With reorientation towards vocational studies, its name was changed again to Seoul Practical College of Liberal Arts and Science in 1962.

After being approved as a 4-year University, institution planned and designed the 10 Developmental Programs including building new lecture halls, making and reorganizing departments, establishing graduate schools, etc.

[8] On September 13, 1994, the Arts and Design Center was built in industry-academia cooperation of Myongji University and Nasan Group.

[9] The leafed tree symbolizes the founding spirit of the Myong Ji Educational Foundation to imbue the students with the Christian faith, so that they may become devoted and capable leaders who can contribute to the advancement of our culture and national prosperity and ultimately to the realization of world peace.

The school mascot is, therefore, a representation of the profound hope that Myongjians, like the white stallion, will be steeped in such virtues as loyalty, courage, obedience, and purity as they gallop into the world for the realization of God's kingdom here on earth.

Myongji University maintains a large number of research laboratories for areas such as computing, engineering, and biosciences.