Konyang University (건양대학교; RR: Geonyang), located in Nonsan, South Korea, was founded in 1991.[2] The university president is Dr. Kim Hi-soo, recipient of the 2006 South Korean Mugunghwa Order of Civil Merit Medal (국민훈상무궁화장) prize for outstanding citizen, for his work in fostering education.Beyond these basics,the system also encourages entering assignments and volunteer and extracurricular activities into the portfolio as well as taking exams via it.[6][7] In 2016, the university was one of twenty-one universities chosen by the Korean Ministry of Education to be part of PRIME (PRogram for Industrial needs-Matched Education), a project designed to reduce quotas for incoming students in the humanities and social sciences and increase the numbers in engineering fields.For four years in a row it ranked first among universities of its size category in South Korea in percentage of graduates being placed in jobs.
