ADMISSION GUIDE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS (FALL 2012) SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
CONTENTS Wecome...1 Admissions Timeine.... 2 Admissions Criteria... 3 Appication Instructions... 3 Important Notes for A Appicants....7 Important Notes about APOSTILLE Requirements...... 9 Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin....... 10 Admissions Eigibiity and Requirements....10 A. Common Eigibiity of Language Proficiency B. Eigibiity of Each Degree Course Undergraduate Freshman Appicants Undergraduate Transfer Appicants Master s Program Appicants Doctora Program Appicants Submitting Your Appication. 15 Korean Language Program.... 17 Schoarships..... 17 Housing...... 17 Appendix 1: Programs Offered for Admission. 18 Appendix 2: Contact Information.... 23 Appendix 3: Tuition..... 24 Appendix 4: The ist of countries for Apostie certificates...... 25 Appendix 5: Seou Nationa University Campus Map......... 26
Wecome to SNU Internationa Admissions Thank you for your interest in Seou Nationa University. Our programs are among the most prestigious in Korea and recognized gobay for producing reputabe eaders and schoars in their respective fieds. Students wi discover here a dedication to maintaining high standards in both education and research, in addition to a weath of resources for career aspirations. The University wecomes students from a variety of backgrounds and recognizes that internationa students provide diverse perspectives and contribute to a dynamic earning atmosphere. Once enroed, students are encouraged to take advantage of the cose-knit internationa community and readiy accessibe group of advisors at the Office of Internationa Affairs. Internationa admission is offered for undergraduate and graduate programs in 16 coeges and 5 professiona schoos. Whie there is no eary admissions process, students may choose to appy for the Spring or Fa semester every year. This booket contains information regarding your appication options to SNU, categories of candidates, and the admissions criteria. For more information about other aspects of the admissions process, pease consut the admissions staff at the foowing contact: Office of Admissions Website: http://en.snu.ac.kr Emai: snuadmit@snu.ac.kr Teephone: +82-2-880-6971/6977 Fax: +82-2-873-5021 Maiing Address: Office of Admissions Seou Nationa University 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu Seou 151-742, KOREA If you are in Seou, you may visit us at the Office of Admissions, Room #401, Buiding #150 of the Gwanak campus. 1
Admissions Timeine SNU s academic year begins in the Spring. The university offers admissions for the Fa semester as we as the Spring. Pease note the foowing important dates: Order Deadine Notes 1. On-ine Appication ²Freshmen ²Transfer ²Graduate Jan. 9 (Mon), 2012 ~Feb. 28 (Tue),2012 (by 6:00pm) * Find Internationa Admission at the SNU website and create an account during the specified period (Korean) http://admission.snu.ac.kr (Engish) http://en.snu.ac.kr * Entrance to the program is in Fa 2012. 2. Submission of Documents (Send by post or visit in person) ²Freshmen ²Transfer ²Graduate Jan. 9 (Mon), 2012 ~Feb. 29 (Wed),2012 (by 6:00pm) The required documents shoud arrive at the SNU Office of Admissions by this date. Appicants must have aready competed the onine appication. The venue for document submission is expected to draw very arge crowds cose to deadine. To ensure proper handing of your case, pease submit your documents as eary as possibe. 3. Performance Test (for undergraduate appicants of Korean origin who received the entire education abroad) Mar. 29 (Thu), 2012 * Ony appies to undergraduate appicants of Korean origin appying to the foowing programs : Fine Arts, Music, or Physica Education * The detais wi be notified individuay by the representatives of the reevant Coege/Department directy. 4. Announcement of Admissions Decision Apr. 20 (Fri), 2012 * Resuts wi be posted on the SNU website (Korean) http://admission.snu.ac.kr (Engish) http://en.snu.ac.kr 5. Registration Aug. 2012 (TBA) * At the branches of NongHyup Bank nationwide. 6. Korean Proficiency Test Aug. 2012 (TBA) * The abovementioned SNU website wi indicate those who are required to take the Korean Proficiency Test on the admission resut announcement screen. The dates above are subject to change without a prior notice. Pease Note 1. If it is not possibe to appy onine during the designated period, appicants may submit their appication materias via post or in person. Ony accepted if the documents arrive before the deadine: Feb. 28 th 2012. In such case, pease make sure to incude the appication fee with your appication packet. 2. The dates and deadines isted above are in accordance to the appication process for the Fa 2012 semester. 2
Admissions Criteria Admissions decisions are based on the candidate s academic achievements and potentia, as we as his or her persona accompishments. The admissions committee reviews a number of factors records of past studies such as Grade Point Average (GPA), study pan, persona statement, and etters of recommendation. Other achievement records and specific quaifications such as anguage proficiency are aso taken into consideration. The candidate s appication is reviewed in the context of the eve of studies competed, quaity of achievements, and characteristics of institutions attended. Finay, the appropriateness of the appicant s academic goas and the suitabiity of preparation for the proposed program of studies are assessed. Interviews, examinations, and/or additiona documents may be required from the appicant, based on the poicy of the specific coege or department. If the appicant is appying to the Fine Arts, the Music, the Department of Physica Education or the Fine Arts Education Major, the appicant wi be notified individuay as necessary. Appication Instructions Pease observe the foowing instructions before beginning your appication. Form 1: Appication Form Form 1 contains your persona information. Pease specify your desired area of study, using Appendix 1 of this booket as a reference. Undergraduate Freshmen Appicants: Indicate the coege and corresponding admissions unit. Undergraduate Transfer Appicants: Indicate the coege and department. Graduate Appicants: Indicate the coege or professiona schoo and corresponding major. Fi out this form at the SNU website (http://admission.snu.ac.kr or http://en.snu.ac.kr), according to the specifications in the section tited Submitting Your Appication on page 15. The appication fee ( 90,000) must be paid onine with this portion of the appication. NOTE: If you are unabe to make the payment onine, pease incude the fee in your appication package with the rest of the appication materias to be submitted via post or in person. The fee shoud be in the form of a bank draft (US$75) payabe to Office of Admissions, SNU. š Form 2: Persona Statement & Study Pan Persona Statement This is an opportunity for you to convey the information about yoursef and your accompishments that coud not be adequatey expressed through other portions of the appication. 3
