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1971

Founded

10,249

Students

39

Programmes to choose from

Overview

About KAIST

KAIST (originally the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first public, research-oriented science and engineering institution. KAIST has 10,504 full-time students and 1,342 faculty researchers (as of the Fall 2019 Semester) and had a total budget of US$765 million in 2013, of which US$459 million was from research contracts.

In 2007, KAIST first began partnering with international institutions to adopt dual degree programs for its students. The current list of partner institutions includes New York University, the Technical University of Denmark, Carnegie Mellon University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, and the Technical University of Munich.

Memberships & networks

  • Association of Pacific Rim Universities
  • KESLI Consortium
  • Association of East Asian Research Universities

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Key facts

Founded

1971

Type

Public research university

Location

Daejeon, South Korea

Students

10,249

Reported 2013

Programmes with us

39

Programmes

39 programmes to choose from

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Overview text adapted from Wikipedia (KAIST), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo: Original uploader was Dr.aleks at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5