The Department of Chemistry was established in 1952. Currently, the department has 18 faculty members, 300 undergraduate students, 33 graduate students in M.S. degree programs and 37 graduate students in Ph.D. programs. The undergraduate program is designed to provide strong background in physical, organic, inorganic, and analytical chemistry, which is adequate for their scientific careers in academic and industrial fields. The graduate programs for Masters and Ph.D. degrees are divided into the fields of physical, organic, inorganic, and analytical chemistry and the focus is on thesis research under the intensive guidance of their academic advisors. Most of the graduate students are financially supported by research grants or scholarships. The department is well equipped with modern instrumentation such as NMR, IR, UV-VIS, GC/MASS, HPLC, AA, laser systems, GC, stopped-flow spectrophotometer, spectrofluorometer and X-ray diffractometer. The department has outstanding faculty members and they are actively involved in various research projects funded by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, the Korea Research Foundation, the Ministry of Education, and neighboring research organizations. As a result of such research activities and good educational programs, the department was ranked 7th in 1996 among about 100 chemistry departments in the nation in a survey conducted by Joongang Daily Newspaper.