The College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy is considered to be one of the top colleges at Sungkyunkwan University. It is the home of education subjects based on Confucianism, that includes Korean Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, and Eastern Aesthetics. Also, as the world's oldest college, it has inherited the tradition of Sungkyunkwan since Taehak was established in Goguryeo.

Through our diverse education and research in the field of humanities, our College of Liberal Arts successfully embodies a fully-fledged personality that broadly understands human beings and society. At the same time, we are dedicating ourselves to educating specialists with the skills and knowledge of humanities in order to achieve these educational goals.

The Law School is dedicated to producing legal professionals with leadership skills and the qualitie of democratic citizens. It trains its students to have community service abilities who can contribute to the general cultural development of society.

The College of Social Sciences does its best to satisfy the goal of university education to foster leaders who can contribute to the country as well as global human society. It provides democratic education based on research and Confucianism and in-depth academic theories and teaches how to apply them. The college is focused on meeting the ideal image of a university with cultured students that have excellent abilities. It cultivates professionals who will create new values in the digital era with creative thinking and challenging spirits.

Economics restores the feedback effect between the two discipline and improves the quality of lectures and research. It follows the most logical way of reaching the educational goal of producing qualified graduates needed in modern society.

The Business School’s master's and doctoral programs have major fields including marketing, organization, human resources, management information, production management, accounting, and finance. It aims to cultivate talented scholars capable of integrating business concepts into new fields, developing enterprising mindsets, diagnosing and solving problems, and establishing management strategies.

The College of Education is focused on the acquisition of knowledge, developing SKKU’s educational philosophy, and generating qualified teachers.

The School of Art promotes a creative interdisciplinary educational environment and converges the various fields of art in order to surpass the limitation of art in society.

AEAS constantly makes new methodologies for education and establishes East Asian study by managing the Research Cluster, which is an institute of long-term and interdisciplinary studies. Participation of graduates in this Research Cluster and foreign studies make research-education integrated systems. Moreover, since it has affiliated research institutes, graduate schools, undergraduate curriculum, andsupport for information, it produces synergy with the relational unity for each component.