Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: Statistics

Rank	Ranking
#1743 of 14,160	In the World
#496 of 5,829	In Asia
#31 of 193	In South Korea
#16 of 39	In Seoul
#425 of 1,031	For Linguistics
Top50%	For 14 other topics

All Hankuk University of Foreign Studies rankings

Quick Review

Acceptance rate: 15%
Enrollment: 21,240
Funding: Private
Highest Degree: Doctorate
Website: www.hufs.ac.kr
Languages: Korean;English;Japanese;Chinese;Russian

Acceptance rate & Admissions

Acceptance Rate	15%
Admissions Requirements	Graduation from high school or equivalent, and entrance examination
Academic Calendar	March to December (March - July; September-December)
Enrollment	21,240
Full time employee	652
Student:staff ratio	33:1

Publications & Citations

Publications: 4,527
Citations: 64,045

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies majors

by publication & citation count

Engineering	976 / 18,499
Liberal Arts & Social Sciences	852 / 5,783
Computer Science	794 / 7,517
Chemistry	729 / 20,889
Business	547 / 10,974
Physics	539 / 15,141
Economics	433 / 7,498
Materials Science	429 / 14,056
Biology	401 / 16,526
Mathematics	363 / 4,589
Psychology	316 / 4,459
Environmental Science	263 / 5,906
Medicine	262 / 3,153
Artificial Intelligence (AI)	253 / 1,422
Political Science	229 / 1,296
Computer Networking	218 / 1,806
Art & Design	202 / 1,346
Linguistics	166 / 898
Sociology	158 / 911
Social Psychology	115 / 1,496
Econometrics and Mathematical Economics	112 / 1,480
Condensed Matter Physics	111 / 1,099
Computer Vision	107 / 687
Microbiology	105 / 2,188
Electronic Engineering	104 / 1,035
Development Studies	100 / 905
Marketing	99 / 4,666
Investment Banking and Stock trading	93 / 3,694
Meteorology and Atmospheric Science	89 / 4,057
Finance	84 / 2,377
Environmental Chemistry	83 / 2,006
Blockchain and Cryptography	77 / 870
Statistics	75 / 795
Chemical Engineering	74 / 1,116
International Business	73 / 713
Communications and Public Relations	73 / 1,688
History	72 / 100
Nanotechnology	70 / 9,837
Demography	70 / 988
Math Teachers	70 / 362

Annual publication & citation counts

Year	Publications	Citations
1990	0	5
1991	1	5
1992	2	11
1993	6	11
1994	9	17
1995	8	42
1996	20	41
1997	28	81
1998	32	123
1999	23	149
2000	45	174
2001	61	267
2002	64	390
2003	69	441
2004	72	715
2005	63	941
2006	90	1148
2007	107	1337
2008	123	1752
2009	148	2265
2010	160	2403
2011	206	3035
2012	238	3565
2013	277	3842
2014	313	4539
2015	385	4877
2016	375	5002
2017	371	5073
2018	359	4448
2019	342	5686
2020	383	6875

Tuition

	Undergraduate	Graduate
Local students	$3,750	$3,750
International students	$3,750	$3,750

The Hankuk University of Foreign Studies has financial aid programs and on-campus housing.

Programs and Degrees

Programs	Associate's degree	Bachelor's	Master's	Doctoral
Design \| Arts \| Humanities	–	+	+	+
Business \| Politics \| Social Sciences	–	+	+	+
Languages \| Culture \| Linguistics	–	+	+	+
Nursing \| Health \| Pharmacy \| Medicine	–	–	–	–
Engineering \| IT	–	+	+	+
Maths \| Natural Sciences	–	+	+	+

Master's Degree	Accountancy, Advertising and Publicity, African Languages, African Studies, Air Transport, American Studies, Arabic, Archiving, Asian Studies, Biological and Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Bulgarian, Business Administration, Business Education, Canadian Studies, Central European Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Education, Computer Engineering, Cultural Studies, Czech, Development Studies, East Asian Studies, Eastern European Studies, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational and Student Counselling, Electronic Engineering, English, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Finance, Foreign Languages Education, French, German, Hindi, History, Human Resources, Human Rights, Humanities and Social Science Education, Hungarian, Indonesian, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Information Management, Information Sciences, Information Technology, International Business, International Economics, International Law, International Relations, International Studies, Italian, Japanese, Journalism, Korean, Latin American Studies, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Malay, Management, Marketing, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Native Language Education, Peace and Disarmament, Persian, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Polish, Political Sciences, Portuguese, Preschool Education, Public Administration, Public Relations, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Romanian, Russian, Scandinavian Languages, Science Education, Slavic Languages, Social Studies, South and Southeast Asian Languages, South Asian Studies, Spanish, Statistics, Telecommunications Engineering, Thai Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Turkish, Vietnamese
Doctor's Degree	African Studies, American Studies, Arabic, Archiving, Asian Studies, Biological and Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Canadian Studies, Central European Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Cognitive Sciences, Comparative Literature, Computer Engineering, Cultural Studies, Czech, East Asian Studies, Eastern European Studies, Economics, Electronic Engineering, English, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Foreign Languages Education, French, German, History, Hungarian, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Information Sciences, Information Technology, International Business, International Economics, International Law, International Relations, International Studies, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Polish, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Romanian, Russian, Slavic Languages, Social Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish, Statistics, Telecommunications Engineering, Translation and Interpretation

