KAIST
한국과학기술원 | |
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| Type | National |
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| Established | 1971 |
| Affiliations | AEARU, AOTULE, APRU, ASPIRE League. |
| Budget | ₩1 trillion (US$878 million) (FY2021) |
| President | Choongsik Bae (배충식) |
| Faculty | 704 (2024) |
Administrative staff | 973 (2024) |
| Students | 12,348 (2024) |
| Undergraduates | 4,009 |
| Postgraduates | 3,767 |
| 2,896 | |
Other students | 1,676 Joint MS-PhD |
| Location | , , |
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| Website | kaist |
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| Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | |
| Hangul | 한국과학기술원 |
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| Hanja | 韓國科學技術院 |
| RR | Hanguk gwahak gisurwon |
| MR | Han'guk kwahak kisurwŏn |
| KAIST | |
| Hangul | 카이스트 |
| RR | Kaiseuteu |
| MR | K'aisŭt'ŭ |
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.