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Dongseo University was alone selected as a “well-taught” university in Korea’s Southeast region, allowing it to focus further on education for human resources development.

On April 30, the Ministry of Education and the Korean Council for University Education announced that they selectedeleven universitiesfor the new ACE+ student development program.Dongseo University, which wasaloneselected among the southeastern universitiesand has a competition ratio of8.9-to-1, will be able to strengthen its “The Only One” self-development project. This project aims to help students identify and develop their own individual talents and to brand themselves accordingly. Through close consultation with academic advisors, students will complete the curriculum through selection, combination, and personalization so that they can develop their own individual brands.

Dongseo University plans on sourcing the best educational contents that are needed to meet the various educational needs ofitsstudents, both domestic and foreign. DSU will use a modular educational system for its “The Only One” human resources training.

"With this selection, our university has gained the necessary power to move forward into the future," said Dongseo University’s President Jekuk Chang.“We willprovideeducationthat uncoversthe individual talents each student has and help all students better develop and brand themselves.”

The ACE + project is an expansion and reorganization of the ACE project, which was launched in 2010, and new universities are selected every year for the purpose of fostering “well-taught” universities.

The 32 universities selected from 2014 to 2016 will continue in the program this year.

A total of 89 universities, including 26 in theSeoulmetropolitan area and 63 inotherprovinces, applied for the ACE+ program this year. The ACE + project management committee made the final decision to support new universities based on the results of their first and second stage evaluations.