Incude famiy background, academic achievements, extracurricuar commitments and accompishments, vounteer work, empoyment experience, and your reasons for appying to SNU. Other appropriate topics may incude the foowing but not imited to: persona interests, pastime activities, opinions on music, the arts, etc. Study Pan The Study Pan shoud state your academic goas and career aspirations. You may incude questions that you hope to answer through your program of study and/or a timeine for how you pan to meet your objectives. It is advised that you review the requirements for the desired degree. We recommend that you discuss your academic goas with a teacher or professor prior to composing your study pan. š Form 3: Recommendation Two etters of recommendation from teachers or professors are required. Compete your part of this form and, aong with a stamped and addressed enveope, suppy them directy to two recommenders who know you we. Be sure to give them adequate time to compete the forms before the appication deadine. Recommendations shoud be seaed in an officia enveope and signed across the back by the recommenders. Your recommenders shoud give us their appraisas of the contributions you made in their casses or academic fieds. They are asked to give their persona impressions about your character, inteectua abiity, aptitude in research, and the quaity of your previous works and potentia. š Form 4: Financia Certification Form 4 shoud ist the avaiabe financia resources for your tuition and other expenses. No other documents reated to sponsorship are necessary. NOTE: If admitted, the foowing ist of documents wi be required for the issuance of visa: bank statements, certificate of empoyment / business registration, tax payment information, etc. š Transcripts, Graduation Certificates, Degree Certificates These documents detai your academic achievements and are required from every institution that you ve attended in the past (excuding eementary & midde schoo records). Transcripts must provide a record of the courses you have taken in each year of study aong with the fina grades. If an institution cannot provide a year-by-year record, then the schoo officia must at east provide us with a isting of the discipines you have studied (i.e. Engish, Bioogy, History, etc.) and a summary of your achievements in each. 4
Pease submit officia transcripts as issued directy by the institutions you have attended. You must aso submit officia evidence of the conferras of a degrees, dipomas, or professiona tites showing the date of the conferras (month and year). š Additiona Materias Other reevant materias may be required, according to the poicy of the specific coege or department that you are appying to. Appicants to the Fine Arts, the Music, the Department of Physica Education or the Fine Arts Education Major shoud submit appropriate portfoios, videotapes, CDs, tapes, or other indicators of artistic or athetic abiity. NOTE: Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. š Suppementary Materias APPLICANTS TO UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 1) Records of tests and various awards attained in high schoo wi be considered in the admissions decision if submitted. w The reevant country s quaifying test for high schoo graduation or university admission test: British GCE A-Leve, Japanese Admission Center Exam, Chinese Unified Exam, German Abitur, French Baccaaureate, etc. w Standardized tests and other indicators of academic achievement: IB Dipoma, IB Certificate, AP, SAT, AICE, AEA, etc. w w Records of acceerated and rigorous coursework: AP, IB, Honors, etc. Officia etter or other document by the high schoo that indicates the appicant s cass rank or percentie (if not stated in appicant s academic transcript) w Proof of anguage proficiency: TOPIK, KLPT, TEPS, TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIK, HSK, JLPT, DELF/DALF, DELE, ZD, etc. 2) Officia schoo introduction/profie(s) pubished by the appicant s high schoo or the government education ministry wi be considered in the admissions decision. The introductory document may incude information on the high schoo s curricuum, avaiabiity of acceerated and rigorous academic tracks, size of student body, grade distribution of enroed students, distribution of standardized test performance, student seection process, admissions requirements and ratio of students entering higher institutions. APPLICANTS TO GRADUATE PROGRAMS Proof of anguage proficiency: TOPIK, KLPT, TEPS, TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIK, HSK, JLPT, DELF/DALF, DELE, ZD, etc. Academic awards, certificates, test reports (GRE, GMAT, etc.) š 5
Engish Proficiency Appicants shoud submit a score report of a recognized Engish Proficiency Test (TOEFL, TEPS, IELTS, TOEIC or any other supporting documents which demonstrate appropriate anguage proficiency). Native speakers of Engish are exempt from this requirement. N.B. Depending on the academic department, faiing to demonstrate one s Engish proficiency may adversey affect one s candidacy for acceptance. NOTE: We accept TOEFL scores sent to us directy by ETS if it arrives before deadine. The officia ETS code of SNU is 7972. You may submit a photocopy of the Examinee s Score Report for review purposes ony, but this is not a substitute for an officia score report. š Korean Proficiency Appicants shoud submit a score report of a recognized Korean Proficiency Test [Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), Korean Language Proficiency Test (KLPT) or any other supporting documents which demonstrate appropriate anguage proficiency.] N.B. Depending on the academic department, faiing to demonstrate one s Korean proficiency may adversey affect one s candidacy for acceptance. Based on the submitted appication materias, the admissions committee wi decide whether each admitted student shoud take the additiona test or not. Admitted students who are notified for the Korean Proficiency Test at SNU Language Education Institution (LEI) shoud refer to the test schedue incuded in the Reference Guide for the Admitted Internationa Students for the date and ocation of the test. Note: The foowing individuas can be exempt from the Korean Proficiency Test at SNU LEI and whether or not this rue appies wi be determined by the department in which the appicant appied: 1) He or she was admitted to the Graduate Schoo of Internationa Studies for Internationa Commerce, Internationa Cooperation or Internationa Area Studies. 