Private Universities in South Korea

Abstract

are religious and 20 are not). As in Japan, tuition is the major source of funding, and costs students about $17,000 per year plus an additional $7,000 for room and board. Endowments and gifts or donations are also important sources of income for institutions. The prototypical U.S. institution enrolls on average 1,246 undergraduates and 520 graduate students (if it offers graduate programs). Enrollments have either increased or remained the same over the last five years. Regarding academic interests, American students are a blend of their Indian and Japanese counterparts; the most popular fields of study at the prototypical U.S. institution are business, psychology, education, English, biology, and nursing. In terms of the professoriate, the average American institution employs 92 full-time faculty, 63 percent of whom are women. In addition, it employs 76 part-timers, among whom the proportion of women is almost identical to that of the full-time faculty (65 percent). The student/faculty ratio is 11:1, and 73 percent of upper-level managers are women.