Yonsei University kicked off its three-week international education program, Winter Abroad at Yonsei (WAY), on Friday, welcoming 1,400 students from 34 countries.
Almost 4,000 students relinquished their spots at the so-called SKY universities — Seoul National University (SNU), Yonsei University and Korea University — through the early admission track for 2025, data showed Wednesday.
The Seoul High Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal raised by Yonsei University, the making results of the leaked entrance exam valid.
Yonsei University will hold an extra round of early admissions entrance exams for natural sciences students next month following controversy over a leaked essay question that raised concerns about the validity of its previous exam.
As Yonsei deals with the fallout of an exam leak and Dongduk Women's University students protest against the university's discussions on allowing co-educational course enrollments, the Education Ministry said it would monitor both issues.
Seoul National University again topped The JoongAng University Rankings 2024, although Yonsei University closely followed with only a one-point difference.
While Yonsei University has appealed a court ruling suspending the evaluation of its leaked early admission exam, police identified an additional individual involved in leaking the test materials, bringing the total number of identified to three.
A court on Friday put a brake on Yonsei University’s further evaluation of leaked entrance tests, postponing the scheduled announcement of the 2025 freshmen for the natural science track, which was set for Dec. 13.
Yonsei University became a hub for cultural exchange on Thursday as international students gathered at a global fair celebrating diversity.
Yonsei University was the highest-ranked Korean university in the 2025 QS Asia University Rankings, with Korea emerging as the region with the most universities in the top 20.
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