2) He or she hods a Bacheor s degree from SNU. 3) He or she hods a Master s degree from SNU. 4) He or she competed and passed Leve 5 or above at the SNU Language Education Institute. 5) He or she received Leve 5 or above on the Korean Proficiency Test administered by a Korean Embassy or Consuate. Students whose Korean proficiency is beow the eve required to effectivey participate in cass (i.e. Leve 4 and beow) wi be required to take Korean Language casses at the SNU Language Education Institute (http://ei.snu.ac.kr) at their own expense. Whether or not this rue appies wi be determined by the department in which the student is enroed. 6
Important Notes for A Appicants SNU does not generay acknowedge internationa schoos ocated in Korea as foreign schoos. A documents shoud be in Engish or Korean. Documents in any other anguage shoud be accompanied by a notarized Engish or Korean transation issued by the country in which the document was originay produced. If any of the submitted materias contain fase information, admission wi be rescinded. Origina documents shoud be submitted. Shoud they be unavaiabe, however, copies must be authorized by the originating institution before they are submitted. Students whose graduations were pending at other institutions during the time of appication shoud submit their Graduation Certificates and the Certificates of their degrees to the Office of Admissions within 15 days after their enroment at SNU. Faiure to submit this document may revoke the admission offer. Undergraduate transfer appicants of Korean origin must submit the entire record of their Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit. In case of submission of fase or unverifiabe information (especiay those resuting from mutipe passport handing) or faiure to submit a of the requisite records may adversey affect one s candidacy for acceptance. Undergraduate transfer appicants must submit a of the reevant documents from their respective universities (i.e., officia transcripts, etters of attendance, etc.) to demonstrate the current matricuation status and attendance at their present bacheor s degree program. Be sure to make and keep photocopies of a competed forms. Submitted documents become property of SNU and wi not be returned to the appicants. The appication fee is nonrefundabe. Admitted students may not defer enroment to a ater semester. Students who wish to defer enroment must re-appy. Korean citizens who hod dua citizenship are considered as Appicants of Korean Origin. They are not eigibe to appy as foreign students. Those appicants who were admitted to SNU within the ast 5 years through internationa admissions and intend to appy to a Master s or Doctora program are exempt from submitting the foowing: Officia certificates of graduation and transcripts from schoos and/or universities outside of Korea Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parent Appicants exempt from submitting any of the above documents shoud submit the Certificate of Attendance or Graduation at SNU instead. 7
Pease be sure that the University issues ony the Certificate of Admissions for student VISA (type: D2) appication for the admitted students. However, for information on submitting the Approva Number of Visa Issuance for Chinese students, pease refer to the Office of Internationa Affairs website (http://oia.snu.ac.kr/info/visa). A transfer and graduate appicants must submit a document that verifies the current institution is equivaent to a four-year coege/university. Verification of Academic Record form wi be part of the appication and you wi be abe to print upon competion of onine appication. Detaied account of individua admissions decision for each appicant cannot be discosed. Pease be sure that, in principe, any modification or canceation wi not be accepted after competing the appication. Appicants shoud take fu responsibiity for any disadvantages due to the mistakes or omissions on the appication. Foreign students, whose parents are not citizens of Korea and have obtained their entire education abroad, may submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit issued by the Korea Immigration Office, as a substitute for the certificate of parents-chid reationship and copies of parents passport. If the appicant does not have the means to obtain the certificate and cannot receive assistance from someone residing in Korea, he/she must submit the Permission of Inquiry of Certificate of Entry and Exit (Form5) as a substitute. Pease verify the accuracy of the information on the required form as the appicant wi take fu responsibiity for any disadvantages arising from errors or omission of the necessary information on the form. Appicants who transferred during their prior course of studies, must submit their fu compete academic records from a of the appicabe institutions incuding Transcripts and Certificate of Graduation/Attendance. If the appicant appies through more than one registration number (dupicate appication), he/she wi be disquaified from the admission. Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions regarding the additiona materias (portfoio, photographs of works, recordings of performances, etc.) provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. 8
