Seoul National University (SNU), colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae (μμΈλ), is a national research university in Seoul, Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National has served as a model for many national and public universities in the country. Today the university comprises sixteen colleges and six professional schools, and a student body of about thirty-thousand. It has two campuses in Seoul: the main campus in Gwanak, and the medical campus in Jongno. According to data compiled by KEDI, the university spends more on its students per capita than any other university in the country enrolling at least ten-thousand undergraduates, more than one-and-one-half times its peer institutions.
The university maintains an undergraduate exchange program with the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Stanford University, and Yale University, and both SNU Law School and Harvard Law School students may study at the partner institution for credit. In addition, the university holds a memorandum of understanding with over 700 academic institutions in 40 countries, including the country's first ever general academic exchange program with the University of Pennsylvania. The Graduate School of Business offers dual master's degrees with Duke University, ESSEC, and the Peking University, double-degrees at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Yale School of Management, and MBA-, MS-, and PhD-candidate exchange programs with universities in ten countries on four continents. The university's international headcount is 242 or four percent of the total. Nobel laureates Paul Crutzen, Thomas Sargent, and Fields Medal recipient Hironaka Heisuke are on the faculty roster.
Seoul National is ranked 20th in the world in publications in a 2008 analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 4th in Asia by the 2012 QS Asian University Rankings, 37th in the world by the 2012 QS World University Rankings, and 8th in Asia and 59th in the world by the 2012 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2009, the Ecole des Mines de Paris - MINES Paris Tech reported that Seoul National is ranked 5th in the world in terms of the number of alumni currently holding CEO positions in Fortune 500 enterprises.
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