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The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare with the elevation composition of Underwood hall, Appenzeller hall, Stimson hall in Yonsei university. Yonsei university is the representative higher educational institution which had been made by Western missionaries during the Japanese colonial period. Especially, these buildings had been designed by the master plan which had been made before the consturction. So, these buildings have a lot of similarities that used the same elevation composition elements as Tudor gothic style (four-centered arch, bay window, square window, decorative chimney, tower and so on). On the other side, each building has individual characteristics. Because they used the elevation composition elements using by the different methods and location. Elevation composition elements give the visual stability by symmetric location to both sides of building. And elevation composition elements give the visual centrality by location to the center of the building. As a result, the front elevation emphasize the visual stability and centrality. On the other side, the rear elevation of Underwood hall and Stimson hall has asymmetry and tension because some buildings located the back of Underwood hall and Stimson hall. Also, the left side elevation of Stimson hall has more decorative elements than the right side elevation because the street was located the left side of the Stimson hall. The elevation composition of these buildings shows that the planning method of western universities had applied to these buildings in Korea and western missionaries had kept the plan of western universities as possible as they can. These buildings have the similarities because of the master plan and using the same elevation composition elements. Also each building had their own individual characteristics with the different method and location of elevation composition elements.