Pohang University of Science and Technology

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) is a private research university in Pohang, in North Gyeongsang Province of South Korea, founded on 3 December 1986 by the steelmaker POSCO at the initiative of its founding chairman Park Tae-joon.浦项科技大学（Pohang University of Science and Technology，简称 POSTECH）是位于韩国庆尚北道浦项市的私立研究型大学，由钢铁企业 POSCO 发起创办，1986 年 12 月 3 日正式成立，创始主席为朴泰俊。

POSTECH deliberately keeps small undergraduate cohorts of about three hundred a year, runs an unusually large graduate body, launched a bilingual campus policy on 2 March 2010, and ranked 106th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings with a score of 67.7.POSTECH 刻意把本科招生规模控制在每年约 300 人，研究生规模相对庞大，并于 2010 年 3 月 2 日启动双语校园政策，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中以 67.7 分位列第 106。

History

• In May 1985 Margaret Thatcher, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, visited the building site and presented the school with an Inmos microprocessor computer, one of the most advanced machines of its day, an endorsement that helped secure the founding.1985 年 5 月，英国首相玛格丽特·撒切尔到访校址并向学校赠送一台 Inmos 晶体管电脑，那是当时最先进的机器之一，这一背书帮助学校最终落地。

• POSCO founded the university on 3 December 1986 with a donation of about 1.2 billion US dollars, and Park Tae-joon modelled the school on the California Institute of Technology, taking its low student-faculty ratio, high share of graduate students, low net tuition and residential campus as the blueprint.浦项集团以约 12 亿美元捐资于 1986 年 12 月 3 日创办该校，朴泰俊参照加州理工学院筹建，借鉴其低师生比、高研究生比例、低净学费与住校式校园的模式。

• The first matriculation ceremony was held on 5 March 1987, and the university hosted the Research Institute of Science and Technology of POSCO on its campus, so that the steelmaker's applied laboratories sat beside the teaching departments from the start.首届入学典礼于 1987 年 3 月 5 日举行，浦项集团自身的科学技术研究院同时设于校内，企业应用实验室自始与教学院系比邻而居。

• The Department of Life Sciences was founded on 1 March 1989, and the first master's degrees were conferred on 7 February 1990, with the first bachelor's degrees following on 20 February 1991.生命科学系于 1989 年 3 月 1 日设立，首届硕士学位于 1990 年 2 月 7 日授予，首届学士学位于 1991 年 2 月 20 日授予。

• In 1994 the university established the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, and the Pohang Light Source was completed on 7 December 1994 as a third-generation synchrotron, later turned into a national research facility open to outside users.1994 年学校设立浦项加速器实验室，浦项光源于 1994 年 12 月 7 日建成，为第三代同步辐射装置，其后转为面向校外用户的国家研究设施。

• In 1998 Asiaweek Magazine ranked POSTECH first among the science and technology universities of Asia, an early sign that a school barely twelve years old could outrank much older institutions.1998 年《亚洲周刊》将 POSTECH 列为亚洲科技类大学之首，这所创办仅十余年的学校由此首次压过众多历史更悠久的院校。

• From the late 1990s the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development named POSTECH an Excellent University for Educational Reform for seven consecutive years, a run that helped lock in its reputation for teaching quality.自 1990 年代末起，韩国教育人力资源部连续七年将 POSTECH 评为「教育改革优秀大学」，这一连评帮助其教学口碑固化。

• On 28 February 2000 the university, the City of Pohang and POSCO jointly established the Pohang Techno Park, giving companies a place on campus to commercialise research done in adjacent laboratories.2000 年 2 月 28 日，学校与浦项市、浦项集团共同设立浦项科技园，为企业提供在校内转化邻近实验室科研成果的场所。

• The Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics relocated to POSTECH on 23 August 2001, giving the campus an international institute of theoretical physics and drawing visiting scholars from across the Asia-Pacific region.亚太理论物理中心于 2001 年 8 月 23 日迁入 POSTECH，为校园带来一个国际性的理论物理研究机构，并吸引亚太地区访问学者。

• The Tae-joon Park Digital Library opened on 25 April 2003, and the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology was established on 9 September 2005 to work with POSCO on steel and iron processes.朴泰俊数字图书馆于 2003 年 4 月 25 日开馆，钢铁技术研究生院于 2005 年 9 月 9 日成立，与浦项集团合作研究钢铁与冶金工艺。

• The National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology followed on 30 May 2007, concentrating the university's nanotechnology effort in a single national-level institute rather than scattering it across departments.国家纳米材料技术研究所于 2007 年 5 月 30 日成立，把学校的纳米技术研究力量集中于一个国家级研究所，而非分散在各院系。

