| (1)Segment |
Korean governmental-led higher education institution aimed at fostering highly qualified researcher. |
| (2) President |
Chang-Sun Hong |
| (3) Campuses |
Seoul campus and Daejeon campus |
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| (4) Constitution |
2 graduate schools, 4 faculties, 13 departments, 10 institutes, and 29 research centers |
| (5) Number of Students |
7,162 (undergraduate students: 2,901, graduate students: 1,852, doctor course students: 2,409) |
| (6) Number of academic Stuffs |
394 (Professors: 280, Associate Professors: 69, Assistant Professors: 45) |
| *(4)-(6) are data in 2003. |
| (7) Origins |
Prototype of KAIST was Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIS), which was established in 1971. In 1981, the Institute merged with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), thus producing KAIST. In 1989, KIST and KAIS were separated again. KAIS then merged with the Korea Institute of Technology (KIT), a government-funded undergraduate college for science and engineering. This new academic institution retained the name KAIST. |
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1. KAIST was ranked as the best science and technology universities throughout Asia for two consecutive years (1999, 2000) by Asiaweek. |
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2. In Korea, KAIST was recognized and saluted by the JoongAng Ilbo Nationwide University Evaluations for four consecutive years (1998-2001). |
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3. The Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET), a U.S. organization for evaluation institutes of higher education in science and engineering, rated KAIST graduate programs as being in the top 10% in relation to U.S. colleges and universities for the first time in Asian nations in 1992. |
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4. International Collaborations Agreements with 50 international universities and research institutes in 20 countries for cooperation through exchange of personnel, joint research, information exchange, etc.
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5. International cooperative education and research: Cooperative programs with the worldwide outstanding universities; KAIST-MIT, KAIST-Michigan, KAIST-Stanford.
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