Q. What kinds of funding opportunities are available for foreigners studying in Korean graduate programs?
A. Many graduate programs in Korea offer anywhere from 50% to nearly 100% tuition waivers to native English speakers. Below I have included a links to GSIS programs (Graduate School of International Studies). When I attended Korea University, they offered similar scholarships for all academic graduate programs and some professional programs. Imagine other universities will offer similar packages.
Yonsei's GSIS
Yonsei's GSIS
http://gsis.korea.ac.kr/
http://gsis.korea.ac.kr/
Hanguk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) GSIS
http://gsis.korea.ac.kr/
Hanguk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) GSIS
http://www.niied.go.kr/
This last one is a Korea government scholarship available to international students pursuing graduate degrees in Korea and offers funding for an additional year of Korean language study, up front. If you visit the English language version of the site and click on (Revised)Application Guideline for 2011 KGSP_GRADUATE you can find information about the 2011 cycle. It looks like the application deadline closes at the end of February 2011, so if you are interested, you might want to jump on this as soon as possible.
With this scholarship, you study Korean for one year, fully funded. Assuming you achieve TOPIC Level 3 by the end of the year, you are funded for an additional two years if you applied to a masters program or an additional three years if you applied to a doctoral program. TOPIK has six levels, with Level 6 being the most advanced. For those familiar with the DLPT, I would guess that a 2/2/2 on the DLPT would be roughly equivalent to a 3-4 on the TOPIK. Either way, a fully funded year of language study is not too shabby.
Incidentally, the TOPIK will be offered for the first time ever in Seattle this April 2011! If you would like to sign up for it, contact the UW Center for Korea Studies at uwcks@uw.edu.
Q. What are some of the major universities in Korea?
A. The Obviously Yonsei and KU are among the top schools in South Korea. Some other highly ranked, high quality institutions in Seoul include Ewha Women's University, Sogang University, HUFS, Kyung Hee University, Hanyang University, and Sung Kyun Kwan University. Outside of Seoul, the better universities tend to be national universities such as Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), Chonnam National University in Gwangju, Kyungbuk National University in Taegu, and Jeju National University in Jeju.
Q. How do Korean universities structure their school year and which term should I enter?
A.The Korea in school year begins with the spring semester in late February or early March. Admissions deadlines will probably be sometime mid-fall. Many graduate programs in Korea admit every semester through "regular selection" at the beginning of the school year and "special selection" halfway through. This will be especially true of those that regularly admit international students. Admissions deadlines for the fall quarter will probably be in February or March. Back in 2004 I entered a graduate program during "special selection" in the fall term but didn't feel there was much of a difference beginning mid-year.
Q. What was your experience with Korean univerities?
Q. Are you aware of any funding opportunities for study in Korea?
Q. What additional questions do you have about studying in Korea?
This last one is a Korea government scholarship available to international students pursuing graduate degrees in Korea and offers funding for an additional year of Korean language study, up front. If you visit the English language version of the site and click on (Revised)Application Guideline for 2011 KGSP_GRADUATE you can find information about the 2011 cycle. It looks like the application deadline closes at the end of February 2011, so if you are interested, you might want to jump on this as soon as possible.
With this scholarship, you study Korean for one year, fully funded. Assuming you achieve TOPIC Level 3 by the end of the year, you are funded for an additional two years if you applied to a masters program or an additional three years if you applied to a doctoral program. TOPIK has six levels, with Level 6 being the most advanced. For those familiar with the DLPT, I would guess that a 2/2/2 on the DLPT would be roughly equivalent to a 3-4 on the TOPIK. Either way, a fully funded year of language study is not too shabby.
Incidentally, the TOPIK will be offered for the first time ever in Seattle this April 2011! If you would like to sign up for it, contact the UW Center for Korea Studies at uwcks@uw.edu.
Q. What are some of the major universities in Korea?
A. The Obviously Yonsei and KU are among the top schools in South Korea. Some other highly ranked, high quality institutions in Seoul include Ewha Women's University, Sogang University, HUFS, Kyung Hee University, Hanyang University, and Sung Kyun Kwan University. Outside of Seoul, the better universities tend to be national universities such as Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), Chonnam National University in Gwangju, Kyungbuk National University in Taegu, and Jeju National University in Jeju.
Q. How do Korean universities structure their school year and which term should I enter?
A.The Korea in school year begins with the spring semester in late February or early March. Admissions deadlines will probably be sometime mid-fall. Many graduate programs in Korea admit every semester through "regular selection" at the beginning of the school year and "special selection" halfway through. This will be especially true of those that regularly admit international students. Admissions deadlines for the fall quarter will probably be in February or March. Back in 2004 I entered a graduate program during "special selection" in the fall term but didn't feel there was much of a difference beginning mid-year.
Q. What was your experience with Korean univerities?
Q. Are you aware of any funding opportunities for study in Korea?
Q. What additional questions do you have about studying in Korea?
