Biotechnology, chemistry and energy, chemical engineering and materials, food service and nutrition, and fashion and textiles, bachelor's (Seoul campus)

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What do I need?

• Application form, financial support pledge and academic record consent: entered online, printed and posted with the other papers. Photo file 300Kb or less, 3.5 x 4.5 cm, taken within 3 months
• Freshmen: high school diploma copy or graduation certificate original, or an expected-graduation certificate original; all-year high school transcript original
• Transfers: university or junior college graduation, enrolment or completion certificate original and high school diploma; previous university transcript original with credits or weekly hours, plus a Korean or English notarised translation
• Proof of schooling: schools outside China, an apostille or Korean consular confirmation (no apostille country: the consulate's "재외교육기관확인서" or "영사확인서"); schooling in China, CHSI (学信网) reports in English
• China, vocational high schools (中专, 职高, 技工学校), which get no CHSI report: one of the apostille routes in the guide's table, plus the school information form (학교정보확인서). Other recognised schools: school certificate, apostille, licence copy
• Passport copy (parents' passports too if they have one); ID copies of you, your father and your mother; family relation proof original with an English or Korean notarised translation (see notes); parents' divorce or death papers if relevant
• In Korea: alien registration card copy (both sides). Foreign nationality acquired after birth: proof of loss of Korean nationality
• Korean proof (one): TOPIK 3+ report; King Sejong certificate (online Sejong not accepted); institute certificate and transcript; D-4 records with a supervisor's note; KIIP papers
• Bank balance certificate original (see notes). Arts, music and sport units: portfolio or recording (CD or USB, playable in Windows Media Player). Korean high school graduates: school record (학교생활기록부)

BANK BALANCE 20,000,000 WON OR MORE (or the same in another currency), Korean or foreign bank, in your or a parent's name; issued within 30 days of applying, or within 6 months if it shows a validity date. A parent's account needs a family relation certificate (Chinese or English).

Overseas Koreans (재외동포) do not file it. Sangmyung ILCEC (국제언어문화교육원) students with alien registration (등록외국인) file half. Applicants changing status (for example D-4 to D-2) who are nationals of the two printed country lists file half.

Those lists, as printed: "장관고시국가" Ghana, Nigeria, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Iran, Egypt, India, Indonesia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines (21).

And "중점관리국가" Guinea, Mali, Ethiopia, Uganda, Cameroon (5).

For the D-2 visa the guide asks for one year of tuition and living costs (a balance held 6 months or more); Vietnamese applicants add a separate frozen-deposit (지급유보) study-cost certificate from the bank.

Family relation proof as printed: China, hukou copy and relation certificate; Vietnam, birth certificate and family register; Japan, family register; Mongolia, birth certificate and family relation certificate; USA and others, birth certificate.

Application fee 120,000 won, paid at the last step of the online form (bank transfer, credit card or mobile phone; abroad, credit card). Refunded only in the cases the law lists. No waiver is printed.

NO ENTRANCE FEE is printed. Each bill also carries a 12,000 won student fee (학생경비), which the guide says is optional. Tuition amounts are the 2026 rates.

Admission letters are e-mailed after tuition (round 1: 14 to 15 December 2026). D-4 holders in Korea change to D-2 through the school's agency service or at the Sejongno immigration office; register within 90 days of entry.

Dormitory, a semester, 2026 rates, utilities included: single 1,564,000 won; double 1,100,000; triple 944,000; quad 884,000. Places depend on final registration numbers.

National Health Insurance is compulsory for D-2 students and starts with alien registration or the change to D-2; you pay a monthly premium.

Applying for the D-2 visa abroad: nationals of high tuberculosis-risk countries also file a TB certificate from a designated hospital that includes a chest X-ray result (as printed).

Filed an expected-graduation, completion or enrolment certificate? File the final graduation or completion certificate within 1 week of the day it can be issued, and before entry, or the admission is cancelled.

Withdrawing after paying: full tuition refund before classes start, part after. A refused visa cancels the admission; tuition is refunded, the application fee is not.

Vietnam, as printed: education papers confirmed by the Korean consulate in Vietnam or by the Vietnamese mission in Korea are both accepted (choose one).

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All requirements

• You and BOTH parents are foreign nationals (Taiwan nationals the same). A later foreign nationality counts only if all three held it before the equivalent of Korean high school. Dual Korean nationals (parents included) cannot apply
• FRESHMEN: graduate (or graduate before entry) of a regular high school in Korea or abroad, or a legal equivalent. A GED (검정고시), homeschooling, cyber learning and adult education are NOT accepted
• TRANSFERS, year 3: 2 years (4 semesters) at a 4-year university with half the credits a degree needs, or a 2 to 3-year junior college degree. Sport, arts and music applicants only from the same or a similar major
• Year 4 transfer: Chinese 3-year junior college graduates in the same major with 3/4 of the credits, by institutional agreement only, Chinese track, Global Business Administration and Music only. Call +82-2-2287-5469 first
• KOREAN, one of: TOPIK 3 (arts, music and sport: 2); King Sejong Institute intermediate 1 (arts: beginner 2); level 3 at a Korean 4-year university language institute (arts: 2); 1 year or more at the same institute in Korea on D-4
• Or the Ministry of Justice integration programme (KIIP) stage 3 or a pre-test score of 61 (arts: stage 2 or 41). Anyone else may sit the university's own Korean test, set at TOPIK 3 level. Agreement programmes may differ
• Freshmen and year-3 transfers who meet none of the five proofs cannot enter their major in semester 1: they take Korean general courses first and join the major from semester 2 (transfers may graduate later)
• Selection out of 100: Korean test 40 + video interview 60; arts, music and sport units with a portfolio or performance: Korean 40 + interview 40 + portfolio 20. Holders of a Korean proof get the full 40. Documents checked pass or fail
• The interview checks Korean listening and speaking, your papers, your study plan and your sponsor's finances, and any past stay or illegal stay in Korea by you or your family
• Every unit except the College of Education admits without a quota limit, but applicants judged unable to study are failed. One unit only; no double registration with another school
• TO GRADUATE you file TOPIK 4 (arts, music and sport: TOPIK 3) before graduation (Korean graduation certification). Korean high school graduates: school-violence measures cost 5 or 10 points
• THREE ROUNDS for Spring 2027: round 1 closed 15 October 2026; round 2 runs 16 to 27 November; round 3 (28 December to 8 January 2027) needs a call to the office first. Results at 14:00 on the international office site

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Where this comes from

• Sangmyung University Seoul campus Spring 2027 international freshman and transfer guide (Korean, PDF of 2026-09-15) ↗Checked 19 October 2026
• Seoul campus Spring 2027 international guide, PDF (Korean PDF p.3 to 22, English p.47 to 68; created 2026-09-09, changed 2026-09-15) ↗Supports: every figure on this row · Checked 19 October 2026
• Sangmyung University "International Student" page (undated): the two international student teams and their lines ↗Supports: offices · Checked 19 October 2026
• Seoul admission notice board (newest post 2023-10-24; no Spring 2027 notice on 2026-10-19) ↗Supports: newest notice check · Checked 19 October 2026

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