Reputation and Performance
A total of 170,000 women have graduated. The university is proceeding with a plan called "Initiative Ewha" to improve its global reputation. As of 2008, it was ranked between 400th and 500th in the world.
Admission to Ewha Womans University is selective. According to the Joongang Daily's ranking of universities in Korea, Ewha Womans University was ranked 9th in 2003 and 8th in 2007. When Josun Ilbo, another Korean newspaper, and the British Quacquarelli Symonds did its ranking in 2009, Ewha came in 6th. However, the university has been ranked within the top 3 in the NCSI (National Consumer Satisfaction Index) university rankings for four consecutive years. Ewha also topped the Korean Council for University Education's 2005 University General Assessment List.
Internationally
- Beijing University designates "Ewha University Day"
- Ewha is Korea's only Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) partner
- Ewha, Wellesley College and Barnard College agree to jointly develop World Women's Leadership Program
Nationwide
- 15 out of 32 female ministers graduated from Ewha: 46.8%
- 17 out of 40 female members of the 17th parliament graduated from Ewha: 42.5%
- Ewha ranks 5th in the nation for the number of graduates passing the judicial, civil, and foreign officers examinations (2007)
- Ewha produced 2nd largest number of professional women leaders (2005)
- Ranked first among universities on the National Customer Satisfaction Index (NSCI) in the overall evaluation category (1995, 2005)
Research
- Recognized for "Outstanding Programs of Specialization": Bio-science and International Development programs (Recognized for Core Competence Development Project Interdisciplinary Life Science and International Development programs Specialization Program on International Development Cooperation)
- Selected for "2006 National Core Research Center Project": Center for Cell Signalling & Drug Discovery Research
- Selected for a "Creative Research Project": Research Center of MEMS Space Telescope, Symbiosystem Research Center
- Selected for the "Humanities Korea Project": The Trans-Humanities Research Team
Students
- Ewha ranks 4th in the pass rate of the National Judicial Exam level 1
- Ewha students competed against students from around the world, and won top prize at the "Debate Asia" Competition
- An Ewha undergraduate student's paper was published in a leading international chemistry journal
- Lee Yun-jin a third-year student discovered the mechanism of oxygen-transmission protein
- Choi Yoo-Sun became the youngest panelist to debate at the World Economic Forum, "Davos Forum", debating with Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Prominent international society recognized an Ewhaian Winner of 2007 NIM A Young Scientist Award
- Park Na-hee, a physics student, participated in the "NASA Space Structure Research"
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