• The year 2010 brought three milestones, a bilingual campus initiative announced on 2 March, an agreement with the Max Planck Society signed on 14 June to create the Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative, and a Times Higher Education world rank of 28 on 16 September.2010 年学校迎来三个里程碑，3 月 2 日宣布双语校园计划，6 月 14 日与马克斯·普朗克学会签署协议共建马克斯·普朗克 POSTECH 韩国研究中心，9 月 16 日《泰晤士高等教育》世界排名第 28 位。

• The Department of Creative IT Engineering was created on 6 July 2011, the Graduate School of Engineering Mastership was established on 20 August 2012, and in December 2012 POSTECH entered the Thomson Reuters list of the Top 100 Global Innovators.创意 IT 工程系于 2011 年 7 月 6 日设立，工程与管理硕士研究生院于 2012 年 8 月 20 日成立，2012 年 12 月 POSTECH 入选汤森路透全球创新百强榜。

• The Tae-joon Park Institute opened on 15 February 2013, ground was broken for the PAL-XFEL free-electron laser on 9 May 2013, and four research centres of the Institute for Basic Science were established at the university on 13 June.朴泰俊研究所于 2013 年 2 月 15 日揭牌，PAL-XFEL 自由电子激光于 2013 年 5 月 9 日动工，6 月 13 日四个基础科学研究院研究中心落地该校。

• In 2014 the POSTECH Entrepreneurship Center opened on 15 September, the APGC-Lab incubator and the start-up exBrain were launched on 19 September, and the Pohang Center for Creative Economy and Innovation opened on 17 December.2014 年 9 月 15 日创业中心启用，9 月 19 日孵化平台 APGC-Lab 与初创企业 exBrain 同时推出，12 月 17 日浦项创意经济创新中心开幕。

• The PAL-XFEL fourth-generation light source was completed in 2016 at a cost of about 390 million US dollars, first light was achieved on 4 June 2016, and it was the third facility of its class in the world when completed.第四代光源 PAL-XFEL 于 2016 年建成，耗资约 3.9 亿美元，2016 年 6 月 4 日首次出光，建成时为世界同类装置中的第三台。

• Times Higher Education ranked POSTECH first among the top 100 universities under fifty years old in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the JoongAng Ilbo Korean university rankings placed it first in Korea in 2013 and 2014 as well.《泰晤士高等教育》在 2012、2013、2014 三年均将 POSTECH 列为全球五十强以下年轻大学之首，《中央日报》韩国大学排名也在 2013 与 2014 年两度将其置于全国第一。
• The founding charter set an explicit national purpose, to train advanced science and engineering personnel for Korean industrialisation, which is why the school opened with no arts faculty and why its campus stands beside a steelworks rather than in a city centre.创校章程确立了明确的国家使命，即为韩国工业化培养尖端的理工科人才，这也解释了学校创办时不设任何艺术类院系、校园紧邻钢铁厂而非位于市中心的原因。

• From 2002 to 2006 the JoongAng Ilbo national university rankings placed POSTECH first in Korea for five consecutive years, the survey in which the school was most often described as the country's leading institution.2002 至 2006 年，《中央日报》韩国大学排名连续五年将 POSTECH 列于全国第一，该榜单也是该校最常被称为韩国第一的排名。

Academics

• POSTECH admits roughly 300 undergraduates each year, and for the 2014 school year it received 1,987 applicants and admitted 323, a selectivity that lets it keep classes small and staff-led.POSTECH 每年本科录取约 300 人，2014 学年收到 1,987 份申请、录取 323 人，较高的淘汰率使小班与导师制得以维持。

• Teaching is organised into divisions covering mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, electronics and electrical engineering, life sciences, industrial design, industrial management and economics, and humanities and social sciences.教学按院系组织，涵盖机械工程、材料科学与工程、化工、电子与电气工程、生命科学、产业设计、产业经营与经济学以及人文社会科学。

• The 2018 statistical return recorded 3,581 students in total, of whom 1,422 were undergraduates and 2,159 postgraduates, supported by 283 faculty members, a graduate-heavy profile unusual for a Korean institution.2018 年度统计显示全校共 3,581 名学生，其中本科 1,422 人、研究生 2,159 人，专任教师 283 人，这种研究生占比偏高的结构在韩国高校中并不常见。

• POSTECH is widely credited with giving Korean students the highest educational investment and the most per-student scholarship support in the country, allowing students from every economic background to attend.POSTECH 素以提供韩国国内最高的教育投入与最厚的生均奖学金著称，使各阶层学生都有机会就读。

