Qualifications: All the following conditions must be met.
1) The applicant and his or her parents must be foreign nationals.
※ Exception: A Taiwanese student with one Korean and one Taiwanese parent (exceptionally) qualifies as an international student.
※ A naturalized citizen of a foreign country qualifies as an international student if both the applicant and his or her parents have acquired the citizenship before the applicant begins a high school curriculum that is equivalent to the high school curriculum of Korea.
※ Dual nationality is NOT honored.
2) Other qualifications
▶ New admissions: Foreign nationals qualify who have completed all the curricula of elementary and secondary schools (middle school and high school) or their equivalents in Korea or overseas.
▶ Transfer admissions: Foreign nationals qualify who have completed all the curricula of elementary and secondary schools (middle school and high school) or their equivalents AND who have completed at least two academic years of college education (in terms of credit-hours) in Korea or overseas. Transfer students will be admitted to junior class. (Transfer to sophomore class is not allowed.)
* Students are not eligible to apply for transfer who have attended private colleges or universities that are not authorized by educational authorities or whose diplomas do not bear degree numbers. In these cases, admissions will be canceled even after they are admitted and enrolled.
* In the case of two-year(or three-year) colleges, only those who have acquired a college degree can apply for transfer. Prospective graduates are also eligible.
* Applicants who have passed a high school diploma qualification examination in foreign countries cannot apply for admission.
3) Language proficiency: The following conditions must be met.
Minimum qualifications (At least one condition must be met among the following.)
a. TOPIK Grade 3 or better
b. Soongsil Korean proficiency test Grade 4 or better
c. Completed the level 5 course or higher at a Korean language institute affiliated with a four-year Korean university.
d. TOEFL iBT 80 (CBT 210, PBT550) or better
e. IELTS 5.5 or better f. TEPS 550 or better g. Studied in an English-speaking country
h. Other test scores or certificates that prove the applicant's Korean or English language proficiency
* Admitted students must acquire TOPIK Grade 4 or better in order to graduate from Soongsil University. (This condition does not apply to those who have submitted a valid English score.)
Evaluation procedures: exclusively based on document evaluations
▶ A personal statement (or a letter of self-introduction) and a language proficiency score(s) submitted by the applicant will be comprehensively evaluated.
▶ Details related to this procedure will not be made public.
▶ If submitted documents turn out to be false or incomplete, then the applicant will be excluded from the assessment process.
