Type Public President Kim, Seung-Du Headquarters Pyongyang, North Korea Number of students 3,000 | Established 1967 Campus Urban Founded 1967 | |
Location Science District, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea | ||
Institute of Natural Science (INS) is a university located inside the region of the National Academy of Science in Pyonyang, North Korea. As Kim Il-Sung, a former leader of North Korea, emphasized the significance of education for gifted and talented students, INS originally started as a branch of Kim Il-Sung University on January 17, 1962. It was separated from Kim Il-Sung University in 1985. In South Korean mass media, this university is called "KAIST of North Korea". Top students of natural sciences or engineering in North Korea study at this university supported totally by North Korean government. Eighty percent of them is graduated from No.1 Middle Schools, which are science high schools for gifted and talented students in North Korea, and the rest thirty percent are medal winners in the national science (math, physics, chemistry, and biology) olympiads or national science quiz contests.
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Departments
There are six departments in INS. Each department has five or six majors.