Important Notes about APOSTILLE Requirements For Newy Admitted Students Since Juy 14, 2007, the Repubic of Korea has been part of the 1961 Hague Convention aboishing the Requirement of Legaization for Foreign Pubic Documents. The Convention provides for the simpified certification or pubic (incuding notarized) documents to be used in countries that have joined the convention. The Apostie ensures that pubic documents issued in one signatory country wi be recognized as vaid in another signatory country. Apostie certificates are to be submitted within 15 days after enroment at SNU. For information regarding how to get an Apostie, pease refer to the website www.hcch.net. A. Newy admitted students from countries which are signatories to the convention must meet the foowing requirements: Pease refer to the ist of signatory countries on Apostie certificates in Appendix 4. 1. Officia certificates (transcripts, dipomas, etc.) from pubic schoos or institutions shoud be submitted with the attachment of Apostie. 2. Officia certificates (transcripts, dipomas, etc.) from private schoos or institutions, however, shoud be officiay notarized by a notary, agency or any other authority competent under the aw of the country of origin of the certificates, and then, shoud be submitted with the attachment of Apostie. N.B. A documents shoud be in Engish or Korean. accompanied by a notarized Engish or Korean transation. Document in another anguage shoud be B. Admitted students from countries which are NOT signatories to the convention and do not recognize the Apostie must meet the foowing requirements: 1. Officia certificates (transcripts, dipomas, etc.) must be egaized by a Korean consuar officer in the country which issued the certificates. 2. Appicants from these countries shoud submit the officia certificates with the attachment of an Authentication (ex. Certificate of Authentication or Certificate of Overseas Educationa Institutions) issued by the Korean Embassy or Consuate. N.B. A documents shoud be in Engish or Korean. accompanied by a notarized Engish or Korean transation. Document in another anguage shoud be 9
Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin Appicants of Korean origin who competed their entire education (primary, secondary, postsecondary) outside of Korea must submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit. 1. The certificate must contain compete records from birth to present and if there are any missing records, appicant must submit the Certificate of Attendance corresponding with the vacant period aong with the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit. 2. If the appicant has modifications to their persona information (from being naturaized as a foreign citizen, change of name, issuance of a new passport and etc.), he/she must submit compete records of their entry and exit from birth to present incuding those records from prior to the appicabe change. 3. If the appicant does not have the means to obtain the certificate and cannot receive assistance from someone residing in Korea, he/she must submit the Permission of Inquiry of Certificate of Entry and Exit (Form5) as a substitute. Pease verify the accuracy of the information on the required form as the appicant wi take fu responsibiity for any disadvantages arising from errors or omission of the necessary information on the form. Appicants of Korean origin are exempt from submitting the foowing documents: 1. Financia Certificate (Form 4) 2. Copies of both parents passports (or other officia documents indicating your parents' nationaity) 3. Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parents Undergraduate freshman appicants ony: If you are an appicant of Korean origin appying to programs in the Fine Arts, Music, or Physica Education, you wi be required to take a performance test on campus. The appropriate coege or department wi notify you regarding the schedue of such tests after your appication has been processed. Admissions Eigibiity and Requirements A. Common Eigibiity of Language Proficiency Appicants must satisfy at east one of the Language Proficiency conditions isted beow. (1) Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) eve 3 or higher (2) TOEFL (PBT 550, CBT 210, ibt 80), IELTS 5.5, TEPS 551 or higher (3) Any other supporting documents of Engish or Korean Proficiency which coud be considered equivaent or higher than the criteria mentioned above. (ex: Other nationay recognized anguage score report from the appicant s country, high schoo profie, university curricuum description, etc.) 10
B. Eigibiity of Each Degree Course Eigibiity requirements for each category of candidates are expained in the foowing pages. Eigibiity status must be met by Aug. 31, 2012. Submitted documents become the property of SNU and wi not be returned to the appicants. Documents that are not in Engish or Korean must be accompanied by an Engish or Korean notarized transation issued by the country in which the document was originay produced. Unusua cases and individua circumstances wi be given consideration for internationa appicants. Ⅰ. Eigibiity for Appication Undergraduate Freshman Appicants Internationa appicants must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she is a graduate of high schoo; 2) His or her parents are not citizens of Korea Appicants of Korean origin must have received his or her entire primary and secondary (eementary, midde schoo and high schoo) education outside of Korea NOTE: If you and/0r your parents are citizens of Korea, pease see Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin on page 10. Ⅱ. Required Documents for Undergraduate Freshman Appicants 1. One competed Appication Form (Form 1, Print out after competing onine appication) 2. Persona Statement and Study Pan (Form 2, in Engish or Korean) 3. Two Letters of Recommendation (Form 3) from your teachers or professors 4. Officia High Schoo Transcript and Graduation Certificate 5. A copy of the appicant s passport 6. Copies of both parents passports (or other officia documents indicating parents nationaity) 7. Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parents Foreign students, who have received entire education outside of Korea, may submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit issued by the Korea Immigration Office, instead of the documents regarding parents-chid reationship and parents passports. 8. Financia Certification (Form 4) 9. Additiona materias for appicants to programs in the Fine Arts, Music and Physica Education (portfoio, photographs of works, recordings of performances, etc.) Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. 10. Suppementary materias (see page 5) 11. Certificate proving the Engish or Korean proficiency (see page 6) 12. Agreement for Verification of Academic Record Upon competion of a required onine procedures, you must print out the Form and sign your name on the Letter of Agreement portion. Do not fi out the Verification Report portion. 11
