- Who?
1) Doctoral Students who entered the KAIST in or before 2008
– Application within three years after entrance
– Doctoral Students who have not yet taken Ph.D. Qualifying Exam.
– Doctoral Students who have registered more than two semesters taking at least three classes
2) Doctoral Students who entered the KAIST in or after 2009
– Application within one and a half years after entrance
※ Students who have transferred must pass the qualification exam of the current
department within three semesters from the transferred semester.
- When?
1) Application forms must be submitted to administrative office(email only) of the School of Electrical
Engineering
Submission Period: December 8(Mon) – 12:00, December 31(Wed),
Scanned file(pdf) : e-mail(danielyoon@kaist.ac.kr)
2) Evaluation of Ph. D Qualifying Exam. is being done in the middle of January 2026.
3) Qualified candidates will be announced at the end of January 2026.
- What to be submitted?
1) Application form (#attached file below)
2) Plan for dissertation (#attached file below)
3) Other achievements (#attached file below)
– A copy of the references that proof the applicants’ excellences such as patents, awards, and
Published papers)
- Allotted point
|
Item |
Point |
Document relative to each item |
|
GPA |
50 |
Applicant’s GPA |
|
Plan for dissertation |
40 |
Plan for dissertation |
|
Other achievements |
10 |
References that proof the applicant’s excellence |
|
Total |
100 |
|
※ accumulated GPA of 2.5 or below / U grade of thesis research in the previous semester :
automatically eliminated during document evaluation
- Notes
– The Ph. D Qualifying examination is scheduled in January and July respectively.
– Those who don’t pass the Ph. D Qualifying Examination will be expelled from KAIST.
