This study analyzed the university professors’ recognition for introducing new technologies to universities and transforming of the current university system for the purpose of university education innovation in the 4th industrial revolution era. To do these, 118 university professors around the country were surveyed. Results indicated that while 86.4% of the respondents agreed to introduce new technology to universities, 83% of them agreed to transform the current university system. Specifically, while professors from KNOU agreed to introduce new technology(eg, bigdata mining & VR & AR) at a higher level than ones from the other universities, professors aged from 50 to 60 who had served for over 20 years agreed to transform university system(eg, flexibility of semester system, nano degree etc) at a higher level than ones aged from 30 to 40 for less than 10 years. Besides, professors from the faculties of social science and science & engineering agreed on bigdata mining, professors from science & engineering on VR & AR, and professors from social science on the prior learning recognition system at a higher level.