IN LAST NOVEMBER, YEUNGNAM university(Y.U) announced that school will make registration fee low 45% for entering to graduate school from 2006. So entering upon persons that can enter to graduate school by paying. This is the result of that university students tend to dislike to go to graduate school because of expensive registration fee and go to capital region graduate school, so local graduate school existence has been threatened.
The case of human knowledge society graduate school, registration fee was about 2,840,000 won in a last year term. But from next year it will be about 1,560,000 won as same level as national graduate school. It costed about 3,410,000 won in a last year term that registration fee of engineering graduate school. From next year, It costs 2,050,000 won. These are about a half price compared with fee of last year. Y.U expects to gather graduate school entering upon person who hesitate to go to local graduate school. Secretary public relations tea! m of Y.U says "Graduate school entering upon persons are under 30%~40% even in Seoul National University graduate school. Even In this situation, entering upon persons for graduate school tend to go to graduate school around national capital region or national graduate school. So registration fee lowering in Y.U can beckon with the hand graduate school entering upon person on to Y.U."
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After enforcing this work, applicants for graduate school will take much benefits. Y.U graduate school will open for the first time "Cognition science and graduate course" aimed at graduate school in Kyongsang-bukdo, This is a rising curriculum, chosen by 'Future, a Country Bright Prospect Technology' operated by philosophy, psychology, linguistics, neurology, computer engineering cooperation process. From 2006, many students can take a course. Also school decided to build dormitory for graduate school entering upon students' personal use possible to accommodate about 130 people and one room apartment way dormitory life .
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It is expected Y.U to make entering upon students for graduate school come to graduate school of Y.U. Therefore, to make this work successfully, there will be a lot of PR and publicity activities to draw student's interests. We expected Y.U to reform as local graduate school through registration fee lowering.