Master's Degree

Accountancy, Advertising and Publicity, African Languages, African Studies, Air Transport, American Studies, Arabic, Archiving, Asian Studies, Biological and Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Bulgarian, Business Administration, Business Education, Canadian Studies, Central European Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Cognitive Sciences, Computer Education, Computer Engineering, Cultural Studies, Czech, Development Studies, East Asian Studies, Eastern European Studies, Economics, Education, Educational Administration, Educational and Student Counselling, Electronic Engineering, English, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Finance, Foreign Languages Education, French, German, Hindi, History, Human Resources, Human Rights, Humanities and Social Science Education, Hungarian, Indonesian, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Information Management, Information Sciences, Information Technology, International Business, International Economics, International Law, International Relations, International Studies, Italian, Japanese, Journalism, Korean, Latin American Studies, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Malay, Management, Marketing, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Native Language Education, Peace and Disarmament, Persian, Philosophy, Physical Education, Physics, Polish, Political Sciences, Portuguese, Preschool Education, Public Administration, Public Relations, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Romanian, Russian, Scandinavian Languages, Science Education, Slavic Languages, Social Studies, South and Southeast Asian Languages, South Asian Studies, Spanish, Statistics, Telecommunications Engineering, Thai Languages, Translation and Interpretation, Turkish, Vietnamese

Doctor's Degree

African Studies, American Studies, Arabic, Archiving, Asian Studies, Biological and Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Canadian Studies, Central European Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Cognitive Sciences, Comparative Literature, Computer Engineering, Cultural Studies, Czech, East Asian Studies, Eastern European Studies, Economics, Electronic Engineering, English, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, European Studies, Foreign Languages Education, French, German, History, Hungarian, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management, Information Sciences, Information Technology, International Business, International Economics, International Law, International Relations, International Studies, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Management, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Polish, Political Sciences, Public Administration, Romanian, Russian, Slavic Languages, Social Studies, South Asian Studies, Spanish, Statistics, Telecommunications Engineering, Translation and Interpretation

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies alumni

Park Seong-ung
Photo
Born in
South Korea
Years
1973-.. (age 48)
Occupations
film actoractortelevision actor
Biography
Park Sung-woong is a South Korean actor. Following his acting debut in No. 3 in 1997, Park has starred in several movies and television series, notably as a gangster in New World (2013) and a serial killer in The Deal (2015).
Kim Ji-seok
Photo
Born in
South Korea
Years
1981-.. (age 40)
Occupations
film actoractortelevision actor
Biography
Kim Ji-seok is a South Korean actor.
Kim Jun
Photo
Born in
South Korea
Years
1984-.. (age 37)
Occupations
singeractormodeltelevision actor
Biography
Kim Joon is a South Korean rapper and actor who rose to stardom with his portrayal of one of the famous F4 members in the 2009 hit drama Boys Over Flowers.
Younha
Photo
Born in
South Korea
Years
1988-.. (age 33)
Occupations
singerfilm actorjazz musicianpianistsongwriter
Biography
Go Youn-ha, better known by the mononym Younha, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. She began her career in 2004 in Japan, where she was nicknamed the "Oricon Comet" for her success on the Japanese music chart. In 2006, she debuted in South Korea, where she is regarded as one of the country's best singer-songwriters.

All 18 notable alumni

General info

Alternative names	HUFS 한국외국어대학교
Founded	1954
Accreditation	Korean Council for University Education (KCUE)
Motto	Veritas, Pax, Creatio Truth, Peace, Creation
Colors	navy, gold
Academic structure	College of English College of Occidental Languages College of Oriental Languages College of Chinese College of Japanese College of Social Sciences College of Law College of Business and Economics College of Business College of Education College of Humanities College of Interpretation and Translation College of Central and East European Studies College of International and Area Studies College of Economics and Business College of Natural Sciences College of Engineering Minerva College Graduate School Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation Graduate School of International and Area Studies Graduate School of Education Graduate School of Politics, Government and Communication Graduate School of Business Graduate School of TESOL Law School
Affiliations and memberships	Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS) Silk-road Universities Network (SUN)

Location and Contacts

Address	107 Imun-ro, Dongdaemun-gu Seoul, Seoul, 02450 South Korea
City population	9,807,000
Phone	+82 (2) 2173 2657
Fax	+82 (2) 2173 2877

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36	Hongik University		Seoul
37	Wonkwang University		Iksan
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