• Materials science and engineering is the strongest field, anchored by the National Institute for Nanomaterials Technology of 2007 and by the close working relationship with POSCO on steel and battery materials.材料科学与工程是最强学科，以 2007 年成立的国家纳米材料技术研究所为骨干，并依托与浦项集团在钢铁与电池材料上的紧密合作。

• Mechanical engineering and metallurgy draw on the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology founded in 2005 and on the school's decision to build its whole identity around science and engineering rather than a broad arts-and-sciences range.机械工程与冶金依托 2005 年成立的钢铁技术研究生院，也依托学校把自身定位锁定在科学与工程、而非大而无当的文理综合上的选择。

• Electrical and electronic engineering was joined in 2011 by the Department of Creative IT Engineering, which fuses electronics with software and design in a curriculum unusual for a pure science institute.2011 年设立的创意 IT 工程系把电子学与软件、设计融合进同一课程，这在纯理工科机构中并不常见。

• Theoretical physics is anchored by the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, which moved to the campus in 2001 and hosts international workshops, lectures and long-term visiting positions.理论物理以 2001 年迁入校园的亚太理论物理中心为依托，该中心举办国际研讨会、讲座与长期访问岗位。

• The life sciences, started as a single department on 1 March 1989, now sit at the centre of the university's collaboration with the Pohang biomedical science cluster and with hospitals in the Pohang region.1989 年 3 月 1 日以单系起步的生命科学，如今处在学校与浦项生物医学集群及浦项地区医院合作的核心位置。

• The Pohang Accelerator Laboratory operates a third-generation synchrotron that serves university groups, semiconductor firms and industrial customers, and is administered as a national research facility rather than a campus-only instrument.浦项加速器实验室运行一台第三代同步辐射光源，服务校内外研究组、半导体企业及工业客户，并以国家研究设施而非校园专用仪器的身份运行。

• The PAL-XFEL facility is a fourth-generation X-ray free-electron laser, about 10 billion times brighter than a third-generation light source, intended for chemistry, materials science, life science and physics experiments.PAL-XFEL 是第四代 X 射线自由电子激光源，亮度约为第三代光源的一百亿倍，面向化学、材料科学、生命科学与物理实验。

• POSCO's Research Institute of Science and Technology has been hosted on the campus since the founding years, giving students a route into industrial laboratories and giving the company a standing channel to graduate researchers.浦项集团科学技术研究院自创校年份起即设于校内，既为学生提供进入企业实验室的通道，也为企业提供常设的研究生对接渠道。

• Four research centres of the national basic science programme were established at POSTECH on 13 June 2013, making the university one of the largest single hosts of that programme inside Korea.2013 年 6 月 13 日，四个国家级基础科学研究中心落地 POSTECH，使该校成为该计划在韩国境内最大的单一承建单位之一。

• The Max Planck POSTECH and Korea Research Initiative, agreed with the Max Planck Society on 14 June 2010, funds joint appointments and postdoctoral positions between the German society and the Korean university.2010 年 6 月 14 日与马克斯·普朗克学会达成的马克斯·普朗克 POSTECH 韩国研究中心协议，为德国学会与该韩国高校的联合聘任及博士后岗位提供经费。

• In bibliographic terms the university is large for its size, with OpenAlex recording 55,001 works and 5,949,272 citations, an output consistent with a research institute that concentrates almost all of its budget on laboratories.从文献计量看，该校对自身规模而言产出可观，OpenAlex 记录论文 55,001 篇、被引 5,949,272 次，与一所把预算几乎全部投向实验室的研究型机构相符。

Campus

• The campus covers about 400 acres and sits roughly twenty minutes by car from downtown Pohang, one hour by bus from Busan, and about two and a half hours by KTX train from Seoul, so it is deliberately outside a crowded city.校园占地约 400 英亩，距浦项市中心驾车约二十分钟、乘巴士到釜山约一小时、乘高铁到首尔约两个半小时，刻意远离拥挤城区。

• It is an urban campus in Pohang at 36.03 degrees north and 129.36 degrees east, laid out as a single contiguous research park rather than a set of downtown buildings.这是一座位于浦项的城市型校园，地处北纬 36.03 度、东经 129.36 度，整体规划为连片的研究园区，而非分散于市中心的若干楼栋。

• The Tae-Joon Park Digital Library, completed in 2003, covers 24,420 square metres and forms the centre of the campus library system.2003 年建成的朴泰俊数字图书馆建筑面积 24,420 平方米，是校园图书馆体系的中枢。

