Seoul Women's University

Overview

Seoul Women's University

Seoul Women's University (SWU) is a private comprehensive university located in Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Although the Presbyterian Church of Korea passed a resolution for the foundation of the university in 1923, SWU was established in 1960 and opened in April 1961. The university was the first to offer a residential college program in Korea. SWU is ranked among the top universities in South Korea.

Seoul Women's University Key Statistics

The university is organized into five undergraduate faculties and four graduate schools. These include the College of Humanities, the College of Interdisciplinary Studies for Emerging Industries, the Graduate School of Human Services Studies, and the Graduate School of Professional Therapeutic Technology. Moreover, its undergraduate faculties are further divided into 25 departments. They offer 32 academic programs majors.

SWU has a population of 9,450 undergraduate students. It employs 423 professors and 229 administrative staff.

The five-story SWU Central Library uses its own e-library system, SELIS or Seoul Women's University Library Information System supported by TULIP 3.0. It houses a collection of 710,543 books (531,764 domestic and 178,779 foreign), 86,782 ebooks, 144 serials, 22 e-journals, and 58,888 non-book materials, including optical discs and microfilms. The university also owns a museum and a chapel.

Other Seoul Women's University key statistics include its partnerships and exchange programs with various international universities. Among these are the North Carolina A&T State University (United States), the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (Vietnam), the Eram University School at the University of Girona (Spain), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China), and the Institute of Special Education and Psychology (Russia).

Seoul Women's University Research

The university's top three research fields are biology, chemistry, and medicine. Its research projects are funded internally or through external grants from the Korean Ministry of Education and the Korean Science Foundation.

Its researchers have published in publications like IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, the Journal of Food Science, and Food Science and Biotechnology. They also get invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences, such as Advanced Data Mining and Applications, the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, and the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging.

The most cited publication from Seoul Women's University research is Scholthof et al.’s (2011) “Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology,” published in Molecular Plant Pathology. It has been cited a total of 859 times to date. The second most cited paper is Kim et al.’s (2001) “The effect of brand personality and brand identification on brand loyalty: Applying the theory of social identification,” which was published in Japanese Psychological Research. It has received a total of 827 citations.

Meanwhile, the university’s third most cited paper is Hau et al.’s (2013) “The effects of individual motivations and social capital on employees’ tacit and explicit knowledge sharing intentions,” published in the International Journal of Information Management. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 672 times so far.

The research centers and institutes of SWU include the Institute of Bahrom Character Education, the Humanities Research Institute, the Social Science Research Institute, the Natural Science Research Institute, the Women's Studies Institute, and the Child Research Center.

Moreover, its other research facilities include the Interdisciplinary Studies for Emerging Industries Research Institute and the Arts and Design Institute.