Sangmyung University

University in Seoul, South Korea

Sangmyung University
상명대학교 祥明大學校

Established	1937; 87 years ago (1937)
Location	Seoul Campus Jongno District, Seoul Cheonan Campus Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province , South Korea
Nickname	SMU, Center of Seoul, Deer University

Sangmyung University
Hangul	상명대학교
Hanja	祥明大學校
Revised Romanization	Sangmyeong Daehakgyo
McCune–Reischauer	Sangmyŏng Taehakkyo

Sangmyung University (Korean: 상명대학교) is a private university in South Korea with the main campus in Jongno, Seoul, and an auxiliary campus in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do. It was established in 1937, with the Sangmyung Women's College being founded in 1965, and the Sangmyung Women's College in Cheonan in 1985. In 1987, the college was promoted to a university and changed its name to Sangmyung Women's University. In 1996, it changed into coeducation and changed its name to Sangmyung University.

Location

Sangmyung University is located in Jongno, Seoul and Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do. Jongno District is famous for origin of Seoul.

History

The university traces its beginnings to 1937 during the Japanese colonial era. It was in this year that the Sangmyung Academy for Higher Learning for the Young was established.

By 1965, the academy became a women's teacher's college and then a women's university in 1986. Ten years later, Sangmyung Women's University began to admit men. Library occupancy rates and graduate employment rates have increased since 1996. Male alumni have been largely responsible for the surge in alumni activities since Sangmyung went co-educational with the assistance of Kyoungsun Im.