Ⅰ. Eigibiity for Appication Undergraduate Transfer Appicants Internationa appicants must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she must have received at east two years in a degree program at a four-year university or a Bacheor s degree program; 2) His or her parents are not citizens of Korea. Internationa appicants who have received their entire eementary, midde schoo, high schoo, and at east two years of university education at a four-year university (or a Bacheor s degree program) outside of Korea. NOTE: If your parents are citizens of Korea, pease see Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin on page 10. Ⅱ. Required Documents for Undergraduate Transfer Appicants 1. One competed Appication Form (Form 1, Print out after competing onine appication) 2. Persona Statement and Study Pan (Form 2, in Engish or Korean) 3. Two Letters of Recommendation (Form 3) from your teachers or professors 4. Officia Transcript and Graduation Certificate from high schoo 5. Officia university transcript of academic records and a Certificate of Attendance indicating that appicant is currenty enroed at the university 6. A copy of the appicant s passport (or other officia document indicating your nationaity) 7. Copies of both parents passports (or other officia documents indicating parents nationaity) 8. Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parents Foreign students, who have received entire education outside of Korea, may submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit issued by the Korea Immigration Office, instead of the documents regarding parents-chid reationship and parents passports. 9. Financia Certification (Form 4) 10. Additiona materias for appicants to programs in the Fine Arts, Music and Physica Education (portfoio, photographs of works, recordings of performances, etc.) Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. 11. Suppementary materias (see page 5) 12. Certificate proving the Engish or Korean proficiency (see page 6) 13. Agreement for Verification of Academic Record Upon competion of a required onine procedures, you must print out the Form and sign your name on the Letter of Agreement portion. Do not fi out the Verification Report portion. 12
Master's Program Appicants Ⅰ. Eigibiity for Appication Internationa appicants must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she hods a Bacheor s degree, or is considered by the admissions committee to have an acceptabe inteectua competence at the eve of someone hoding an equivaent or higher degree; 2) He or she is not a citizen of Korea; 3) His or her parents are not citizens of Korea Appicants of Korean origin must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she received entire eementary, midde schoo, high schoo, and undergraduate education outside of Korea at the comparabe and equivaent eve of those provided in Korea; 2) He or she hods a Bacheor s degree, or is considered by the admissions committee to have an acceptabe inteectua competence at the eve of someone hoding an equivaent or higher degree. NOTE: If you and/0r your parents are citizens of Korea, pease see Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin on page 10. Ⅱ. Required Documents for Master s Program Appicants 1. One competed Appication Form (Form 1, Print out after competing onine appication) 2. Persona Statement and Study Pan (Form 2, in Engish or Korean) 3. Two Letters of Recommendation (Form 3) from your professors 4. Officia documents: Officia Undergraduate Studies Transcript Notarized Certificate of a Bacheor s Degree / Undergraduate Graduation Certificate NOTE: If you are currenty enroed in an undergraduate program, you shoud submit an officia document that indicates your expected date of graduation. Note: Transcripts and Certificates from Chinese universities MUST be accompanied by verification from the China Academic Degree & Graduate Education Deveopment Center. Refer to the website http://www.cdgdc.edu.cn 5. A copy of the appicant s passport (or other officia document indicating your nationaity) 6. Copies of both parents passports (or other officia documents indicating parents nationaity) 7. Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parents Foreign students, who have received entire education outside of Korea, may submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit issued by the Korea Immigration Office, instead of the documents regarding parents-chid reationship and parents passports. 8. Financia Certification (Form 4) 9. Additiona materias for appicants to programs in the Fine Arts, Music, Physica Education and Fine Arts Education Major (portfoio, photographs of works, recordings of performances, etc.) Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. 10. Suppementary materias (see page 5) 11. Certificate proving the Engish or Korean proficiency (see page 6) 12. Agreement for Verification of Academic Record Upon competion of a required onine procedures, you must print out the Form and sign your name on the Letter of Agreement portion. Do not fi out the Verification Report portion. 13
Ⅰ. Eigibiity for Appication Doctora Program Appicants Internationa appicants must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she hods a Master s degree, or is considered by the admissions committee to have an acceptabe inteectua competence at the eve of someone hoding an equivaent or higher degree; 2) He or she is not a citizen of Korea; 3) His or her parents are not citizens of Korea Appicants of Korean origin must meet a of the foowing requirements: 1) He or she received entire eementary, midde schoo, high schoo, and undergraduate education outside of Korea at the comparabe and equivaent eve of those provided in Korea; 2) He or she hods a Master s degree, or is considered by the admission committee to have an acceptabe inteectua competence at the eve of someone hoding an equivaent or higher degree. NOTE: If you and/0r your parents are citizens of Korea, pease see Notes for Appicants of Korean Origin on page 10. Ⅱ. Required Documents for Doctora Program Appicants 1. One competed Appication Form (Form 1, Print out after competing onine appication) 2. Persona Statement and Study Pan (Form 2, in Engish or Korean) 3. Two Letters of Recommendation (Form 3) from your professors 4. Officia documents: Officia Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Transcripts Notarized Certificates of Bacheor s and Master s Degrees Graduation Certificates of Undergraduate and Graduate NOTE: If you are currenty enroed in a graduate program, you shoud submit an officia document that indicates your expected date of graduation. NOTE: Transcripts and Certificates from Chinese universities MUST be accompanied by verification from the China Academic Degree & Graduate Education Deveopment Center. Refer to the website http://www.cdgdc.edu.cn 5. A copy of the appicant s passport (or other officia document indicating your nationaity) 6. Copies of both parents passports (or other officia documents indicating parents nationaity) 7. Officia document indicating parent-chid reationship between the appicant and his/her parents Foreign students, who have received entire education outside of Korea, may submit the Certificate of Facts Concerning the Entry and Exit issued by the Korea Immigration Office, instead of the documents regarding parents-chid reationship and parents passports. 