Type Private Founded 1999 Province Gyeonggi Province | Established 1999 Phone +82 31-850-9200 | |
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Location Pangyo, Seongnam, South Korea Website en.cha.ac.kr/school/school_2gr_1.cha Address 198-1 Donggyo-dong, Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Similar 삼육대학교, 대진대학교, 가톨릭대학교 성신교정, Sungkyu University, 덕성여자대학교 | ||
CHA University, School of Medicine is the medical school in Pangyo, South Korea. It was founded in 1999 by Dr. Kwang-Yul Cha, a world-renowned scientist in reproductive medicine and the owner of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, which is an affiliated hospital of Keck School of Medicine of USC. Along with the foundation of the medical school, Dr. Cha has also founded multiple medical and educational institutions such as CHA Medical Centers in Gangnam, Bundang, and Gumi; Daegu CHA Women's Hospital; and CHA University. Each class in the four-year MD program has approximately 40 students.
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As an effort to recruit competitive students, the medical school decided to offer a guaranteed full-ride academic scholarship upon admission for the majority of students, which gained immense popularity among pre-med college graduates. Although there is no reliable ranking system for medical schools in Korea, this medical school was the highest in medical schools in the nation in 2006 with regard to MEET scores, which is equivalent to the MCAT in the United States, despite its short history. It is also known that its graduates have the highest pass rate in Korea Medical Licensing Exam (KMLE)