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{{Short description|South Korean university}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Pohang University of Science and Technology
 | native_name            = {{lang|ko|포항공과대학교}}
 | image_name             = POSTECH emblem.svg
 | image_size             = 150px
 | motto                  = {{lang|ko|성실, 창의, 진취}}
 | mottoeng               = Integrity, Creativity, and Aspiration
 | established            = {{Start date and age|1986|12|03}}
 | type                   = [[Private school|Private]] [[research university]]
 | head_label             = President <!-- change as needed; old template said President -->
 | head                   = Seong Keun Kim ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김성근 (화학자)|ko]]}})
 | city                   = [[Pohang]]
 | state                  = [[Gyeongbuk Province]]
 | country                = [[South Korea]]
 | faculty                = 283 (2018)<ref name="postech">{{cite web|title=About POSTECH |work=POSTECH Official website |publisher=POSTECH |url=http://www.postech.ac.kr/about-postech/introduction-to-postech/status/ |access-date=12 December 2018}}</ref>
 | students               = 3,581 (2018)<ref name="postech"/>
 | undergrad              = 1,422 (2018)<ref name="postech"/>
 | postgrad               = 2,159 (2018)<ref name="postech"/>
 | campus                 = [[Urban area|Urban]]
 | colors                 = Red, orange, and grey
<br/>{{color box|#c80150}} {{color box|#ffb300}} {{color box|#66665c}}
 | mascot                 = Postech Ponix (Phoenix)
 | free_label             = 
 | free                   = 
 | website                = {{URL|https://postech.ac.kr/}}
 | module                 = {{Infobox Korean name
| hangul = 포항공과대학교 / 포스텍
| hanja  = 浦項工科大學校 / 포스텍 
| rr = Pohang Gonggwa Daehakgyo / Poseutek 
| mr = P'ohang Kongkwa Taehakkyo / P'osŭt'ek
| child  = yes}}
 | logo                   = [[Image:POSTECH logo.svg|250px]]
}}

'''Pohang University of Science and Technology''' ('''POSTECH''', {{Korean|hangul=포항공과대학교|hanja=|rr=Pohang Gonggwa Daehakgyo}}) is a [[private university|private]] [[research university]] in [[Pohang]], South Korea.

== History==
[[File:Margaret Thatcher visits POSTECH.jpg|thumb|alt=Margaret Thatcher visits POSTECH|Margaret Thatcher with POSTECH president Hogil Kim in May 1986]]

Pohang University of Science and Technology was established on December 3, 1986, by [[POSCO]], a South Korean steel company, with Founding Chairman [[Park Tae-joon|Tae-joon Park]] and the university’s first president, Hogil Kim.<ref name="elibrary.worldbank.org">{{cite web |url=https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2357|title=The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities|work=The World Bank September 2011|access-date=April 17, 2014}}</ref> The university was founded as a research-focused institution and also hosted POSCO’s Research Institute of Science and Technology (RIST) on campus. In 1994, POSTECH established the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), a third-generation synchrotron light source, which later became a national research facility. In 2016, the university completed construction of the PAL-XFEL ([[X-ray]] [[Free-electron laser|Free Electron Laser]]), a fourth-generation light source, at a cost of approximately USD 390 million. PAL-XFEL was the third facility of its kind in the world at the time of completion, intended to support research in various fields including life sciences, materials science, chemistry, and physics.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3024347 |title= Korea builds advanced particle accelerator |last= Seo |first= Ji-eun |date= 30 September 2016 |website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]] |access-date= 19 May 2020 }}</ref>

The university held its first matriculation ceremony on March 5, 1987. The Department of [[List of life sciences|Life Sciences]] was founded on March 1, 1989. The first [[Master's degree|master's degrees]] were conferred on February 7, 1990, and the first [[Bachelor's degree|bachelor's degrees]] on February 20, 1991. The Pohang Light Source was completed on December 7, 1994. In 1998, Asiaweek Magazine ranked POSTECH first among science and technology universities in [[Asia]]. On February 28, 2000, the university, in collaboration with the City of Pohang and POSCO, established the Pohang Techno Park. The Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics relocated to POSTECH on August 23, 2001. The university was recognized by the [[Ministry of Education (South Korea)|Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development]] as an “Excellent University for Educational Reform” for seven consecutive years starting in the late 1990s. The Tae-joon Park [[Digital library|Digital Library]] opened on April 25, 2003. The Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology (GIFT) was established on September 9, 2005, followed by the National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology on May 30, 2007.

