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[YONSEI NEWS] The Graduate School Drawing Future Global Leaders to Yonsei

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2007-07-31

The Graduate School is changing. Internally it is reworking various systems to insure the satisfaction of the students, and externally it is working to promote the Global Leader Fellowship in order to secure qualified international students. As a result, the Graduate School has already surpassed its yearly goal for the Vision 2020 project. The most outstanding achievement is the increase in the number of international students, currently at 280 and higher than the projected goal of 260. This is nearly 2.5 times the number of students five years ago. In order to secure more international students and strengthen ties with international universities, the Graduate School is taking aggressive steps globally. Cooperation agreements were recently signed with the University of Jordan, Vietnam National University of Hanoi, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Min City, and Ulaanbaatar University (Mongolia). A previous agreement with the Mongolian University of Science and Technology, which was not in action was revived and reinforced. Also, the Graduate School is taking actions to invite students from all over the world, such as students from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, to come and study at Yonsei. In addition, the Graduate School is promoting a new global strategy called the “Global Leader Fellowship,” a policy to strategically support highly qualified students of developing countries. Students who are likely to become leaders in a nation’s politics, economy, society, and education are selected and given grants for tuition and living expenses. The students will be selected from only the best universities of each country. The selection will not be made not just among the students who have already applied to Yonsei; professors from each individual department will seek out students with high potential and recommend them for invitation by the Graduate School. The Global Leader Fellowship will have two tracks, the general program and the reeducation program. The general program will be for general graduate students and the reeducation program will be for social figures that are already active in their fields, such as government officials and university professors. The Graduate School has set a goal for maintaining 100 participants of the program each semester, and will begin the Global Leader Fellowship program in the Fall of 2007