8. Financia Certification (Form 4) 9. Additiona materias for appicants to programs in the Fine Arts, Music, Physica Education and Fine Arts Education Major (portfoio, photographs of works, recordings of performances, etc.) Appicants appying to the Fine Arts or Music must refer to the instructions provided on the appicabe Coege s homepages. 10. Suppementary materias (see page 5) 11. Certificate proving the Engish or Korean proficiency (see page 6) 12. Agreement for Verification of Academic Record Upon competion of a required onine procedures, you must print out the Form and sign your name on the Letter of Agreement portion. Do not fi out the Verification Report portion. 14
Submitting Your Appication Appication Form 1. The standard method for submitting Form 1 of the appication is via the NOTICE of website; (http://admission.snu.ac.kr) or (http://en.snu.ac.kr). The appication fee ( 90,000) shoud be paid onine as we. 2. For Fa 2012, the deadine for onine appication is 18:00 (oca time Korea), Feb. 28 th, 2012. A reevant information must be entered, and the appication fee paid, prior to this time. Appicants who fai to appy onine due to unforeseen circumstances must appy in person at the Office of Admissions before 18:00 of this date. 3. The appication fee ( 90,000) must be paid onine with this portion of the appication. NOTE: If you are unabe to pay the appication fee via our internet payment process, you shoud incude the fee with the appication materias you send by mai. The fee shoud be in the form of a bank draft (US$75) payabe to Office of Admissions, SNU. 4. Appicants whose forms and supporting documents are incompete or unsatisfactory wi be disquaified from the admissions process. Origina documents shoud be submitted. Shoud they be unavaiabe, however, copies must be authorized by the originating institution before they are submitted. Documents that are not in Korean or Engish must be accompanied by a notarized Korean or Engish transation issued by an appropriate organization in the country in which the document was originay produced. On-ine Appication 1. Find a NOTICE concerning Internationa Admission on SNU Admissions website (http://admission.snu.ac.kr) or (http://en.snu.ac.kr) and open the on-ine appication program and create your own account. 2. According to the instruction, type in a the required information for each step of on-ine appication. 3. A high voume of connections are anticipated on the deadine; competing the appication prior to the deadine is recommended. 15
Submission of Required Documents 1. After competing your onine appication, print out the competed Appication Form1 and the Appication Checkist. 2. Pease mark and pace the appication checkist in front of the appication packet, and arrange the appication materias in the order isted on the checkist. 3. Send your appication packet via registered mai by Feb. 29 th, 2012, aong with the required documents to the foowing address: Office of Admissions Seou Nationa University, 1, Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu Seou, Korea, 151-742 The admissions staff reserves the right to require additiona documents from the appicant, shoud there be a need to carify the eigibiity or verify the authenticity of submitted materias. 16
Korean Language Program The Korean Language & Cuture Program (KLCP) is part of the Language Education Institute at SNU estabished for the benefit of foreigners and ethnic Koreans residing abroad. The comprehensive program addresses knowedge of the Korean anguage as we as Korean cuture. Since its founding, over 19,000 students from over 90 countries have graduated from KLCP, and the program has grown to about 2,000 annua enroments. Join the KLCP for a fuer experience of Korea! For more information, contact to the website: http://ei.snu.ac.kr; teephone: +82-2-880-5488/8570; emai: kp@snu.ac.kr. NOTE: For information regarding the Korean Proficiency Test for appicants, pease see Appication Instructions. Schoarships Schoarships for prospective students Korean Government Schoarships: The Korean Government offers schoarships for foreigners studying in Korea. Interested appicants shoud contact the oca Korean Embassy in their country. Other schoarships from SNU: A number of schoarship programs are avaiabe for internationa graduate students. For more information, pease refer to our website. (http://www.useou.edu/ admissions graduate schoarships) Schoarships for enroed students After competing one semester successfuy, you can appy for the university schoarship. It exempts entire whoe or partia tuition fees. Seection for awards is based on academic record and other factors. For detais on how to appy, pease contact your department office after entering SNU. Housing Appications for housing shoud be directed to the reevant dormitory office during the student seection period. For further information, do not hesitate to contact the administration Office of Gwanak-sa (website; http://dorm.snu.ac.kr/eng/; teephone: +82-2-880-5404) 17