• The library holds 352,977 volumes together with 8,324 digital and paper journals, and its shelves are organised around the science and engineering core of the curriculum.该馆藏有图书 352,977 册，数字与纸质期刊 8,324 种，馆藏组织围绕以理工科为主的课程核心展开。

• A 2005 count put the collection at about 320,000 books, 3,500 journals, 7,000 electronic journals, 25 databases and 4,400 multimedia items, a deliberate shift towards electronic provision.2005 年的统计显示馆藏约为图书 320,000 册、期刊 3,500 种、电子期刊 7,000 种、数据库 25 个与多媒体资料 4,400 件，显示出向电子资源倾斜的取向。

• The library takes part in an intercollegiate data exchange with about 150 research and educational institutions across Korea, which matters for a university whose student body is drawn from all over the country.该馆参与与全国约 150 家科研与教育机构的数据交换计划，这对生源遍布全国的学校尤为重要。

• In 2010 POSTECH became the first university in Korea to deploy a desktop cloud service for all staff and students, a campus computing decision that was ahead of its domestic peers.2010 年 POSTECH 成为韩国首所面向全体师生部署桌面云服务的大学，这项校园信息化抉择领先于当时的国内同行。

• Institutional colours are red, orange and grey, and the mascot is Postech Ponix, a phoenix, a choice that fits a young university presenting itself as an institution built to rise again.校色为红、橙、灰三色，吉祥物是凤凰造型的 POSTECH Ponix，与这所把自己定位为「可再起飞」的年轻大学相合。

Reputation

• The 2027 QS World University Rankings place POSTECH 106th in the world with an overall score of 67.7, keeping it among the four best universities in South Korea on that list.2027 年 QS 世界大学排名将 POSTECH 列为全球第 106 位，综合得分 67.7，在该榜单上位列韩国前四。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place it jointly 143rd, so the two global league tables bracket it between one hundred and fifty.《泰晤士高等教育》2027 年世界大学排名将其并列第 143 位，两大全球榜单给出的区间在第一百至一百五十名之间。

• The 2026 and 2027 edition of the Best Global Universities ranking from US News places POSTECH 178th, a noticeably stronger global position than most Korean universities achieve on that American table.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名将 POSTECH 列于第 178 位，在这份美国榜单上明显高于多数韩国高校。

• Times Higher Education ranked the university 28th in the world on 16 September 2010, and in its 2011 edition placed it 53rd worldwide, sixth in Asia and first in South Korea.2010 年 9 月 16 日《泰晤士高等教育》将其列为世界第 28 位，2011 年版又把它排在全球第 53 位、亚洲第 6 位、韩国第 1 位。

• It was ranked first among the one hundred universities under fifty years old in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of the Times Higher Education young universities ranking, and first in Korea in the JoongAng Ilbo rankings of 2013 and 2014.在《泰晤士高等教育》五十岁以下大学排名中，POSTECH 于 2012、2013、2014 三版均列第一，并在《中央日报》2013 与 2014 年排名中位居韩国第一。

• Asiaweek named it the best science and technology university in Asia in 1998, and the JoongAng Ilbo rated it the leading university in Korea every year from 2002 to 2006.1998 年《亚洲周刊》将其评为亚洲最佳科技类大学，《中央日报》在 2002 至 2006 年间连续五年把它列为韩国第一。

• In the 2017 and 2018 QS World University Rankings it stood 71st overall and remained third best in Korea after Seoul National University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on the Asian table.2017 与 2018 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列全球第 71 位，在亚洲榜单上位居韩国第三，仅次于首尔国立大学与韩国科学技术院。

• OpenAlex records 55,001 works and 5,949,272 citations for the institution, a ratio of roughly 108 citations per work that reflects a small, tightly focused research community.OpenAlex 为该校记录论文 55,001 篇、被引 5,949,272 次，平均每篇约获引 108 次，印证了其研究共同体规模小而高度聚焦。

• POSTECH has produced no Nobel, Turing or Fields medalist among its faculty or alumni, and its highest external distinction is the Times Higher Education world rank of 28 reached in 2010, alongside membership of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and the Association of East Asian Research Universities.POSTECH 的教师与校友中尚无诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，其最高外部荣誉是 2010 年《泰晤士高等教育》世界第 28 位的排名，以及入选环太平洋大学协会与东亚研究型大学协会。

Student life

• The institutional motto is written in Korean as seongsil, changui, jinchwi, rendered in English as Integrity, Creativity and Aspiration, a three-part formula set at the founding in 1986.校训以韩文写作「성실，창의，진취」，英译为「Integrity，Creativity and Aspiration」，是 1986 年创校时确定的三段式表述。

