Ph. D. Qualifying Examination in July 2025
1. 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.
2. When?
1) Application forms must be submitted to administrative office(email only) of the School of Electrical Engineering
- Submission Period: June 9(Mon) – 20(Fri),
- Scanned file(pdf) : e-mail(danielyoon@kaist.ac.kr)
2) Evaluation of Ph. D Qualifying Exam. is being done in the middle of July 2025.
3) Qualified candidates will be announced at the end of July 2025.
3. 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)
4. 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
5. 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.
