The leading universities in Korea have begun to reorganize their Computer Science departments to incorporate software technology.  These efforts are intended to satisfy the demands of technicians working in the software sector. 

Starting next year, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) has decided to increase enrollment in the Department of Software from 50 to 135.  On April 8^th, a faculty member involved announced, “The decision has been made to expand the Department of Software by downsizing and altering the Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, in which there are a lot of possibilities such as scholarships and a free exchange student program for students.

Five years since it was established in 2011, SKKU’s Department of Software has initiated a special course where bachelor’s and master’s degrees can be directly obtained.  The students who undertake the course will have great opportunities such as studying with around thirty major companies in Korea like Samsung and SK Planet and visiting global enterprises like Google and Facebook.  There is a full scholarship offered for the top 50 ranked students and a 50% scholarship offered for extra students chosen annually.

Ewha University appears to be executing the same plan as SKKU by enlarging its Department of Computer Science and Engineering and reorganizing it as the Department of Software; the amount of enrollment is undetermined though.  The university has changed its educational policies starting from the 2016 spring semester so that every freshman, except in the Department of Pharmacology, must take information technology and computer science classes for graduation.  These are all related to software technology.  A faculty member said, “The Ewha Software Center will be built next year for teaching software technology and promoting female professionals in the field.”

In the meantime, Korea University (KU) has been initiating a “Software-friendly Plan” by instituting a new department that combines the studies of language, brain science, and computer technology (LB&C).  KU is able to enroll up to 20 students in the new department and they must acquire 36 credits to obtain a degree in LB&C.

Dongguk University has also decided to begin fostering software education in the 2016 fall semester.  It will offer various classes in the subject by fusing it with Criminalistics, Robot Convergence, and Cultural Art.  A faculty member stated that the motivation for developing the new software-oriented majors with the aforementioned subjects was because they have become the primary ones students are interested in at the university.