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Nov 24, 1980

Approval for establishment of Graduate School (master's program)

Newly established departments: Urban Administration, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Landscape Architecture --- Capacity 40 students

Nov 25, 1981 New Graduate School departments: Architectural Engineering, Public Administration +10 = 50 capacity
Nov 22, 1982 New Graduate School department (master's program): Business Administration +8 = 58 capacity
Oct 29, 1983

Approval for establishment of doctorate's program

Established departments: Urban Administration, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering = 18 capacity

New Graduate School department (master's program): Electronic Engineering (internal capacity adjustment) = 58 capacity

Nov 27, 1984

New Graduate School departments

Master's: Accounting, Economics, Law, International Trade +25 = 83 capacity

Doctorate's: Architectural Engineering (internal capacity adjustment) = 18 capacity

Nov 9, 1987

New Graduate School departments and capacity increase

New departments (master's program): Environmental Horticulture, Urban Planning, Korean Language and Literature, Industrial Art +61 = 144 capacity

New departments (doctorate's program): Business Administration, Economics +28 = 46 capacity

Nov 30, 1988

New Graduate School departments and capacity increase

Master's: English Language and Literature newly established +20 = 164 capacity

Doctorate's: Department of Law newly established +9 = 55 capacity

Nov 6, 1989 Graduate School (master's program): +20 = 184 capacity
Nov 9, 1990

New Graduate School departments and capacity increase

Master's: Korean History, Computer Science and Statistics newly established +6 = 190 capacity

Doctorate's: Landscape Architecture, Electronic Engineering, Urban Planning newly established +10 = 65 capacity

Nov 15, 1991

New Graduate School departments and capacity adjustment

Master's program +25 = 215 capacity

Doctorate's: Environmental Horticulture, Korean Language and Literature newly established +35 = 100 capacity

Jul 28, 1992

New Graduate School departments and capacity adjustment

Master's program +24 = 239 capacity

Doctorate's program +26 = 126 capacity

Sep 4, 1993

New Graduate School departments, department name changes and capacity adjustment

Master's program newly established: Department of Mathematics

Name change: Urban Planning → Urban Engineering +24 = 263 capacity

Doctorate's program +10 = 136 capacity

Oct 18, 1995

Graduate School department and capacity adjustment

Master's program newly established: Control and Instrumentation Engineering

Master's program +80 = 343 capacity

Doctorate's program +36 = 172 capacity

Nov 2, 1996

New Graduate School departments and admission capacity increase

  • Newly established Tax Studies, Transportation Engineering, Materials Engineering, Precision Mechanical Engineering (4 departments) 29 students
  • 1997 Change in Graduate School capacity management method: Total capacity system → Admission capacity system

    • • Master's program (201 capacity)
      • - Humanities and Social Sciences 64, Natural Sciences 26, Engineering 108, Arts and Physical Education 3
    • • Doctorate's program (69 capacity)
      • - Humanities and Social Sciences 19, Natural Sciences 89, Engineering 42
Oct 25, 1997

Graduate School admission capacity increase

Master's: Including newly established Physics and Semiconductor Engineering, +54 = 255 capacity

Doctorate's: Newly established Control and Instrumentation Engineering, +5 = 74 capacity

Nov 13, 1998

Graduate School department establishment, merger, capacity adjustment

  • Master's program

    • - Including newly established Life Sciences, +6 = 261 capacity
    • - Electronic Engineering, Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering → Merged into Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Doctorate's program

    • - Including newly established Korean History, +2 = 76 capacity
    • - Electronic Engineering, Control and Instrumentation Engineering → Merged into Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nov 2, 1999 Graduate School increase: 71 (53 master's, 18 doctorate's)
Jul 18, 2000

Graduate School capacity +11 (6 master's, 5 doctorate's)

  • Newly established Social Welfare master's program
  • Department name changes

    • - Electronic and Electrical Engineering → Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • - Precision Mechanical Engineering → Mechanical and Information Engineering
    • - Computer Science and Statistics → Computer Science and Statistics
Aug 1, 2000 Graduate School Academic Affairs and Academic Administration integrated → Separated into Academic Affairs and Academic Management
Jul 28, 2001

Graduate School capacity +26 (15 master's, 11 doctorate's)

Newly established departments

  • - Master's: Urban Sociology, Nanoscience and Technology
  • - Doctorate's: Department of Life Sciences
Oct 30, 2002

Graduate School capacity adjustment

  • Doctorate's program +10, Newly established Industry-University-Research Cooperative Program (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) +3
  • Master's program +18, Industry-University-Research Cooperative Program (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) newly established +4
  • Newly established departments: Geoinformatics (master's), Architecture (master's/doctorate's)
  • Industry-University-Research Cooperative Program (master's/doctorate's) newly established: Agreement with Korea Institute of Science and Technology

