Graduate Program, PhD
DGIST graduate admission timeline ↗Checked 15 September 2026
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What you pay
Dormitory is extra: ₩170,000 a month.
per application · Not published
per semester · official
per month · official
Official figures from the source page on the date checked. Estimates are Waegook's. Unknown is shown as not published, never as zero.
A scholarship below can remove the tuition line.
What can I study?
- Physics and Chemistry
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering
- Energy Science and Engineering
- Brain Sciences
- New Biology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence Major in Interdisciplinary Studies
- Biomedical Science and Engineering
- Quantum Information Science
Published by DGIST. Which of these a scholarship covers is decided by the school.
What do I need?
- Online application form and statement of purpose, on UwayApply. The statement answers four set questions, in English, Korean or both
- Degree certificate, or expected graduation certificate: the bachelor's for an MS, the bachelor's and master's for a PhD
- Academic transcripts for the same degrees
- Optional: an official English test report (compulsory for New Biology and the AIMS track)
- Optional: recommendation letters on DGIST's form, sent by the recommender to admission@dgist.ac.kr. There is no limit on how many
- General Scholarship (employed) applicants: an employment certificate and a recommendation letter
- Optional: other certificates that show your ability
- Expected or provisional graduation certificates may be submitted, but official graduation certificates must be submitted before admission.
- Only official English proficiency test certificates from authorized institutions are accepted, including TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, and TEPS.
- New Biology applicants must specify class rank on the academic transcript, if available.
- Degree certificates and transcripts must be in English (or come with a notarised English translation) and be apostilled or notarised by the Korean embassy where you graduated
- If your degree is from a country where English is an official but not native language, a certificate that your courses were taught in English replaces the English test
- Type B and C documents must be uploaded as a single merged PDF file smaller than 8 MB.
YOUR DEGREE CERTIFICATE AND TRANSCRIPTS MUST CARRY AN APOSTILLE OR A KOREAN EMBASSY NOTARISATION from the country where your university is, even at the online stage.
Graduates of universities in one country named in the guide send that government's online degree verification report instead.
Some Korean embassies ask for an English test report at the visa stage even if you did not send one to DGIST.
Nothing you send is returned.
Everything except the form and statement goes in ONE merged PDF under 8MB.
Documents in any other language need a notarised English translation, uploaded with the original.
From the official guide. The school decides what it accepts, not Waegook.
All requirements
- You may apply to only ONE department (or programme) per intake
- You apply on UwayApply: sign up, fill in the form, upload the documents, pay the application fee
- You must earn your master's by February 2027 for Spring 2027 or by August 2027 for Fall 2027, or the admission is cancelled
- Interdisciplinary Engineering applicants must contact a DGIST professor in a lab of interest before applying. So must Robotics and Mechatronics PhD applicants, who also name their preferred lab
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science applicants name up to three research fields in the statement of purpose. Energy Science MS and integrated applicants name two preferred subjects
- Enrolling at another school at the same time gets you expelled
- Your scholarship type decides what you pay. Read the types in the admission guideline before you apply
- You must have a master's degree or expect to earn one before admission.
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Where this comes from
- DGIST graduate admission timeline ↗Checked 15 September 2026
- DGIST ↗Checked 18 September 2026
- DGIST ↗Checked 15 September 2026
- DGIST graduate scholarships and housing ↗Supports: the tuition and the dormitory · Checked 11 September 2026
- DGIST graduate requirements ↗Supports: the documents and the English rules · Checked 11 September 2026
- DGIST 2027 Graduate School Admission Guide ↗Supports: schedule, eligibility, tuition, visa type · 6, 9, 12 · Checked 15 September 2026
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