Founded in 1886 as Korea’s first modern school for women, Ewha has grown into the world's most comprehensive women's university through constant progress and leaps forward based on the spirit of challenge and innovation. For the past 137 years, Ewha aims to maximize the development of students’ intellectual capacities to equip students with a multicultural perspective demanded in today's globalized society.
Ewha is the biggest Womans University in the world with 14 colleges, 70 majors and 15 graduate schools. Since the establishment Ewha has produced about 170,000 graduates, 50,000 masters, and 4000 doctors. And Ewha has 980 full-time teachers, and 560 employees.
In 1945, Ewha became the first university in the country to introduce an arts department. Throughout the years, Ewha played a vital role in nurturing and advancing arts and culture in our society.
The College of Art and Design is the first educational institute in Korea to offer a four-year college program in the arts. The college’s purpose is to foster highly creative and expressive art professionals and designers through strengthened fundamental studies and more specialized programs, and to yield artists capable of interdisciplinary thinking through a more advanced educational framework. As an open and forward-looking academic and research program, it will strive to achieve global competitiveness, enhance the status of Korea’s art and design, and play a leading role in the creation of innovative culture. The College of Art and Design is composed of 3 divisions.
The foremost competitiveness of the Fashion Design at Ewha Womans University is that it’s the first fashion design major in Korea based on art. Fashion Design Major offers bachelor, master, and doctoral programs. The Fashion Design major offers a comprehensive four-year undergraduate curriculum emphasizing in particular on creativity and experimentation.
Since foundation in 2001, Fashion Design Research Institute has been dedicated to researching design with primary focus in a bid to promote sensitiveness of domestic fashion industry and design planning competences in line with the consumer trends characterized by sophisticated sensitive consumption. In particular, our institute launched its in-house fashion brand E-Feel in 2005 to develop products by planning and designing of professional researchers with multiple years of professional career and had our design competencies highly recognized in markets, taking the lead in reshaping the direction of domestic fashion design education and research.
Dior, in partnership with Ewha Womans University, presented its first runway show in Korea. Dior Fall 2022 fashion show was held at the Ewha Campus Complex.