    ※ Recruitment unit name change: General Graduate School Materials Engineering → Advanced Materials Engineering

Sep 27, 2003

Graduate School capacity adjustment

Decrease by 5 (master's), Industrial Design major and Product Design major within Industrial Art department (abolished), Tax Studies (abolished)

  • - Recruitment unit name change: Industrial Art → Environmental Sculpture
  • - Major fields: Computer Science and Statistics → Separated into Computer Science major and Statistics major
Sep 2004

2005 Graduate School Doctorate's program establishment (autonomous decision within total capacity)

  • Newly established departments: 2 Doctorate's programs, 9 students

    • - Department of Geoinformatics: 4 students
    • - Department of Social Welfare 5 students
  • Decrease: 2 master's programs, 9 students

    • - Department of Geoinformatics: -4 (8 → 4)
    • - Department of Social Welfare -5 (15 → 10)
Aug 29, 2005

2006 Academic Year Graduate School capacity adjustment

  • Capacity adjustment between degree programs

    • - Newly established: Interdepartmental Cooperative Doctorate's program 5 (Nanoengineering)
    • - Reduction: Doctorate's program -5 = 133 → 128 capacity
  • Department consolidation

    • - Business Administration + Accounting ⇒ Business Administration, International Trade + Economics ⇒ Economics
Sep 7, 2006

2007 Academic Year Graduate School capacity adjustment

  • Capacity adjustment between degree programs

    • - Increase: Interdepartmental Cooperative program +1 = 5 → 6 capacity
    • - Decrease: Doctorate's program -1 = 128 → 127 capacity
  • Newly established Interdepartmental Cooperative Disaster Science (doctorate's program)
Jul 27, 2007

2008 Academic Year Graduate School department establishment and capacity increase

  • Newly established departments: Master's program in 1 department (within the total capacity of the Department of Music)
  • Capacity increase: 53 students

    • - Master's program +33 = 354 → 387 capacity
    • - Doctorate's program +20 = 136 → 156 capacity
Oct 27, 2008

2009 academic year graduate school department closure and establishment, capacity adjustment

  • Department closure: Law Department for master's and doctorate's programs
  • Department establishment: Two doctorate's programs (Philosophy, Urban Sociology)
  • Capacity adjustment

    • - Master's program -5 = 387 → 382 capacity
    • - Doctorate's program +5 = 156 → 161 capacity
Oct 15, 2009

2010 academic year graduate school department establishment

Establishment of the master's and doctorate's programs in Urban Environmental Systems Engineering (within the total capacity)

Jul 15, 2010 Change of the name of Urban Environmental Systems Engineering to Energy and Environmental Systems Engineering
Nov 29, 2010

2011 Academic Year Graduate School department establishment and capacity increase

  • Separate establishment of Department of Statistics (Natural Sciences) and Computer Science Department (Engineering)
  • Establishment of master's program in Department of Sports Information (Arts & Sports)
  • Capacity increase

    • - Master's program +5 = 382 → 387 capacity
Feb 25, 2013

Department name changes

Department of Sports Information → Department of Sports Science

Oct 22, 2013

New Graduate School departments

Master's: Department of Chinese Language and Culture

Oct 30, 2014

New Graduate School departments

Doctorate's: Department of Sports Science

Sep 5, 2017

New Graduate School departments

Master's: Department of Law

Nov 13, 2018

New Graduate School departments

Doctorate's: Department of Art Design

Apr 24, 20194

New Graduate School departments

• Master's/doctorate's: Department of Smart City

Nov 6, 2019

New Graduate School departments

Master's/doctorate's: Department of Urban Big Data Convergence

Apr 12, 2021

New Graduate School departments

Master's/doctorate's: Department of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Convergence and Applied Chemistry

Aug 3, 2021

New Graduate School departments

Doctorate's: Department of International Urban Development

Dec 28, 2022

Establishment and capacity increase for advanced departments in the Graduate School (120 master's students, 41 doctorate's students, total increase of 161)

  • New establishment: Department of Intelligent Semiconductor with a capacity of 52 for master's program, 13 for doctorate's program
  • Capacity increase:

    • - Department of Statistics and Data Science increase (+18 master's, +7 doctorate's)
    • - Department of Smart City increase (+32 master's, +14 doctorate's)
    • - Department of Artificial Intelligence increase (+18 master's, +7 doctorate's)
Feb 1, 2023

Change of graduate school department name:

Change of graduate school department name:

Nov 27, 2023

Signing of dual degree agreement (France Université Paris Cité)

Mar 1, 2024

Change of graduate school department name:

Department of Environmental Sculpture → Department of Sculpture

Department of Art Design: Public Environment Design Major → Industrial Design Major

Department of Music: Violin Major → Strings Major