Underwood International College - Student and Faculty Body

Student and Faculty Body

UIC currently has approximately 700 registered students. The students of UIC are made up of mainly Korean students with experience living and studying abroad, but increasing numbers of non-Korean students have been admitted. UIC is the only English-based four-year degree program in Korea that has successfully attracted large numbers of non-Korean students to create a truly international and multi-cultural student body. The great diversity of the UIC student body is what makes this institution unique in Korea.

The faculty is composed of both full-time foreign professors and English-speaking Korean professors from the rest of Yonsei University. There are currently fifteen foreign professors within the UIC common curriculum who teach World History, World Literature, Critical Reasoning, Research Methods and Creative Writing. An additional nine foreign jointly-appointed professors join over a hundred Korean professors who teach in the various majors. Yonsei University plans to hire eventually more than thirty foreign professors to assist in the operation of both the UIC common curriculum and the UIC majors. The current Dean of UIC is Professor Hyung Ji Park.

Distinguished Visiting Faculty seminars are held regularly. Many notable Nobel Prize-winning professors have held intensive two-week courses at UIC, including Kurt Wüthrich.