SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Based in the heart of Seoul at one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities, Yonsei School of Business offers students a gender-balanced global MBA offering links to institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. Tim Banerjee Dhoul presents an introduction to this newly triple-accredited institution
HISTORY Founded in 1915, Chosen Christian College was the first private college in Korea and offered a programme in commerce, among others. It was renamed Yonhi College in 1917. The college subsequently acquired university status in 1946, before merging with Severance Medical School to become Yonsei University in 1957. The following year, the university established a Department of Business Administration within its College of Commerce and Economics. An evening MBA programme was launched at Yonsei in 1964, with an advanced management programme (AMP) and an English-language global MBA following in 1976 and 1998, respectively. The home of business education at the university was moved to the standalone Yonsei School of Business (YSB) in 2003 and then acquired its own building in 2015, the year of its centenary.
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The MBA portfolio at YSB consists of one full-time and three part-time programmes. The full-time option is its global MBA, offered in English
YSB lies at the heart of Yonsei University’s main campus – Sinchon, in the Seodaemun district of Seoul. South Korea’s capital city is home to approximately 10 million people, but its wider metropolitan area has the world’s fourth- largest population, at more than 25 million. Seoul also places among the planet’s biggest metropolitan economies, alongside the likes of Tokyo, New York and Paris. YSB’s recently constructed nine-storey building, blending traditional and modern architecture, was financed by donations from alumni and South Korea’s business community.
over 18 months. Students are encouraged to go on exchange programmes and can undertake a dual degree with one of YSB’s international partners, which currently include Olin Business School at Washington University in Saint Louis, the University of Zurich and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Part-time options encompass a corporate MBA taught over weekends, in English or Korean, a specialised MBA in finance and an executive MBA for those with more than 10 years’ prior work experience.
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