QS ranking profile
Kyung Hee University
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- QS 2026 rank
- #331
- Down 3 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #328
- Overall score
- 42.5
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QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Large
- About 12,000 to 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Focused
- Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Asia
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About Kyung Hee University
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
Kyung Hee University brings research across medicine, technology, society, arts, and culture into view
Kyung Hee University presents research through medical science, research centres, research institutions, affiliated and national research centres, major research projects, research support, and a research portal. Its public material also describes academic work across humanities, social science, natural science, engineering, fine arts and sports, and medicine. This range gives a reader several possible routes through a question that is not purely technical or purely social. A health question can involve medical evidence, social conditions, policy, data, and communication. A technology question can involve computation, engineering, culture, design, law, or human behaviour. The central map signals breadth, but it does not establish which local unit studies a particular object or how it studies it.
The university describes a form of convergence education that connects professional and general knowledge with life and space sciences, and with humans and civilisation. This is helpful as an institutional account of cross-disciplinary work. It cannot establish that every question already has a shared laboratory, project, or team. A clear research search starts elsewhere: name the phenomenon, setting, and evidence needed. That might be clinical information, a physical measurement, a dataset, an environmental observation, an archival source, a policy record, an interview, a technical prototype, or a cultural artefact. Once the evidence is explicit, the closest research centre or college is easier to identify.
Five connective clusters offer a thematic map, not a claim about every research activity
Kyung Hee's research page names five Connective Cooperation Clusters: Biohealth, Future Science, Civilization, Arts and Culture, and Social Physical Education. These headings are helpful for seeing how the university publicly groups areas of concern. They do not explain the precise research object, method, or active work behind every topic. Biohealth can point toward biological, clinical, behavioural, or information-based questions. Future Science can involve physical systems, computing, materials, energy, or other fields. Civilization and Arts and Culture may involve documents, creative practice, history, philosophy, communities, or communication. Social Physical Education can bring together movement, health, society, learning, and policy. A reader needs a local record before drawing a narrow conclusion from a cluster title.
The research portal is presented as a route to information about professors, departments, and colleges. This is especially useful after a question has been broken into smaller parts. For a proposed topic, record the object being studied, the unit that appears closest, and the source of evidence required. If the question involves physical activity, distinguish performance data from social or educational data. If it concerns a medical problem, distinguish clinical observation from molecular evidence or health-policy documentation. If it concerns culture or civilisation, distinguish texts, artefacts, language, and community practice. Such distinctions prevent a broad connective theme from becoming a loose and untestable match.
A Kyung Hee research connection remains open until a local page confirms it
For Kyung Hee University, write the research interest as a question with a visible object. It could concern a health condition, a material, a digital system, an environmental process, a cultural practice, a historical record, a learning setting, or a social institution. Then name the material that could examine the question, whether samples, images, measurements, code, documents, interviews, observations, experimental results, or a designed system. Search the portal and centre structure with those terms. The result should be a short list of local units that use comparable language, not an assumption based only on the university's broad academic reach.
A final reading of the closest official page protects the accuracy of the profile. A centre may have several unrelated activities, and a university-wide theme may change over time. If the local page identifies a topic and a method, that detail can support a clear statement. If it identifies only the theme, keep the connection provisional. Questions about present projects, equipment, data, or individual research interests need their own current evidence. This way of reading Kyung Hee's public structure is both practical and restrained: it uses the university's visible research map while preserving the difference between an institutional theme and a confirmed local research link.