Sejong University ranks 8th in Korea, 281st globally in THE World University Rankings 2027

Sejong University ranked eighth in Korea and 281st globally in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2027. With an overall score of 55.8 points, the university placed among the top 10 of the 44 Korean universities evaluated by the U.K.-based rankings agency. The university, which was listed in the 251-300 band last year, ranked 281st globally this year among the 2,297 universities evaluated worldwide. Sejong University said the results reflected its strong performance in the research quality category. It received 90.5 points in the category, the highest among Korean universities. The university became the only Korean university to score above 90 in the category, highlighting its strength in research quality. The category assesses factors including citation impact, which reflects the number of citations per publication; research strength measured by Field-Weighted Citation Impact; research excellence, which evaluates the proportion of a university’s publications among the top 10 percent of the most cited papers; and research influence. The university also performed st