Gachon University Selected as a Leading Graduate School for Early Employment Contract Departments

Gachon University

Gachon University was selected on the 30th for the Ministry of Education's 'Early Employment-Type Contract Graduate School Leading University Development Project.' The project budget is a total of 7.2 billion KRW over three years.

This project aims to simultaneously achieve graduate school enrollment and early employment for youth, supplying customized high-level talent to small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-sized companies in advanced industrial fields.

To this end, Gachon University will establish a Department of Next-Generation Semiconductor Studies in its graduate school and will admit its first batch of students in March next year. Recruitment of new students will begin in the second half of this year. Gachon University has gathered opinions from semiconductor field experts and conducted a curriculum demand survey targeting participating companies to develop a practical education program based on business demand, operating two tracks: semiconductor design and semiconductor engineering majors.

For this purpose, Gachon University has signed agreements with 16 outstanding small and medium-sized enterprises with excellent growth potential and mid-sized semiconductor companies. Agreements with 34 companies are currently underway. Through this, students jointly selected by the university and companies will be supplied to partner companies through customized education tailored to corporate needs and industry-academia joint research. The plan is to produce 260 master's level high-skilled personnel by 2030.

President Gil-yeo Lee of Gachon University stated, "Gachon University has experience operating various types of contract departments from undergraduate to graduate levels by establishing educational infrastructure such as practical education programs based on corporate needs analysis." He added, "We will actively utilize the strengths of the Ministry of Education's semiconductor-specialized university and foster customized high-level talent in the semiconductor field through close cooperation with companies."