2025 Fall Undergraduate Admission Guideline

for International Applicants

UNIST Admissions Team

 Admission Timeline

Categories Schedule Remarks

On-line https://studyinkorea.go.kr/

application 2025.1.2.(Thu) 9:00 ~ 2.3.(Mon) 16:00 (KST) Based on KST(Korean

standard time)

Submission of
Documents 2025.1.2.(Thu) 9:00 ~ 2.3.(Mon) 16:00 (KST) Online Submission

2025.3.11.(Tue) ~ 4.10.(Thu)

※ During the evaluation period, interview dates

Evaluation will be scheduled. However, interview dates

cannot be changed due to personal

circumstances.

https://admu-intl.unist.ac.

Announcement 2025.5.2.(Fri) Expected kr/

Notice

Registration 2025.5.2.(Fri) ~ 5.14.(Wed) Deposit Transfer

Expected
Admission Date Admission in Fall 2025

※ The schedules above are subject to change without prior notice

Admission Eligibility

o Applicants who have completed elementary, middle, and high

school or have attained equivalent level of education should

fulfill one of the following by the beginning of 2025 Fall semester

- Neither of the applicant’s Parents is a Korean citizen

- Foreign or Korean citizens who have completed elementary,

middle, and high school outside of Korea and never enrolled

in any school(s) in Korea

Admission Quota

o About 25 students

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 Academic Programs

School Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and

Environmental Engineering

Department of Materials Science and

College of Engineering
Engineering

School of Energy and Chemical

Engineering

Department of Nuclear Engineering

Department of Design

Engineering Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Industrial Engineering

College of Information
Department of Biological Sciences
and Biotechnology

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Computer Science and

Engineering

Department of Physics

College of Natural
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Sciences

Department of Chemistry

Business School of Business Administration

o Applicants select a field (Engineering or Business) when they apply

o Students should declare their major at the end of their freshman year

o Names of the schools and departments are subject to change

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 List of Documents

o Required Documents

Foreign Korean
Categories Remarks
Student Citizen

1 Form 1: Checklist ○ ○
2 Form 2: Application form ○ ○ Download

3 Form 3: Academic information ○ ○ https://studyinkorea.go.kr/

or
4 Form 4: Personal statement and study plan ○ ○
https://admu-intl.unist.ac.kr/
Form 5: Agreement for Verification of academic
5 ○ ○
Record

6 High school transcript for recent 3 years ○ ○ Original or certified copy

High school diploma or Certificate of the

7 expectant graduation(official letter with ○ ○ Original or certified copy

Principal's official seal)

English test report

:TOEFL(Code:8807), IELTS, TEPS, TOEIC

8 ○ ○ Original or certified copy
※ An official English test report should be

included in the required PDF.

Copy of the applicant's passport or national ID card

9 ○ ○ Original or certified copy
(Indicating your nationality)

Copy of both parents' passports or official

10 ○ ○ Original or certified copy
documents indicating their nationalities

Official document specifying parent-child

11 ○ ○ Original or certified copy
relationship

Certificate of the entry and exit of the

12 ○ Original or certified copy
applicant

Certificate of enrollment(elementary, middle,

13 ○ Original or certified copy
high school)

Certificate of Transcript(elementary, middle

14 ○ Original or certified copy
school)

o Supplement Documents(Up to 5 Certificates)

Categories Remark
1 Awards during high school period Original or certified copy

High school graduation test or College entrance exam

2 Original or certified copy
certificate

Standardized official tests score report (IB, GCE A-Level, SAT, ACT
3 Original or certified copy
etc) and other academic certifications

Standardized official tests score report for Korean Language

4 Original or certified copy
Ability (TOPIK etc)

5 High school introduction/profile(s)

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o Important Notes

- All documents should be submitted in English. Any document

in another language must be accompanied by a notarized

English translation.

- English test report must be taken within 2 years prior to the

deadline of the online application.

