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Sungkyunkwan University

Republic of KoreaAsia

#126

QS World University Rankings 2026

65.2

QS 2026 overall score

QS World University Rankings data

Ranking data

QS World University Rankings source

#126

QS World University Rankings 2026

#123

QS World University Rankings 2025

65.2

QS 2026 overall score

QS 2026 indicators

Indicator-level data

Each card keeps the QS 2026 score and rank separate. A missing value is not estimated.

Academic reputation

QS 2026 score
68.4
QS 2026 rank
#139

Employer reputation

QS 2026 score
75.6
QS 2026 rank
#125

Faculty-student ratio

QS 2026 score
83.8
QS 2026 rank
#149

Citations per faculty

QS 2026 score
62.3
QS 2026 rank
#269

International faculty ratio

QS 2026 score
24.2
QS 2026 rank
#659

International student ratio

QS 2026 score
57.6
QS 2026 rank
#359

International student diversity

QS 2026 score
61.6
QS 2026 rank
#326

International research network

QS 2026 score
49.5
QS 2026 rank
#801

Employment outcomes

QS 2026 score
44.2
QS 2026 rank
#400

Sustainability

QS 2026 score
74.7
QS 2026 rank
#243
University profile

About Sungkyunkwan University

Academic units and research systems create several routes through Sungkyunkwan University

Sungkyunkwan University presents academic units across humanities, social sciences, economics, business, education, arts, natural sciences, information and communication, software convergence, engineering, pharmacy, biotechnology, sport science, medicine, and graduate schools. This range provides an initial disciplinary map, yet it cannot function as a reliable catalogue of wholly interchangeable research opportunities. A question about computation might belong in information and communication, software convergence, engineering, or a science setting depending on the method and system involved. A biological question might require biotechnology, pharmacy, medicine, or another unit. The research object must determine which public route is worth examining more closely.

The university's research navigation gives a second map through research stories, researcher search, a research-output portal, research institutes, support material, research ethics, and industry-academia cooperation. These are different forms of evidence. A research story can give an example of a question; a researcher record can show a specialist area; an output portal can show published work; an institute can provide an organisational home; and an ethics page can show a shared process. A reliable profile keeps the functions separate and uses the most direct local record to establish a research connection.

Research records, institutes, and ethics information answer different questions

Sungkyunkwan University's public research material refers to platforms such as Pure and ScholarX alongside researcher search and campus research institutes. These tools can be read in sequence. A search result may identify a person or keyword. An output record can reveal how a topic has been studied. An institute page can show a continuing context. The combination is useful for checking whether a topic is more than a passing reference. It is still necessary to avoid a shortcut from an output title to a claim about current activity. A current group or institute page is needed to show the present research setting.

The same public material makes research ethics, institutional review processes, intellectual property, technology transfer, and collaboration pathways visible. This helps a reader understand that research has organisational and ethical layers around the work itself. It does not tell us that every project uses the same approval process, partner, or transfer route. For a topic involving people, health-related data, technical systems, or commercial use, identify the relevant research group first. Then use the university-level process pages only to explain the broader context that is actually relevant to the question.

Use the SKKU public record to test one specific connection

A practical Sungkyunkwan University note should state one research problem, its main evidence type, and its closest academic home. The evidence might be a software system, device, chemical process, biological mechanism, clinical dataset, social organisation, historical source, or creative practice. Locate a researcher, institute, or output that speaks directly to that object, then add the school or college that supplies the disciplinary setting. This approach works for a cross-disciplinary question too, because it requires each connection to be explained rather than assumed from a university-wide list of subjects.

End by showing the remaining gap. A researcher profile may fit the topic while the active group is unclear. An institute may carry a relevant name without revealing the exact methods or current line of work. A publication record may show prior expertise but not a present project. Those are sensible boundaries for a public profile. Sungkyunkwan University offers research stories, discovery tools, institute pages, and process information that can be combined carefully. The result should be a short evidence trail toward a defined research setting, not a broad impression based on the scale of the institution.

Institution record

Country
Republic of Korea
Region
Asia
Status
Private not for Profit
QS size code
L
Profile record updated
October 31, 2025

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