Materials Science and Engineering (Undergraduate) — Gachon University

Explore materials science and engineering through Gachon University’s undergraduate entry. The department’s education objectives include foundational and applied knowledge of ceramics, metals and polymers. Its academic fields include structural materials, optical and electronic materials, and nano, bio and energy materials. Confirm the current undergraduate course plan and access to laboratory or research activities.

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Course details

Qualification

Undergraduate degree entry

Teaching provider

Gachon University

Campus

Global Campus, Seongnam; confirm department and laboratory teaching locations

Teaching language

These units use the guide’s ordinary Korean-track admission conditions. Confirm the actual language of lectures, laboratory work and assessment, and the Korean-study support required for you; English website text is not English-medium course evidence.

Study mode

Confirm undergraduate lecture, laboratory and research-participation arrangements

Entry requirements

The guide permits applications without a Korean-language score for these ordinary Korean-track units; this does not guarantee admission, English-taught classes or exemption from Korean study. Optional Korean-language evidence has specified test, course and validity conditions: obtain the checklist for your chosen route. The compulsory-study table lists two semesters of intensive Korean for first-year entrants in its TOPIK/TOPIK iBT Level 3-or-below group, seventeen credits per semester and thirty-four credits in total; the transfer reference is one semester and twelve credits. If you have no score, ask the university how placement and compulsory study apply to you. TOPIK/TOPIK iBT Level 4-or-above holders must submit the score within the orientation-specified period to obtain the stated exemption; late or in-study submission does not provide a mid-course exemption. Applicants and both parents must meet the foreign-nationality category; Korean nationality and Korean/foreign dual nationality are excluded. Confirm other dual-nationality or nationality-change cases, including the before-high-school-entry condition. First-year entry requires recognised regular schooling and high-school graduation, expected graduation or an accepted equivalent; the guide excludes its listed online, adult, distance, equivalency-examination and homeschooling routes for freshman entry. Transfer has separate diploma or four-year-university routes; on the latter, year-two entry requires two completed regular semesters and thirty credits, and year-three entry four regular semesters and sixty credits. Credit recognition or additional subjects may extend the nominal remaining study period. These units fall under the ordinary document-assessment route, listed at 100 points; the Medical Science video-interview rule is not their standard selection rule. Confirm the exact award, study arrangements and any separate professional or teaching-credential requirements; admission does not guarantee a licence, employment or recognition abroad. Any score submitted must be valid at application. For Korean-track graduation, the guide requires TOPIK/TOPIK iBT Level 4 or completion of the university’s alternative programme where the score is not achieved. The alternative programme is at the student’s cost; confirm its current conditions and price.

Course fees

The Spring 2027 guide lists tuition of KRW 5,718,800 per semester for this Engineering category. Budget review may increase the charge, and any difference must be paid: this listed reference is not the final 2027 invoice. A separate KRW 150,000 undergraduate application fee is not tuition. The guide allows an application-cancellation request before the application deadline with a full application-fee refund; after the deadline, exceptions depend on the applicable grounds and evidence. Tuition withdrawal or visa-refusal refunds have separate procedures, request deadlines and class-start conditions. Obtain the current written terms and confirm accommodation, insurance, study materials, practical-study costs and scholarship conditions before paying. No annual total, net fee after scholarships or compulsory-Korean course charge is established here. A graduation alternative programme, if required, is at the student’s cost; its price is not established here.

Intake

Spring 2027 undergraduate recruitment has three rounds. First-round applications closed on 23 October 2026; applicants already registered in that round have a document-arrival deadline of 28 October at 12:00. Later published application periods are 23 November at 10:00–4 December 2026 at 16:00, with documents arriving by 9 December at 12:00, and 28 December 2026 at 10:00–4 January 2027 at 16:00, with documents arriving by 6 January at 12:00. The guide explicitly uses Korea time for document arrival and tuition payment; confirm application time-zone treatment, available places and any schedule changes. Freshman and transfer are application routes for this academic unit.

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