Pedigree Farm for Training Scientific Personnel

In Unjong District, Pyongyang, DPRK, is the University of Sciences.

President Kim Il Sung, who paid deep attention to the development of science and technology of the country and attached importance to the role of the talented personnel throughout his life, proposed establishing the university and personally named it.

The university was thus instituted on January 17, Juche 56 (1967), and has so far creditably fulfilled its heavy but honourable mission of training scientific talents.

President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il explained all the problems arising in the educational work of the university, including its position, selection of students and teaching forces, subjects and education system, and preparing of teaching programmes. The meticulous and energetic leadership became the powerful force for encouraging the university to make steady development.

The university occupies a vast area of over 124 000 square metres in the area of the State Academy of Sciences and is provided with ample conditions and environment for education in basic and IT sciences and scientific research.

It has the continuous higher education system involving the regular, postgraduate and after-postgraduate courses.

The students who are selected from across the country choose their major subjects as they wish and have aptitudes, and study to their heart’s content.

Among the lecturers are brilliant scientists honoured with membership of the World Academy of Sciences, and over a hundred of them have obtained doctorates.

The university has steadily explored new subjects in the fields of the core, basic technology and the cutting-edge science and technology as required by the IT era, introduced modern educational methods and closely combined the education and scientific research. By doing so, it has improved academic performance of the students and produced a lot of talented scientific and technological personnel.

The undergraduates of the university have achieved remarkable successes in several international program contests of the students and internet program contests.

In the past decades the university produced a lot of doctors in their twenties, and its graduates are playing leading roles in scientific research institutes to promote the country’s science and technology.

The brilliant career of the State Academy of Sciences, the core base of the country’s scientific and technological development, is hardly thinkable apart from that of the university.

In their effort to realize the intention of the Workers’ Party of the Korea and the government of the DPRK to build a powerful socialist country by dint of science, the teaching staff and students of the University of Sciences are striving further to achieve world-class successes in education and scientific research.