School rating is a service that evaluates credit quality of schools and assigns ratings accordingly. It is common among universities in the United States to get ratings from credit rating agencies, and more and more schools in Japan are also getting ratings. Leading educational institutions in Korea are also getting school ratings.
Korea Investors Service conducts school rating according to the same rating scale as is used for unsecured bond rating. Therefore, credit quality of educational institutions that have our school ratings can be readily compared with credit quality of corporate bond issuers, and school ratings have the same utility in the capital market as corporate bond ratings.
All schools and educational institutions that need credit rating can utilize Korea Investors Service’s school ratings. School ratings have the following utilities :
