According to Yeungnam daily newspaper, KIU is the highest in both employment rate and actual
employment rate in universities and colleges in Daegu and the Kyungpook area.

Among seven 4 year universities in Daegu and Kyungpook area considering actual employment
rate considering employment rate and maintaining employment rate , KIU is the highest at 61.7%
followed by Daegu Catholic University at 55.1%, Daegu Hanny University at 52.8%, Kyungpook
National University at 49.1%, Keimyung University at 47.4%, Yeungnam University at 47.3%, and
Daegu university at 46% as of January 3rd Yeungnam daily newspaper.

The employment rate of KIU has also been the highest at 67% in an official announcement of the
Ministry of Education last June. In addition, maintaining employment rate which can judge the
quality of employment is the second highest at 92.1%, following Kyungpook National University.

Maintaining employment rate is an indicator that show how many graduate students are working
after a period of time so this is used as data to measure the ���quality��� of employment. The ministry
of Education adopted a maintaining employment rate indicator to prevent universities from adopting
an expedient that universities let graduate students have a job just for a short time to raise the
indictor of employment rate. Every June, using data base of employment health insurance service,
they study the employment rates of graduate students and calculate if those are still joining
employment health insurance service in September and December.

The person concerned in job-research support center in KIU explained that the high maintainance
of employment rates means our graduate students don���t quit working easily and are quick to adapt to
working, so hereafter, they will strengthen job research support to satisfy our students.