Requirements for the Completion of Graduate Program

Program

Category
Combined
Master’s Doctoral
master’s/doctoral

At least 4 years
Required Years for
At least 2 years (1 year can be
Completion
shortened)

24 credits 36 credits 36 credits

(at least 3.0 GPA) (at least 3.0 GPA) (at least 3.0 GPA)

※ In case of graduate course designated as group Ⅱ,

students will earn separate, distinct credits when subtitles

Minimum differ from each other.

Credit
Requirements Credit
Requirements ※ Students in doctoral program must not retake courses
for the
they already took in the master’s program.
Completion of
(Students will not earn credits twice).
Graduate
Program
※ Students can earn the maximum of 6 credits from taking
undergraduate courses.

Thesis Course Can be Can be

Can be recognized
Credit recognized recognized within
within 18 credits
Requirements within 6 credits 12 credits

Students who Students who Students who

registered for at registered for at registered for at least
Qualification
Qualifying least 2 semesters least 2 semesters 4 semesters and
for Application
Examination and earned at and earned at earned at least 36

for least 9 credits least 9 credits credits

submission of <Students admitted from 2008 to 2017> NEW TEPS: 298

Dissertation (TEPS 551) / TOEFL(CBT): 213, (IBT): 79
English Score
<Students admitted since 2018> NEW TEPS: 327(TEPS 601) /
TOEFL: 86

Submission of 4 years after the 6 years after the 6 years after the
Dissertation Deadline completion of completion of completion of
and program program program
Dissertation Submitting an application form for extending the deadline:
Examination extension of 2 years
Extension of
Deadline Registering for research student
exceeding the submission of dissertation:
extension of extra 3 years

1. Publication of
at least 2 theses
on SCIE
international
journal (should be
a lead author in
at least 1 thesis.)

2. Publication of
Submission of at at least 1 thesis
Same as doctoral
least one thesis on related journal
program
to domestic or which is ranked
foreign top 20% in
※ Publication of at
journal(domestic impact factor as a
least 1 thesis on
journal should be lead author and
SCIE international
registered or a publication of at
Requirements journal or domestic
candidate for least one thesis
for Graduation journal (registered
registry of on journal which
or a candidate for
National Research is either
registry of National
Foundation of registered or a
Research Foundation
Korea) candidate for
of Korea) within 3
※ Lead author registry of
years after
and co-author are National Research
admission
allowed. Foundation of
Korea

※ A student must
be a lead author
of 1 thesis, and
both lead author
and co-author are
allowed for the
rest.
 1. Students in master’s, doctoral, and combined
master’s/doctoral program must take the seminar for a total
of 2 semesters
Students
2. Students cannot take the seminar additionally if they took
admitted from
the seminar for 2 semesters in masters’ program (Students
2007 to 2013
cannot take credits)
Seminar on
※ Students admitted in the latter semester of 2006 must
Earth
take the seminar for 1 semester
Environmental
1. Students in master’s program must take the seminar for 1
Science
semester
(3345.777)
2. Students in master’s, doctoral, and combined
Students
master’s/doctoral program must take the seminar for a total
admitted since
of 2 semesters
2014
3. Students admitted to doctoral program after taking the
seminar for 1 semester in master’s program should take the
seminar for 1 semester only in doctoral program

Students
All students must take, but cannot be recognized as a
admitted from
completion credit.
2017 to 2018

Research Ethic
(990.501A)

Students
This subject have been lifted from the compulsory subjects
admitted since
and cannot be recognized as a completion credit.
2019

Regarding the
course Students
All students must take, but cannot be recognized as a
Understanding admitted from
completion credit.
Research Ethics Fall 2021
(M2480.000100)