Howon University is a private four-year comprehensive

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located in

Gunsan Gunsan (), also romanized as Kunsan, is a city in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. It is on the south bank of the Geum River just upstream from its exit into the Yellow Sea. It has emerged as a high-tech manufacturing industrial city and an in ...

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. It is renowned for its high employment rate for its graduates.

History

Established in 1977 as Gunsan Industrial College, it was elevated to a university in 1998. For two consecutive years in 2009 and 2010, Howon University received a government funding amounting to US$5.4 million, as it was selected as a participant by the Ministry of Education for Korea's Educational Capability Improvement Project. In 2013, the Ministry of Education of Korea certified Howon as the university with the highest recent graduates' employment rate in the whole country. In 2014, Howon placed second.

Organization

There are six faculties and nine research institutes in Howon.

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References

External links

Howon University Official Website
Gunsan Private universities and colleges in South Korea Universities and colleges in North Jeolla Province {{SouthKorea-university-stub