Welcome to the School of Information and Communication Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. Our outstanding faculty, facilities and programs allow us to provide the highest quality education covering all important fields in information and communication engineering and science.

Today, we have approximately 1,100 full-time undergraduate and 300 graduate students (230 in Master Degree program and 70 Ph.D. program) including 43 graduate students from Samsung Electronics (Semiconductor Division) Joint Program.

Our faculty pool is truly impressive. Every member holds doctorate awarded from renowned international/domestic academic institutions. Among them, 2 members were elected as a chairperson of prestigious journals; several members hold chief editorial positions of high quality engineering and science journals. Also, many have received distinguished national teaching and research award.

In 2000 our school launched a collaborative project with the Semiconductor Division at Samsung Electronics, which has led to the initiation of degree programs and several agreements on follow-up cooperation. We are planning to extend the project to other selected Divisions in Samsung Electronics and relevant Industries.

The School of Information and Communication Engineering is located in a beautiful, garden style campus, which is in 30-minute commute distance from the center of the capital city, Seoul. The calm and nice setting inside the campus and the vicinity also provides the students with high quality school life and extracurricular activities.

In its ongoing effort for maintaining its role as a leading academic institution of Korea, the School seeks to continuously improve its teaching and research facility, as well as its organization to make the teaching and research program as enjoyable and fruitful as possible. For this, we are hiring about five to ten new faculty members each year.

Since 1998 (the year of 600th anniversary)-- through intensive outreach to middle- and high school communities and various attractive scholarship programs -- we have significantly increased the freshman enrollment while also improving the average aptitude test score and the class ranking of incoming freshmen. We are also deeply committed to diversify our student and faculty pool, and recruit and retain individuals from traditionally under-represented populations. Moreover, we continue to expand our infrastructure, space for classrooms, research labs and offices since last several years while renovating existing facilities to ensure they are truly state-of-the-art.

It is my hope that all the students who study at the Sungkyunkwan University explore the new frontiers and opportunities, which enables them to put a bridge between such interdisciplinary research areas of information and telecommunication. Now, explore our web site http://icc.skku.ac.kr and learn more on the School of Information and Communication Engineering at the Sungkyunkwan University.

Best Wishes,

Dean of the School of Information and Communication Engineering
Dong-Ryeol Shin, Ph.D.