The role of the International Office of KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and

Technology)

Hyunsook Min

Coordinaor

International Relations Team

KAIST was established by the government under a special law in 1971 as the nation's first graduate school for

science and engineering education and research. In 2008, KAIST is ranked 95th among the World's Top 200

Universities selected by The Times (of London). In the area of engineering and information technology, it is

ranked 34th

and in natural sciences, 46th. KAIST ranked first in JoongAng Ilbo newspaper's annual evaluation of

universities in Korea in 2008.

KAIST is located at Daedeok Innopolis in the city of Daejeon, 150 kilometers south of the capital city of

Seoul. Daedeok Innopolis is the home to some 60 government-supported and private research institutes, four

universities and 142 high-tech and venture companies. KAIST’s Daedeok and Seoul campuses house seven

colleges (Natural Science, Life Science & Bioengineering, Engineering, Information Science & Technology,

Interdisciplinary Studies, Business, and Cultural Science), eight research institutes and five affiliate schools.

Under its long-term vision of becoming one of the best science and technology universities in the world,

KAIST has focused on research in basic, influential and technically innovative fields. KAIST has founded eight

KAIST (Research) Institutes (KIs) to intensively support researches in core fields of global competitiveness.

The key elements of KAIST’s Five-year Plan (2007-2011) are as follows:

1. Increase the number of undergraduate students from 700 per to 1,000 per year

2. Increase the number of tenure-track faculty to 700

3. Secure government support for doubling our best budget in five years

4. Contribute to society and S & T through original and creative research

5. Improve and increase facilities for education and research

6. Improve productivity and performance of everyone in KAIST

7. Concentrate our resources to solve important problems of the 21st

century

8. Concentrate our resources where we have unique strengths

As of the first semester of 2008, there are 8,217 students enrolled; 3,586 in the bachelor’s, 2,776 in the

master’s, 644 in M.S.–Ph.D. joint, and 1,855 in the doctorate program. International students account for 7

percent of the total enrollment and foreign professors occupy 13% of the total faculty.

To achieve KAIST globalization, we, Office of International Relations, are working hard as follows:

1. To raise international visibility of KAIST

International Presidential Forum on Global Research Universities (http://forum.kaist.ac.kr)

Technical tours to leading international institutions by representative KAIST professors to have

seminars or make presentations on their research areas

Upgrade KAIST International PR

2. To promote international collaboration & exchanges

Increase dual degree programs with internationally renowned universities

Increase courses offered in English

Offer KAIST Summer International Session (http://summer.kaist.ac.kr)

Open KAIST America Office in Silicon Valley & overseas liaison offices

3. Recruitment of international students to the KAIST undergraduate program

4. To realize campus globalization

Organize various cultural activities for international students, faculty, researchers, and their

family members

Open International Student Center

Provide convenience facilities for international students

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