On March 2, 2010, POSTECH announced its bilingual campus initiative. An agreement with the [[Max Planck]] Society was signed on June 14, 2010, to establish the Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative. On September 16 of the same year, [[Times Higher Education]] ranked POSTECH 28th in its [[Times Higher Education World University Rankings|World University Rankings]]. The Department of Creative [[Software engineering|IT Engineering]] was created on July 6, 2011, and the Graduate School of Engineering Mastership was established on August 20, 2012. In December 2012, POSTECH was included in Thomson Reuters’ list of the Top 100 Global Innovators. The Tae-joon Park Institute opened on February 15, 2013, and the groundbreaking ceremony for PAL-XFEL took place on May 9, 2013. On June 13, four research centers under the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) were established at the university.

POSTECH was ranked first among the top 100 universities under 50 years old by Times Higher Education in 2012, 2013, and 2014. It was also ranked first in the [[JoongAng Ilbo]] Korean University Rankings in both 2013 and 2014. The POSTECH Entrepreneurship Center, supported by the Small & Medium [[Business administration|Business Administration]], opened on September 15, 2014. The APGC-Lab and a startup company, exBrain, were launched on September 19. On December 17, 2014, the Pohang Center for Creative Economy & Innovation opened. On June 4, 2016, PAL-XFEL achieved first light, marking the start of its operational phase.

==Campus==
[[File:Performance at Tae-joon Park Library.jpg|thumb|right|Traditional Korean performance at Tae-Joon Park Library]]POSTECH is a 400-acre campus located twenty minutes by car from downtown [[Pohang]], an hour by bus from [[Busan]], and approximately two and half hours by train (KTX) from [[Seoul]].
===Tae-Joon Park Digital Library===
Completed in 2003, the Tae-Joon Park Library is 24,420 square meters with 352,977 volumes and 8,324 digital and paper journals. As of 2005, the library collection consists of approximately 320,000 books, 3,500 journals, 7,000 e-journals 25 databases, and 4,400 multimedia materials. The Library shares materials with industrial-educational-research cooperation and is part of an intercollegiate data exchange program with approximately 150 other research and educational institutions throughout the nation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://library.postech.ac.kr/htdocs/introduction/introduction.php?command=DETAIL | title=Introduction | publisher=Tae-Joon Park Digital Library | year=2005 | access-date=April 17, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227235057/http://library.postech.ac.kr/htdocs/introduction/introduction.php?command=DETAIL | archive-date=February 27, 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Smart campus===
In 2010, for the first time among Korean universities, POSTECH implemented a Desktop Cloud Service. However, many of the previously implemented technological services (e.g. campus smartphone applications, university website, university online portal, etc.) are defective as they have not been since updated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwwhome.postech.ac.kr/web/eng/eclf_01_07|title=Smart Campus|work=POSTECH Website|access-date=October 1, 2013}}</ref>

