Government agencies conducted institutional accreditation of universities for the need for intensifying the competitiveness of universities following the decrease of school age population. This study analyzed a total of 1,318 university advertisements centering on the newspaper advertisements published in 2013 to determine whether there are differences in the advertisement messages of universities that appeared during the institutional accreditation of universities. The analysis showed that the largest number of advertisements were inserted by universities in the Seoul by region and 4-year-course colleges and private universities by the type of university. In the analysis of the advertisement messages of universities, the largest number of messages were about “Dream, Vision, and Future”, followed by messages about “Globalization and Internationalization”, “Nation (People), Society, Public Co-prosperity”, and “History, Tradition, Prestige, Excellent Education, in respective order. While 4-year-course colleges emphasized ”Globalization and Internationalization“ and ”History and Tradition“ in addition to “Dream, Vision, and Future”, the advertisements of junior colleges included a number of messages related with “Employment of Student Applicants and Employment Rate.” Especially, messages related with the evaluation indicator of government and accreditation have been reflected in many of the recent advertisements. Still, one-off advertisements prevail compared with series and campaign advertisements and images that are not much related with the message are used, which need to be improved.