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Soonchunhyang University?

 
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thecount



Joined: 10 Nov 2009
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:01 am    Post subject: Soonchunhyang University? Reply with quote
Does anyone have any information on it, other than rather neutral information I can find off the net?

Any experience working there? Acquaintances?
Rumors?

I'd sure like to know a lot more about the place before I lend it my fullest consideration, but I only have one friend in Korea right now, and he had never heard of the place. Couldn't even find it with the search feature here.

Thanks in advance,
~Ben
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KoreanAmbition



Joined: 03 Feb 2008
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just to let you know... I think there's 174 universities in Korea according to a ranking I saw about a month ago.

Based on that, there's a lot of universities Koreans don't even know exist..... Smile ... but they do.
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thecount



Joined: 10 Nov 2009
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm aware of this; I have found Soonchunhyang ranked 61st out of the 174 at http://www.4icu.org/kr/

But I was hoping that, with the accumulated knowledge of all these old-hands on this board, someone would know something, or know someone who did know something. Rankings are nebulous and arbitrary, I'm really looking for someone's first-hand experience.
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zappadelta



Joined: 31 Aug 2004
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I got an offer from them a couple years ago. Turned it down because the pay and hours couldn't compare to my current job. Just know that it's in Asan, kind of a dumpy place.
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fortysixyou



Joined: 08 Jun 2006
PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm an expert.


Ask away.
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Konglishman



Joined: 14 Sep 2007
Location: Nanjing
PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
thecount wrote:
I'm aware of this; I have found Soonchunhyang ranked 61st out of the 174 at http://www.4icu.org/kr/

But I was hoping that, with the accumulated knowledge of all these old-hands on this board, someone would know something, or know someone who did know something. Rankings are nebulous and arbitrary, I'm really looking for someone's first-hand experience.


And rankings based purely on internet popularity are probably the most arbitrary...
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naturegirl321



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I just got a job offer from them. I interviewed in mid-November, maybe someone just dropped out?
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
PM me
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
thecount wrote:
I'm aware of this; I have found Soonchunhyang ranked 61st out of the 174 at http://www.4icu.org/kr/

But I was hoping that, with the accumulated knowledge of all these old-hands on this board, someone would know something, or know someone who did know something. Rankings are nebulous and arbitrary, I'm really looking for someone's first-hand experience.


Thosed rankings ar based on public school teachers who work for SCHU, but don't work at SCHU.
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Goon-Yang



Joined: 28 May 2009
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
fortysixyou wrote:
I'm an expert.


Ask away.


I know you Smile
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hajima 99



Joined: 13 Jun 2009
PostPosted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Goon-Yang wrote:
thecount wrote:
I'm aware of this; I have found Soonchunhyang ranked 61st out of the 174 at http://www.4icu.org/kr/

But I was hoping that, with the accumulated knowledge of all these old-hands on this board, someone would know something, or know someone who did know something. Rankings are nebulous and arbitrary, I'm really looking for someone's first-hand experience.


Thosed rankings ar based on public school teachers who work for SCHU, but don't work at SCHU.


As a previous poster pointed out, that particular site's ranking is based solely on the number of clicks on each university's website, and not on reputation, quality of education, nor level of services provided. Could you get a weaker criteria for rating universities? Terrible.

Case and point: Forget Harvard, Yale, Oxford; the Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico is the second-highest ranked university in the world. Wow, who'd of thunk. Must be a great website.
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Hyeon Een



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