The applicant and his/her parents must hold foreign citizenship.

Applicants who hold Korean citizenship are not permitted to apply for this program.

Applicants must be under 40 years of age of the selection year.

Applicants must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree as of September 1st of the selection year.

Applicants who have previously enrolled in or graduated from an undergraduate program, a master's program, or a doctoral program (including exchange program) in Korea are ineligible to apply for the program.

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Account Benefit Applicants must maintain a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.64 on a 4.0 scale, 2.80 on a 4.3 scale, 2.91 on a 4.5 scale, or grades/marks/score of 80%(out of 100%) or higher from the previously attended institution. If the applicant does not satisfy the above GPA requirements, he/she will be ineligible to apply to this program.

As for detained information on application deadline and submission of required documents, applicants should contact the appropriate Korean Embassy or consult in the country of applicants origin (or in the neighboring country).

Applicants directly from an applicant or through foreign embassies in Korea without recommendation of the organization in charge of the 1st round of selection are not accepted. To know more information please visit Here.

The 1st selection institutions (Overseas Korean embassies or Domestic designated universities) will draft a selections standard based on the criteria provisioned by NIIED, and will recommend qualified applicants according to its respective standards.

The NIIED selection committee will select the most successful candidates from the pool of applicants recommended by the 1st selection institutions.

Only candidates who were recommended by a Korean embassy and have passed the 2nd selection successfully will be evaluated for admission. Successful candidates will gain admission from at least one of the three universities.