Upon analyzing the executives of the global steel company, POSCO, it was found that YU placed fifth among in the number of alumni holding executive positions.

According to the announcement by the news journal financial media, Sisa Biz, based on the Financial Supervisory Service’s electronic announcement system data (Oct 12, 2015) on the executives of POSCO, there were a total of 20 colleges from which the 84 executives of POSCO graduated from.

From them, a total of four executives were from YU following Seoul National University (23), Pusan National University (10), Hanyang University (8), and Korea University (7). Yonsei University and Kyungpook National University tied with YU at four each.

A total of 53 of the executives majored in engineering, including 38 in metallic engineering. Twenty-seven had studied overseas accounting for 32.1%, and 17 of them studied in the United States.

Meanwhile, it was found that there were many YU alumni among the Hyundai Group executives as well. According to Break News in June (Jun 1, 2015), 4.5% of the executives were from YU, following Pusan National University (12.1%), Seoul National University (7.2%), Korea University (8.7%), and Yonsei University (6.1%). At Hyundai Heavy Industries, YU alumni accounted for 7.9% of the executives, following only Pusan National University (17.2%) and University of Ulsan (9.9%).

According to the ‘2013 Business Report’ submitted to the Financial Supervisory Service on March 31, the final education of the executives (excluding outside executives) in the top ten Korean companies in total market value stated in an article by Chosun Ilbo (Apr 2, 2014), YU placed 10th nationwide for having the most alumni in the top 10 companies including the 13 executives in Samsung Electronics, which is first place in total market value (Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Naver, POSCO, Samsung Life, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Motors, Kia Motors, Hyundai Mobis, Lotte Shopping).