Natural sciences and physical education, master's and PhD
Korea University Graduate School, 2027 Spring application guide for international students ↗Checked 24 October 2026
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What can I study?
- Every Graduate School natural science, life science and physical education department
- Psychology, Digital Management and Applied Statistics count in this band
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What do I need?
- Online application and information release form
- Apostilled (expected) graduation certificate and transcript for the bachelor's, and the master's where relevant; apostilled final documents by 24 December 2026 if not sent now
- Study plan and CV
- Proof of language proficiency, or proof of exemption
- Proof of bank balance (20,000,000 won Seoul, 16,000,000 Sejong) or a KU professor's financial support form
- Passport copies of you and your parents, and a family register or relationship certificate
- Recommendation letter for the listed departments, sent by the professor to grad_recommendation@korea.ac.kr
- Portfolio for Architectural Planning (design) only
Application fee 127,000 won (120,000 plus 7,000 commission).
Tuition table is for the 2026 academic year, master's and PhD identical; the entrance fee is paid once with the first semester.
Dormitory: online application January 2027 through dorm.korea.ac.kr; the guide prints no cost.
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All requirements
- You and your parents are non-Korean citizens, or you hold Korean nationality but did 16 years or more of schooling abroad
- A bachelor's (master's) or master's (PhD) by 28 February 2027, after regular grades 1 to 12
- LANGUAGE, one of: TOPIK 3; TOEFL iBT 71 (3.5 new scale), IELTS 5.5, New TEPS 326 or CEFR B2. Some Korean-language programmes want TOPIK 5 or 6; English is compulsory for business majors; Economics needs both
- EXEMPT from language proof: nationals of the English-speaking countries on the list in the guide (p.3), which covers native and official-language countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe
- Also exempt: a degree from an English-speaking country or from Korea; a Korean-language degree abroad; a degree taught entirely in English; or a department letter
- THE BANK CERTIFICATE GOES WITH THE APPLICATION: 20,000,000 won (Seoul) or 16,000,000 (Sejong) in your or your parents' name, issued within 30 days, frozen until 28 February 2027; or a KU professor's financial support form
- Selection is 100% documents; a department may hold an oral interview in November. No quota per major
- A recommendation letter is compulsory only for listed departments (business finance, strategy, accounting, some language departments, Life Sciences, Nursing, Education, Sejong departments); the professor sends it
- If you or a parent hold Korean citizenship alongside another, you do not count as an international student; apply through the 16-years-abroad route instead, if you qualify. Citizenship counts as it stands on the day you apply
- If you or a parent gave up Korean citizenship, or you were adopted out of Korea, send official proof that it was lost and when (for example a Declaration of Loss of Nationality). An application to give it up does not count
- If the parent who has custody of you is married to a Korean citizen, you cannot apply as an international student, even if you were never legally adopted
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