GIST to receive ‘Excellent’ grade for three consecutive years,
- MSIP to announce 2013 National R&D Performance Evaluation on 30^th
    - Excellent management result:7^th in QS World University Ranking, MoU with Caltech
    Only ‘Excellent’ among three science & technology institutes

 

 

 

□ Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology(GIST, President   Young Joon Kim) has received ‘Excellent’ grade in the ‘2013 National Research & Development Performance Evaluation’ conducted by Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (here after as MSIP). This is the three consecutive years of achievement as the institute was also given the ‘Excellent’ level in 2011 and 2012.

❍ In particular, GIST is the only Institute of Science and Technology that was evaluated as ‘Excellent’ among GIST, KAIST and DGIST which are directly governed by MSIP, proving its excellence in education and research implementation capabilities.

 

□ The criteria of ‘National Research & Development Performance Evaluation’ conducted by MSIP can be divided into 1) evaluation of government-sponsored research organization 2) evaluation of national research & development projects and 3) special evaluation.

 

□ Twenty-year old GIST has been assessed as ‘Excellent’ due to reasonable leadership of President Young Joon Kim who came into office in June last year, operation of the organization focused on excellence, and education & research policy focused on ‘a few selected students’ and stringent research performance evaluation system of the school.

❍ In particular, GIST showed noteworthy management result last year, being ranked the seventh in the paper citation counts per professor by QS World University Ranking. This is the highest ranking in its history and the school has ranked the top among Asian Universities for five consecutive years. It has signed an MoU with California Institute of Technology (Caltech), world’s leading technology university, for educational and research cooperation.

❍ In addition, research results were well recognized such as starting joint research, establishing a joint research center with Caltech and setting up a research group for GIST campus of Institute of Basic Science of International Science & Business Belt.

 

□ Meanwhile, the MSIP’s announcement of management result shows among 36 organizations that were assessed, only eight have received ‘Excellent’ level including GIST (22.2%), while 23 were given ‘average’ (63.9%) and 5 ‘below average’ (13.9%). The result shows ‘Excellent’ proportion has fallen by 6.4% while ‘below average’ increases 5.3% compared to the previous year, according to MSIP.