KAIST Daejeon

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology or KAIST is an establishment of higher learning in Daejeon. The institute is situated in heart of South Korea located in the

Daedock Research Park in the midst of academe. The institute came to light in 1981 through the merging of Korea Advanced Institute of Science with Korea Institute of Science and Technology by the KAIST Law. The university laid its foundation stone for the onset of the bachelor's program, currently there are almost seven thousand students and almost eight hundred teaching staff. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology is hailed to be the Korean Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the only under the Ministry of Science and Technology. The institute aims to furnish highly certified scientists and engineers to execute long term and mid range applied research. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology is regarded as the most esteemed science technology of the country. It is the pioneer in exporting the high technology wares from all over the world. The institute picks up the exceptional second-year undergraduate from the country science schools. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology is the chosen one for the position of first among the best IT and engineering universities of Asia. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology has the official slogan is "Education for the World, Research for the Future" with the symbol of liquid crystals.

The university is a member of LAOTSE, an international network of leading universities in Europe and Asia with the main campus in Yuseong, Daejeon and other in the Hongneung Campus, Seoul.

There are many areas of specialization in the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology at Daejeon.

•  Industrial Engineering Dept

•  Biosystems Dept

•  Mechanical Engineering Dept

•  Dept. of Industrial Design

•  Dept. of Physics

•  Mathematics Dept

•  Chemistry Dept

•  Dept. of Computer Science

•  Electrical Engineering Dept

•  Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

•  Dept. of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering

•  Dept. of Material Science and Engineering

•  KAIST Language Center

•  Vietnamese Students Group

•  Department of Biological Sciences