KAIST’s Academic Register Team provides the Honor Program, where registration opens every semester to honor undergraduate students who possess outstanding grades. One of the benefits provided by the academic office is that qualified undergraduate honor students can register for graduate curriculum courses.

Any student with the following qualifications is eligible to enlist in the program: an undergraduate student who is within six semesters, has earned 81 or more credits, and received a GPA of 3.7 or above by the preceding semester. Qualified students will then be recognized as an “Honor Student” by the recommendations from his or her academic advisor and the head of the department. However, a student who entered KAIST before 2006 and did not exceed the regular time period of study in the bachelor’s degree program can still qualify as an honor student and can apply regardless of the six-semester period of enrollment criterion.

From March 4 to 15, an application form for the Honor Program and academic records were to be submitted to the Academic Register Team, with recommendations from the student’s academic advisor and the head of the department.

Honor students can take the graduate curriculum courses with an approval by the faculty in charge of the course. The earned course credits can be added into the total credits for the undergraduate graduation requirements. Course credits through the Honor Program during undergraduate studies can be counted as those of master’s degree program by applying and registering the credits within a year of entering the master’s program. However, course credits will not be transferred to the master’s program if the total GPA by the undergraduate graduation is not 3.7 or above.