Ajou University

About

Ajou University (Korean: 아주대학교) is a private research university located in Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. It was founded in 1973. Ajou University started as Ajou Engineering College with the aim of exchanging technology and culture through education between the French and South Korean governments.

Ajou is located on a single campus with Ajou University Hospital, Gwanggyo Bio-Techno Valley, Samsung Electronics headquarters, and CJ Blossom Park, a food bio-convergence research institute. Gyeonggi-do Pharmaceutical Association has signed MOUs with Ajou.

Ajou has established an advanced college of bio-convergence engineering that combines Biology, Biological engineering, medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, artificial intelligence, and mechanical engineering to protect human lives and help solve issues related to aging, diseases, health foods, and environmentally friendly materials.

There is Ajou University Hospital, an affiliated hospital of the medical school.

In 2020, Ajou established a campus in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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