of Industrial Biotechnology. Project teams for BK21 include the research team for future renewable energy physics, the research division for glocal multicultural education, and the pioneer program in next-generation artificial intelligence for industrial convergence.