Munkyung College

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Munkyung College, also known as Mun Kyung College, is a private technical college in Mungyeong city, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea. It is located in Hogye-myeon, on the outskirts of Jeomchon. It was established as Mun Kyung Technical College in 1990, and took on its present English name in 1995. It changed its Korean name to "Mungyeong University" in 2011 by government permission. As of spring 2025, total enrollment was 630, down from 793 in 2022. The students are taught by 28 faculty. The school has six departments. The largest of these is the four-year nursing program, which as of spring 2025 had an enrollment of 452. A 2010 evaluation by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology determined that the school was at risk of shutting down. The school then began to receive a subsidy from the city government of Mungyeong; from 2011 to 2022, the total subsidy amounted to 28.2 billion won. As a result of this subsidy, as of 2025 Munkyung College had the fifth highest level of investment per student out of all private colleges in the country, and the highest in the Daegu and North Gyeongsang region.

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