Appendix 1: Programs Offered for Admission Shown beow are the programs offered for admission for each category of appicants. Pease refer to the appropriate ist. Programs Offered for Admission >>> Undergraduate Freshman Appicants Undergraduate freshman appicants shoud appy to the desired coege & unit as isted beow. Students seect their majors according to reguations after competing the first or second year. Names of departments and programs are subject to sight variation. Humanities Coege & Unit Humanities Unit Ⅰ Humanities Unit Ⅱ Socia Sciences Group Socia Sciences Anthropoogy / Geography Group Mathematics / Statistics Physics & Astronomy Natura Chemistry Sciences Bioogica Sciences Earth & Environmenta Sciences Nursing Business Administration Mechanica & Aerospace Engineering Chemica and Bioogica Engineering Department of Eectrica and Computer Engineering Schoo of Computer Science and Engineering Engineering Materias Science and Engineering Civi and Environmenta Engineering Agricuture and Life Sciences Fine Arts Education Engineering Group Program in Architecture (5-yr program) Agricutura Economics & Rura Deveopment Pant-Forest Sciences Unit Agricutura Biotechnoogy Unit Biosystems Landscape Architecture Unit Crafts and Design Orienta Painting Painting Scupture Department of Education Korean Language Education Foreign Language Education Group Socia Sciences Education Group Department of Ethics Education Mathematics Education Sciences Education Group Physica Education Consumer and Chid Studies Human Cothing & Texties Ecoogy Food and Nutrition Veterinary Medicine Voca Music Composition Music Instrumenta Music Korean Music Medicine Humanities & Socia Sciences Libera Studies Science & Engineering Major Korean Language & Literature, Chinese Language & Literature, Engish Language & Literature, French Language & Literature, German Language & Literature, Russian Language & Literature, Hispanic Language & Literature, Linguistics Korean History, Asian History, Western History; Phiosophy, Reigious Studies, Aesthetics, Archaeoogy and Art History(Archaeoogy major, Art History major) Department of Poitica Science and Internationa Reations, Economics, Socioogy, Psychoogy, Socia Wefare, Communication Anthropoogy, Geography Mathematica Sciences, Statistics Physics, Astronomy Chemistry Bioogica Sciences Earth and Environmenta Sciences Nursing Business Administration Mechanica and Aerospace Engineering Chemica and Bioogica Engineering Eectrica and Computer Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Materias Science and Engineering Civi and Environmenta Engineering Program in Architectura Engineering; Industria Engineering; Nucear Engineering; Nava Architecture and Ocean Engineering Program in Architecture (5-yr program) Agricutura Economics; Regiona Information Pant Science (Crop Science and Biotechnoogy, Horticutura Science; Vocationa Education Human Resource Deveopment); Forest Sciences (Forest Environmenta Science; Environmenta Materias Science) Appied Bioogy and Chemistry (Appied Life Chemistry; Appied Bioogy); Food and Anima Biotechnoogy (Food Science and Biotechnoogy; Anima Science and Biotechnoogy) Biosystems & Biomaterias Science and Engineering (Biosystems Engineering; Biomaterias Engineering); Landscape Architecture and Rura System Engineering (Landscape Architecture; Rura System Engineering) Crafts; Design Orienta Painting Painting Scupture Education Korean Language Education Engish Language Education; German Language Education; French Language Education Socia Studies Education; History Education; Geography Education Ethics Education Mathematics Education Physics Education; Chemistry Education; Bioogy Education; Earth Science Education Physica Education Consumer Studies ; Famiy & Chid Studies Cothing & Texties Food and Nutrition Pre-Veterinary Medicine Program Voca Music Composition Major; Eectronic Music Major;Conducting Major; Theory Major Piano, Strings, Woodwind/Brass/Percussion Instrumenta; Theory; Composition; Voca Pre-Medica Program Humanities & Socia Sciences Science & Engineering 18
Programs Offered for Admission >>> Undergraduate Transfer Appicants Undergraduate transfer appicants shoud appy to the desired department as isted beow. Transfer admission is not offered for the Pre-Medica and Pre-Veterinary Medicine Programs, the Medicine, the Dentistry, the Pharmacy and the Law. Names of departments and programs are subject to sight variation. Coege Humanities Socia Sciences Natura Sciences Nursing Business Administration Engineering Agricuture and Life Sciences Fine Arts Education Human Ecoogy Music Veterinary Medicine Department Korean Language & Literature, Chinese Language & Literature, Engish Language & Literature, French Language & Literature, German Language & Literature, Russian Language & Literature, Hispanic Language & Literature, Linguistics; Korean History, Asian History, Western History; Phiosophy, Reigious Studies, Aesthetics, Archaeoogy and Art History(Archaeoogy major, Art History major) Department of Poitica Science and Internationa Reations(Poitica Science major, Internationa Reations major), Economics, Socioogy, Psychoogy, Socia Wefare, Communication, Anthropoogy, Geography Mathematica Sciences, Statistics, Physics & Astronomy, Chemistry, Bioogica Sciences, Earth System Sciences Nursing Business Administration Program in Architectura Engineering; Industria Engineering; Nucear Engineering; Nava Architecture and Ocean Engineering; Mechanica and Aerospace Engineering; Chemica and Bioogica Engineering; Materias Science and Engineering; Eectrica and Computer Engineering; Civi and Environmenta Engineering; Program in Architecture (5-yr program); Computer Science and Engineering; Energy Resources Engineering Agricutura Economics & Rura Deveopment (Agricutura Economics; Community Deveopment); Pant Science (Crop Science and Biotechnoogy, Horticutura Science, Vocationa Education Human Resource Deveopment); Forest Sciences (Forest Environmenta Science; Environmenta Materias Science); Appied Bioogy and Chemistry (Appied Life Chemistry; Appied Bioogy); Food and Anima Biotechnoogy (Food Science & Biotechnoogy; Anima Science and Biotechnoogy); Biosystems and Biomaterias Science and Engineering (Biosystems Engineering; Biomaterias Engineering); Landscape Architecture and Rura System Engineering (Landscape Architecture; Rura System Engineering) Crafts and Design; Orienta Painting; Painting; Scupture Education; Korean Language Education; Engish Language Education; German Language Education; French Language Education; Socia Studies Education; History Education; Geography Education; Ethics Education; Mathematics Education; Physics Education; Chemistry Education; Bioogy Education; Earth Science Education; Physica Education Consumer and Chid Studies (Consumer Studies; Famiy and Chid Studies) Food & Nutrition; Cothing & Texties Voca Music; Composition (Composition Major; Conducting Major; Theory Major); Instrumenta Music (Piano, Strings, Woodwind/Brass); Korean