• Students live on campus in a residential model copied from the California Institute of Technology, so the residential colleges, laboratories and lecture halls sit inside one walkable site rather than across a city.学生住校，住宿制模式参照加州理工学院，住宿学院、实验室与教学楼集中于同一片步行可达的园区内，而非分散于全城。

• The bilingual campus initiative announced on 2 March 2010 made English an operating language of teaching and administration alongside Korean, in line with the international intake the university was attracting.2010 年 3 月 2 日宣布的双语校园计划使英语与韩语并列成为教学与行政语言，这与学校当时日益扩大的国际生源相匹配。

• Student innovation runs through formal channels, with the POSTECH Entrepreneurship Center opened on 15 September 2014 and the APGC-Lab incubator plus the start-up exBrain launched on 19 September 2014.学生的创新创业有正式渠道，2014 年 9 月 15 日启用创业中心，9 月 19 日推出孵化平台 APGC-Lab 与初创企业 exBrain。

• The Pohang Techno Park, established on 28 February 2000 with the city government and POSCO, gives student projects a direct route from a laboratory result to an industrial partner.2000 年 2 月 28 日与市政府、浦项集团共同设立的浦项科技园，为学生项目提供了从实验室成果直达产业伙伴的通道。

• Because the university was founded in 1986 it has none of the ancient academic traditions of British or American campuses, and student representation is exercised through the student council alongside the graduate and research communities.学校创校于 1986 年，并不具备英美老校那样的古老学术传统，学生事务由学生自治机构与研究生、研究社群共同参与。

• The Graduate School of Engineering Mastership, established on 20 August 2012, is the formal route through which students from the science and engineering divisions combine coursework with a research year in an industrial or university laboratory.2012 年 8 月 20 日成立的工程与管理硕士研究生院，是理工科学生把课程学习与企业或高校实验室科研年结合起来的正规通道。

Notable people

• Park Tae-joon, founder and founding chairman of POSCO, donated roughly 1.2 billion US dollars to establish the university in 1986 and served as its founding chairman, shaping the Caltech-derived model of the school.浦项集团创始人兼首任主席朴泰俊于 1986 年捐资约 12 亿美元创办该校并出任创校主席，塑造了这所学校的加州理工式办学模式。

• Hogil Kim served as the first president of POSTECH from 1985 to 1994 and remains the reference figure for the founding generation that built the curriculum in its first decade.金镐烈自 1985 年至 1994 年担任 POSTECH 首任校长，是创校一代在头十年搭建课程体系时的代表人物。

• Sooyoung Chang was president from 1994 to 1998 and led the university through the Pohang Light Source project, which was completed on 7 December 1994.张寿荣于 1994 年至 1998 年任校长，主持了浦项光源项目的建设，该装置于 1994 年 12 月 7 日建成。

• Sungkee Chang, president from 1998 to 2002, is an electrical engineer who moved the university towards the semiconductor and information technology collaborations that define its engineering reputation.张成基于 1998 年至 2002 年任校长，是电子工程学者，他把学校推向后来定义其工程声誉的半导体与信息技术合作。

• Chanmo Park, president from 2003 to 2007, oversaw the period in which the Tae-joon Park Digital Library was built and the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics settled on campus.朴灿模于 2003 年至 2007 年任校长，主持了朴泰俊数字图书馆的建设以及亚太理论物理中心在校园落户的时期。

• Sunggi Baik, president from 2007 to 2011, is a materials scientist best known for battery and nanostructured materials research, and he later served as a senior administrator at KAIST.白成起于 2007 年至 2011 年任校长，是材料科学家，以电池与纳米结构材料研究闻名，其后出任韩国科学技术院高层管理者。

• Yongmin Kim, president from 2011 to 2015, is a condensed matter physicist who led the university as the PAL-XFEL project moved from the 9 May 2013 groundbreaking towards completion.金永民于 2011 年至 2015 年任校长，是凝聚态物理学家，在 PAL-XFEL 项目自 2013 年 5 月 9 日动工走向完工的阶段主持校务。

• Doh-Yeon Kim, president from 2015 to 2019, is a bioengineer whose career in growth factor and cell signalling research shaped the school's move into the life sciences.金道妍任校长于 2015 年至 2019 年，是生物工程学者，其在生长因子与细胞信号研究中的工作影响了学校向生命科学领域的推进。

• Moo Hwan Kim, president from 2019 to 2023, is an astrophysicist and computational scientist, and Seong Keun Kim has led the university since 2023 as a computational chemist and the ninth president.金镐焕于 2019 年至 2023 年任校长，是天体物理学家与计算科学家；金成根自 2023 年起以计算化学家身份担任第九任校长。