糖心APP

The Korean Government Scholarship Program is designed to provide higher education in Korea for international students, with the aim of promoting international educational exchanges as well as mutual friendship amongst the participating countries. Students graduated from a renowned college with good academic qualifications will have a higher possibility to be selected for the KGSP.

• Master’s : 1 year. Korean language + 2 yearrs. Master’s program
• Doctoral : 1 year. Korean language + 3 yearrs Doctoral program

Exception : Overseas Korean adoptees and GKS scholars

• Applicants who apply for the Master’s program must hold a Bachelor’s degree or a diploma that is equivalent to or higher than a Bachelor’s degree.
• Applicants who apply for the Doctoral program must hold a Master’s degree or a diploma that is equivalent to or higher than a Master’s degree.
• Applicants who are expecting to obtain the relevant required degree or diploma by August 31st, must submit a certificate of degree or diploma expectation, and submit the official certificate of degree or diploma to NIIED by August 31st,
  • Applicants must maintain a grade point average (G.P.A.) of at least 2.64 on a 4.0 scale, 2.80 on a 4.3 scale, 2.91 on a 4.5 scale, or grades/marks/score of 80% or above on 100 point scale or be ranked within the top 20%within one's class
  • If an applicant has a CGPA below the minimum grad requirement, the applicant will be disqualified and application will be disregarded
• If the transcript is not indicated in grades/marks/scores format, or is difficult to convert into percentages, attachment of official explanation from the attended institution is required.
  • Applicants who have Korean proficiency or English proficiency may be given preference
  • Applicants who apply for natural science and technology program may be given preference

Graduate School of International Studies

Fields of Study in 糖心APP - Graduate School of International Studies

Division	Department	Field of Study		Remarks
		Master's	Doctoral
Graduate School of International Studies	International Business	International Business	-	crhee@ajou.ac.kr
	International Trade	International Trade	-	jungho@ajou.ac.kr
	NGO Studies	NGO Studies	-	shingookang@ajou.ac.kr
	nternational Development and Cooperation	International Development and Cooperation(*)	-	shingookang@ajou.ac.kr

GSIS provide full English courses and all the students in GSIS are international students. []

The e-mail addresses are the chief's of the each department.

If you have general questions about admission procedure and required documents , then please do not contact to the professor but contact to the coordinators of each graduate school (gsis@ajou.ac.kr)

Scholarship period

same as the period of invitation.

Scholarship Benefits

For applicants who apply for KGSP via designated domestic universities

• (1st Selection) Each designated university will draft its own selection schedule and plan based on the criteria provided by NIIED, and accepts the applications. Each designated university will select up to 20 candidates from all of the quota-assigned countries and recommend them to NIIED. They cannot recommend more than 3 candidates from a single country.
• (2nd Selection) NIIED Selection Committee selects as many successful candidates as each country’s quota from all of the candidates recommended by the universities. The candidates who are selected in the NIIED Selection Committee will be accepted to the university which recommended them, and will be finally accepted as official KGSP scholars upon a successful comprehensive medical examination.

• All documents, including transcript, self-introduction, study plan, certificates of language proficiency (Korean and English), recommendation, published papers and awards etc., will be evaluated.

Note

Selection for successful candidates will be done strictly by the NIIED Selection Committee.
Therefore, appropriate documents should be submitted by the deadline.

• Dual applications are not accepted. Applicants must apply for this program via only one institution.
• Documents should be presented in their original form.
• Submitted documents will not be returned to the applicants.
• Incomplete or incorrect documents may lead to application rejection or failure in the Selection Committee, and scholarship revocation even after entry into Korea.
• In case of submitting photocopied documents, applicants must submit the original to the 1st Selection Institution and have the original one and the photocopied one collated. The confirmation of collation should be indicated in the photocopied documents.
• Applicants who are expected to graduate from their respective home undergraduate/graduate institutions by August 31st, 2015, should submit the certificate (or letter) of expected graduation issued by said institutions when they apply; the official certificate of graduation should be received by NIIED by August 31st,2015.
• Applicants must accurately complete the health checklist truthfully. All successful candidates must take a comprehensive medical exam when its’ orientation. In accordance with the requirements of the Korea Immigration Service and the KGSP Program, the candidates who are judged to be physically unfit for this program will not be accepted.
• Applicants may submit the copies of published papers, if available.
• Applicants may submit the copies of awards, if available.

  Applicants must submit all the documents by the checklist order. (Checklist for the application documents should be on the front page, followed by the required documents, stapled and attached.)

  Transferring to a different university after confirming the host university is not permitted in any cases. In regards to changing majors, it would be permitted only under the mutual agreement of the departments concerned only within the same university, with the scholarship period unchanged. (2 years of Master’s, or 3 years of doctoral, in total). However, quitting a program and applying for a new one is not permitted.

KGSP Coordinators

• Graduate School
  • Tel : +82-31-219-2304
  • Fax : +82-31-214-1500
  • E-mail : grad@ajou.ac.kr
  • Address : The Office of Graduate School, #305, Yulgok Hall, World cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Rep. KOREA
• Graduate school of International Studies
  • Tel : +82-31-219-1552
  • Fax : +82-31-214-1554
  • E-mail : gsis@ajou.ac.kr

Notes

Detailed qualifications, required documents, schedule and scholarship can be changed a little year by year, so you should visit official website of KGSP ( , ) to get more detailed information before application.

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• Regulation (PDF DOWNLOAD)
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