About Pusan National University:

Pusan National University (PNU), also called Busan National University, is one of the ten national Universities in South Korea. Located mainly in Busan (or Pusan), the university's English name is a translation of its former Korean name, "Gungnip Pusan Daehakgyo", but has since dropped "national" from its Korean moniker. Pusan National University was founded as a two-year college in 1946 and became a regular four year university in 1953. The University started initially with just two faculties, the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Fisheries. It now compriseds fifteen colleges, one independent division, one general graduate school, four professional graduate schools and five special graduate schools.



World University Rankings

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Chemical Engineering 152 131 149 146 143 154 158 172 186 204 216 245 225 290
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Materials Science 188 151 146 182 166 148 137 154 164 156 161 169 202 251
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