M.S. and Ph.D. in Innovation
"Innovation through interdisciplinary education"
"Innovate to empower your community for the digital transformation"
What is our goal?
- Develop an interdisciplinary workforce with social, technological, and design innovation capabilities.
- Cultivate a quality workforce that empathizes with systemic social structures and actualizes social value creation through design and advanced technologies.
What is the background?
- Growing demand to prepare tomorrow's workforce for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which requires technical knowledge coupled with creativity and interdisciplinary thinking
- Lack of higher education institutions engaging in research and teaching in innovation despite Korea's emergence as a global innovation leader
- Unmet needs for communities of interdisciplinary — rather than multidisciplinary — researchers/educators
What are our strengths
- Humanities-based interdisciplinary research and education, integrating social, technological, and design innovations
- Student-driven research and learning that transcend disciplinary boundaries
- Successful co-teaching by interdisciplinary educators
- Curricula that embed innovation skills into solving real-world challenges by applying design thinking and using advanced technologies
Admissions Schedule (Estimated Timeline)
- Spring Admissions: October
- Fall Admissions: April
- Admissions Website : https://graduate.yonsei.ac.kr/graduate_en/admission/forein_fall_schedule.do
Contact
032-749-3762
uicinv@yonsei.ac.kr- Department of Innovation Website
- Underwood International College, Yonsei University 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 03722 Republic of Korea
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