Music (Instrumenta, Theory, Composition, Voca) Veterinary Medicine Programs Offered for Admission >>> Master s Program Appicants Appicants to master s programs shoud appy to the desired coege or professiona schoo and corresponding major. Names of departments and programs are subject to sight variation. # means a Dept. or Major of WCU(Word Cass University) program. HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Coege Department / Schoo Interdiscipinary Programs Humanities Socia Sciences Business Administration Agricuture and Life Sciences Law Education Korean Language and Literature; Chinese Language and Literature; Engish Language and Literature; French Language and Literature; German Language and Literature; Russian Language and Literature; Hispanic Language and Literature; Linguistics; Korean History; Asian History; Western History; Phiosophy (Eastern Phiosophy Major; Western Phiosophy Major); Reigious Studies; Aesthetics; Archaeoogy and Art History (Archaeoogy Major; Art History Major) Department of Poitica Science and Internationa Reations(Poitica Science major; Internationa Reations major); Economics; Socioogy; Anthropoogy; Psychoogy; Geography; Socia Wefare; Communication Business Administration Agricutura Economics & Rura Deveopment (Agricutura Economics Major; Community Deveopment Major) Law Education (Foundations of Education Major; Education Technoogy Major; Educationa Counseing Major; Education Administration Major; Life-Long Education 19 Cassica Studies Major; Cognitive Science Major; Comparative Literature Major; Archiva Science Major; Performing Arts Studies Major Gender Studies Major Music Education Major; Fine Arts Education Major;
Human Ecoogy Graduate Schoo of Pubic Administration Graduate Schoo of Internationa Studies Major); Korean Language Education (Teaching Korean as Foreign Language Major); Foreign Language Education (Engish Education Major; German Education Major; French Education Major); Socia Studies Education (Socia Studies Education Major; History Major; Geography Major); Ethics Education; Physica Education (Sports Science Major; Human Exercise Major, Goba Sports Management Major) Consumer Studies and Resource Management; Chid Deveopment and Famiy Studies Pubic Administration(Pubic Administration major, Pubic Poicy major) Internationa Studies (Internationa Commerce Major; Internationa Cooperation Major; Internationa Area Studies Major; Korean Studies Major) NATURAL SCIENCES 20 Home Economics Education Major; Specia Education Major; Environment Education Major; Eary Chidhood Education Major, Goba Education Cooperation Major Coege Department / Schoo Interdiscipinary Programs Natura Sciences Nursing Agricuture and Life Sciences Education Human Ecoogy Pharmacy Graduate Schoo of Pubic Heath Graduate Schoo of Environmenta Studies Mathematica Sciences; Statistics; Physics & Astronomy; Chemistry; Bioogica Sciences; Earth and Environmenta Sciences, #Department of Biophysics and Chemica Bioogy, #Brain & Cognitive Sciences Nursing (Materna-chid and Psychiatric Nursing; Adut Nursing; Community and Nursing care Systems) Pant Sciences (Crop Science and Biotechnoogy Major; Horticutura Science Major); Forest Sciences (Forest Environmenta Science Major; Environmenta Materias Science Major); Biosystems and Biomaterias Science & Engineering (Biosystems Engineering Major; Biomaterias Engineering Major); Landscape Architecture & Rura System Engineering (Landscape Architecture Major; Rura System Engineering Major); Agricutura Biotechnoogy(Anima Science and Biotechnoogy Major, Appied Life Chemistry Major, Pant Microbioogy Major, Entomoogy Major, Food Science and Biotechnoogy Major, #Biomoduation Major); Agricutura & Vocationa Education Mathematics Education; Science Education (Physics Education Major; Chemistry Education Major; Bioogy Education Major; Earth Sciences Education Major) Food and Nutrition; Cothing and Texties Pharmacy (Pharmacoogy Major; Pharmaceutica Bioscience Major; Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutica Anaysis Major; Pharmaceutica Heath Science Major; Pharmaceutica Chemistry Major; Pharmaceutics Major; Natura Products Science Major) Heath Science and Services (Major in Pubic Heath I; Major in Heath Care Management and Poicy I); Environmenta Heath1 Environmenta Panning (City and Regiona Panning, Transportation Management, Environmenta Management); Landscape Architecture ENGINEERING History and Phiosophy of Science Major; Genetic Engineering Major; Neuroscience Major; Bioinformatics Major; Computationa Science and Technoogy Major Agricutura Biotechnoogy Major Coege Department / Schoo Interdiscipinary Programs Engineering Graduate Schoo of Convergence Science and Technoogy Architecture; Energy Systems Engineering; Eectrica Engineering and Computer Science; Materias Science and Engineering; (#Hybrid Materias Major); Mechanica and Aerospace Engineering;(#Mutiscae Mechanica Design Major); Civi and Environmenta Engineering; Chemica and Bioogica Engineering ;(#Chemica Convergence for Energy & Environment Major) ; Industria Engineering and Nava Architecture Nano Science and Technoogy; Digita Contents Convergence; Inteigent Convergence Systems; #Moecuar Medicine and Biopharmaceutica Science MEDICAL SCIENCES Bioengineering; Technoogy Management Economics and Poicy Major; Urban Design Major Coege Department / Schoo Interdiscipinary Programs Medicine Department of Biomedica Sciences, Medicine (Anatomy Major; Physioogy Major; Biochemistry Major; Pathoogy Major; Microbioogy Major; Pharmacoogy Major; Preventive Medicine Major; Parasitoogy Major; Forensic Medicine Major; Biomedica Engineering Major; Heath Poicy and Management Major; Interna Medicine Major; Genera Surgery Major; Pediatrics Major; Obstetrics & Gynecoogy Major; Orthopedic Surgery Major; Uroogy Major; Otoaryngoogy Major; Thoracic Surgery Major; Neurosurgery Major; Psychiatry Major; Ophthamoogy Major; Dermatoogy Major; Radioogy Major; Anesthesioogy and Pain Medicine Major; Pastic Surgery Major; Radiation Oncoogy Major; Laboratory Medicine Major; Rehabiitation Medicine Major; History of Medicine and Medica Humanities Major; Nucear Medicine Major; Nucear Medicine Major; Famiy Medicine Major; Emergency Medicine Major; Immunoogy Major; Moecuar & Genomic Medicine Major; Moecuar and Cinica Oncoogy Major; Neuroscience Major) Tumor Bioogy Major; Cinica Pharmacoogy Major; Radiation Appied Life Science Major, Interdiscipinary Program of Medica Informatics