== Presidents ==
{|class=wikitable
|-
!Number
!Name
!Years in office

|-
| 1 || Hogil Kim  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김호길|ko]]}})  || 1985-1994
|-
| 2 || Sooyoung Chang || 1994-1998 
|-
| 3 || Sungkee Chang || 1998-2002 
|-
| 4 || Chanmo Park  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:박찬모|ko]]}})  || 2003-2007 
|-
| 5 || Sunggi Baik  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:백성기|ko]]}})  || 2007-2011 
|-
| 6 || Yongmin Kim  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김용민 (과학자)|ko]]}})  || 2011–2015
|-
| 7 || Doh-Yeon Kim  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김도연 (1952년)|ko]]}})  || 2015–2019
|-
| 8 || Moo Hwan Kim  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김무환 (공학자)|ko]]}})  || 2019–2023
|-
| 9 || Seong Keun Kim  ({{lang|ko|[[:ko:김성근 (화학자)|ko]]}})  || 2023–Present
|-
|}
== University rankings ==
{{Infobox South Korean university ranking
| QS_N = 5
| THE_N = 5
| ARWU_N = 7–8
| LINE_1 = 0
| QS_A = 22
| QS_WA = 
| THE_A = 24
| ARWU_A = 
| USNWR_A = 92
| LINE_2 = 0
| THE_W = 151
| USNWR_W = =380
| QS_W = 102
| ARWU_W = 301–400
}}

In 1998, POSTECH was ranked by ''[[Asiaweek]]'' as the best science and technology university in Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/98/0515/cs3.html|title=Ahead of the curve: Asia's science and technology institutes mix students and success|work=Asiaweek May 15, 1998|access-date=July 6, 2005}}</ref> From 2002 to 2006 ''[[JoongAng Ilbo]]'' ranked POSTECH as the leading university in Korea. In 2010, the [[Times Higher Education]] ranked POSTECH 28th in the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-11/world-ranking|title=Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2010-2011|date=2015-04-13}}</ref> In 2011, the ''[[Times Higher Education]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html|title=Times Higher Education's 2011-2012 World University Rankings}}</ref> ranked the university as the 53rd best university in the world, the 6th best in Asia, and the best in South Korea. In 2017–2018, [[QS World University Rankings]] ranked POSTECH 71st overall in the world. It remains third best ranked in Korea, after [[Seoul National University]] and [[KAIST]], in the QS Asian University Rankings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-university-rankings/2012 |title=QS Asian University Rankings: Overall in 2012 |publisher=Quacquarelli Symonds |year=2012 |access-date=2012-07-06}}</ref> However, in the ''Times Higher Education'' rankings, it scored highly after compilers placed less emphasis on "reputation and heritage" and gave more weight to objective measures including the influence of universities' research, placing 53rd.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdGZ2dkdSX1FLZEpYejJTX3h0cnRFYnc&hl=en#gid=0 |title = Times Higher Education world top 200 universities}}</ref> In 2012 and 2013, the ''Times Higher Education'' ranked POSTECH 1st in its "100 Under 50 Young Universities" rankings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/one-hundred-under-fifty|title=Times Higher Education's 100 Under 50 Universities 2013|date=2015-04-13}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/world/asia/whos-the-next-mit.html?_r=0|title=Who's the Next M.I.T.?|work=New York Times June 4, 2012|access-date=April 11, 2014|date=2012-06-04|last1=Lau|first1=Joyce}}</ref>  and the ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/world/asia/korean-institute-tops-list-of-younger-universities.html|title=Korean Institute Tops List of Younger Universities |work=IHT June 25, 2013|access-date=April 11, 2014|date=2013-06-24 |last1=Yang |first1=Calvin }}</ref> cited POSTECH's rapid ascent as a young university to top the world rankings in less than 50 years.

==Academics==

===Admissions===
POSTECH admits approximately 300 undergraduate students each year. POSTECH received 1,987 applicants for freshman admission and admitted 323 for the 2014 school year. POSTECH provides the highest educational investment and the most per-student scholarship support in Korea, allowing students from all economic backgrounds the opportunity to obtain a POSTECH education.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/09/23/2008092361008.html|title=POSTECH Spent Most Money on Students|work=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] September 23, 2008|access-date=September 30, 2013}}</ref>

==Research==

The 4th generation light source (PAL-XFEL), which has been operational since 2015, is 10 billion times brighter than the 3rd generation light source.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3024347 |title= Korea builds advanced particle accelerator |last= Seo |first= Ji-eun |date= 30 September 2016 |website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]] |access-date= 31 January 2019 }}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://www.postech.edu/ Official site]

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