Course Requirements

Master's Program

• A. Graduation Credits : at least 33 credits
• B. Mandatory General Course : 3 credits and 1AU
• - CC010 Special Lecture on Leadership(non-credit, this applies to students entering KAIST in 2002 and thereafter; general scholarship students, foreign students are excluded)
• - CC020 Ethics and Safety I(1AU)
• C. Mandatory Major Course : 3 credits
• - Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
• D. Elective Course : at least 15 credits (should take more than 6 credits offered by the department)
• E. Research Credits : at most 12 credits (including 2 credits in Seminar)
• ※ Foreign students are allowed to take HSS586 or HSS587 instead of 2 credits in Seminar.

Doctoral Program

• A. Graduation Credits : at least 60 credits
• B. Mandatory General Course : 3 credits and 1AU
• - CC020 Ethics and Safety I(1AU)
• C. Mandatory Major Course : 3 credits
• - Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
• D. Elective Course : at least 24 credits (should take more than 9 credits offered by the department)
• E. Research Credits : at least 30 credits(including 2 credits in Seminar)
• ※ Foreign students are allowed to take HSS586 or HSS587 instead of 2 credits in Seminar.
• ※ The course credits earned in the Master's course work can be used towards the Doctoral degree (except research credits).

Measures for Change

• Master's and Doctoral Program
• 1. The new course requirements are applicable to the students who enter in 2017 or later
• 2. The course requirements of the year of entering the master's course are applicable to students who entered before 2017
• 3. The exemption regulation of Seminar course requirements for foreign students are applicable to all of the current foreign students