Analyzing the Current States of Universities' Interdisciplinary Fields and Influential Factors Impacting on the Fields

Abstract

We analyzed current states of the interdisciplinary academic fields that universities specialized for their strengthening disciplines and competitiveness. In results, we found the interdisciplinary areas were different from each university by their college type, institution type, location, size, whether they have engineering school and medical school and etc. Especially, the interdisciplinary area were various across their discipline field, their participation rate, and ratio between general discipline areas and interdisciplinary areas. For example, universities of Korea have specialized their interdisciplinary areas by mechanics, medicine, IT, electronics, culture and arts, as well as agriculture. However, some universities such as small size and no engineering school have been little interested in specializing interdisciplinary areas. Received (February 16, 2015), Review request (February 17, 2015), Review Result (March 04, 2015) Accepted (March 26, 2015), Published (April 30, 2015) 140-742 School of General Education for Leadership, Sookmyung Women's University, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, korea email: kcueleeg@nate.com (Corresponding Author) 140-742 , Graduate School of Human Resource Development for Women, Sookmyung Women's University, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, korea email: ymlee@sookmyung.ac.kr Analyzing the Current States of Universities' Interdisciplinary Fields and Influential Factors Impacting on the Fields Copyright c 2015 HSST 168