Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea’s top-ranked university, is the 47th best university in the world according to the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009. It only accepts incoming freshmen who score in the top 2.5 percent of those who take the National University Entrance Examination. The College of Education at SNU has trained roughly 20,000 undergraduate students and 5,300 graduate students since its inception in 1946.