Students studying at Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) schools in Korea, including KAIST, will now be able to enlist in courses at other partner universities. Administration leaders from the STEM schools including KAIST, GIST(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), DIST(Daegu Institute of Science and Technology), UNIST(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), and POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) signed an agreement on November 28 in the meeting hall of the Auditorium (E15), acknowledging the need for educational collaboration in and out of individual science and technology-based schools. Under this agreement, the students of these five universities can enroll in classes at each other’s school and get credit for the course upon completion.

Students should reader the rules for signing up for and enrolling in classes of their respective universities. The students enrolled in the partner schools’ courses may freely use facilities of the partner school such as libraries, computer labs, laboratory settings, and other welfare facilities reserved for the school’s own students, throughout the duration of the course,

The number of credits an exchange student can take differs from university to university, but in case of KAIST, the administration is allowing a maximum of twelve credits. This newly signed agreement, whereby five science and technology universities exceling in different fields of study aim to build a pioneering educational model, is expected to bring positive results to each constituent university. Hyun Wook Park, KAIST’s administration leader, who led this chartered school system, said, “If the five colleges open their doors wide and collaborate with one mind, then we will be able to have a big synergy effect on our engineering education.”