- Exemption from submission of English Test Report (Applicants

from U.S.A, Canada, U.K, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland -

Native English Speaker)

Admission Procedure

▸https://studyinkorea.go.kr/
Online ▸Application fee: 50,000 KRW
application ※ The application fee is for document screening only; no
Web-site application fee is charged for interview evaluation
(The application fee is non-refundable and cannot be waived)
↓
▸Sign up
Log-in ▸Log-in
as a member(https://studyinkorea.go.kr/)

↓
Online ▸Online application → Select “UNIST”
Application ▸Enter the all your information
↓
▸All documents should be attached by deadline
(2025.Feb.3rd.(Mon) 16:00 - KST)

▸All documents should be in English. Any document in another

language should be accompanied by a notarized English translation.

▸ All document should be in order of checklist(application form 1)

Attachment ▸ Required document and supplement document should be combined

as one PDF file separately and then upload them

- Required document list 1~11(14) should be combined in one PDF

file (A4 sized PDF, up to 10 MB recommended)

- Supplement document list 1~5 should be combined in one PDF file

(A4 sized PDF, up to 10 MB recommended)

↓
▸When writing an application,
Submission you can use “Save” button while writing,

but you must use “Submit” button for final submission

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 ↓
▸ My page – Online Study Abroad Application Information - Proceed with
Application payment via “Pay” button

Fee - The final submission will be completed only after the application fee

payment is made

- Payment confirmation may take approximately one day

↓
▸You can check your submission result on “My page” -“Online Study Abroad
Application Information ” - “Payment success”

(please check your application form and application fee)

▸In My page, you can use “Read more” button for checking your

registration No. and admission No.

Checking - If one applicant submitted many application forms, the evaluation will be

My page based on the last uploaded application , and the other application will be deleted.

Applicant take full responsibility for the duplicate applications.

▸After submission, applicants can no longer modify their application.

▸If applicants need to change their application form, Please request

modification in ”My page“- ”Modify“

(After editing, don’t forget to click “Submit” button for submission)

↓
Email reply ▸If necessary, Admission staff will contact applicants by email

Admission Criteria

o Document Screening

- The document screening evaluation involves a comprehensive

assessment of the applicant's academic abilities, study plans,

potential for development, and personal qualities based on all

submitted documents.

- Evaluation will be conducted by two or more evaluators.

- After the document screening, applicants are classified as

either ‘Document Screening Accepted’ or ‘Rejected.’ And the

and the interviewee will be the ‘Accepted’ of document

screening.

※ If necessary, the interview evaluation may be omitted. In this case, the final
decision of ‘Accepted’,‘Candidates’, or ‘Rejected’will be based on
the document evaluation results.

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o Interview

- The interview evaluation is a qualitative assessment that

evaluates the applicant's cognitive abilities and social

characteristics based on the submitted documents.

- The interviewee will be the ‘Accepted’ of document screening.

- Interview will be conducted by online and if necessary, we

will conduct face to face interview.

o Decision of Successful candidates

- The decision of successful candidates is based on a combined

score of 50% from the document evaluation and 50% from

the interview evaluation. All the applicants are categorized as

‘Accepted’, ‘Candidate’ or ‘Rejected’.

※ The admission criteria is subject to change according to UNIST admissions

regulations.
※ If necessary, the interview evaluation may be omitted. In this case, the final
decision of ‘Accepted’, ‘Candidates’, or ‘Rejected’will be based on
the document evaluation results.

o Registration

- All successful candidates have to transfer the deposit by deadline.

- If successful candidates will not transfer the deposit, it will be

considered as abandonment of registration.

- Additional registration may be conducted among nominated candidates

according to the registration result for Successful candidates.

Important notice for all applicants

o If any of the submitted materials contains falsified information,

admissions may be cancelled.

o All successful candidates should submit apostille(or legalization)

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 high school diploma, transcripts and other related documents

by deadline. If not, the enrollment will be cancelled.

o All the submitted documents shall not be returned to the applicants.

o Even if the admitted students give up enrollment in UNIST, the

deposit shall not be returned.

o Applicants should take full responsibilities for any mistakes or

omissions on the application.

o If one applicant submitted many application forms, the

evaluation will be based on the last uploaded application, and

the other application will be deleted. Applicant take full

responsibility for the duplicate application.

o All the documents should be submitted in English. Any

document in another language should be accompanied by a

notarized English translation.

o UNIST can ask the successful applicant to submit the original

documents about their scanned copies of your submitted documents.

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