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Scholarship Program

CAYSS

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1. Outline of CAYSS
The Chung-Ang University Young Scientist Scholarship (CAYSS) Program is a newly
launched graduate program in the Graduate School of Chung-Ang University.
CAYSS, opened in Fall 2010, aims to pick out and recruit overseas students from
prominent institutions and universities all over the world, that are majoring in
Engineering and Science The students must be highly recommended by one of the
Chung-Ang University's faculty members. The recipients of this scholarship will
enjoy entrance fee and full tuition fee waivers for four semesters.
2. CAYSS Benefits
Four terms tuition fee waivers (including enrollment fee) and additional stipend from
their professors (minimum 500,000KRW per month).
3. Conditions for CAYSS recipients
1. Admissions Requirement: International students majoring in natural Science,
Engineering, Pharmacy, and Medicine, who obtained the consent and
recommendation from one of the Chung-Ang University full time faculty
members. Other conditions are the same with the admission guide of other
international students.
2. Conditions of Benefit: Students have to maintain GPAs 3.5 or above. Students
must get the approval signature of their academic advisor, every single
semester, to receive tuition fee waiver scholarship and monthly stipend in their

following semester.

3. Duration: Minimum of four semesters for Master's or Doctoral courses; eight

semesters for Master and Ph.D. joint program.
4. Research Registration: Please note that there is partial tuition fee payment,
10% of full tuition fees, for at least two semesters when doctoral course
students, if the student cannot graduate, even though the student has finished
his or her course work. This situation only applies to the doctoral degree
seeking students, not to the Master's degree students and cannot be waived
even though you are CAYSS recipients. Regardless of course, if a student
requests a certificate of enrolment after finishing course work, the student
must go through the research registration process and pay the respective fees.
5. Requirements for Graduation
6. Master: An article must be submitted to JCR by him/herself or collaboration
with the student's academic advisor before the graduation, and must be
published within 1year of graduation(including confirmation of
publication).This must be a separate article from a presentation of a thesis for
graduation.
7. Doctor : An article must be published to JCR by him/herself as a first or a
corresponding author(including confirmation of publication). This must be a
separate article from a presentation of a thesis for graduation.
8. Masters & Ph.D. joint program: An article must be published to JCR by
him/herself as a first or a corresponding author(including confirmation of
publication). This must be a separate article from a presentation of a thesis for
graduation. Please refer to below benefits of Master & Ph.D. joint program ;
1. Exemption from the Master's Degree Thesis Submitting Qualification
Proficiency Test (Language & Major)
2. Exemption from the Master's degree thesis
3. Scholarship upon entering the doctoral degree program (full
scholarship available only for the 1st semester)
4. After completing more than 4 semesters in the program with more than
30 credits, it is recognized as the Master degree program
4. Eligibility
This scholarship is applied to a portion of natural Science, Medicine, Engineering and
Pharmacy majoring students. Admission to the graduate school program is open to all
qualified international applicants who hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited

undergraduate institution(to be elligable for Master's program) or who hold a

bachelor's degree and Master's degree from an accredited undergraduate and graduate
institution(to be elligable for Doctoral program).
1. International Applicants
1) Foreign national whose parents must have foreign citizenship
2) Irrespective of nationality, applicant has completed or is scheduled to
complete all education courses, equivalent to primary, secondary and
university education in a foreign country for more than 16 years.
2. Those who obtained consent and recommendation from their prospective
academic advisor, who is currently full time faculty member of Chung-Ang
University
5. How to Apply
Step1:
Find faculty members in the field of your interest as candidates for your supervisor.
Applications will not be accepted without the consent of at least one faculty member
as a prospective supervisor. The prospective supervisors should be a professor,
associate professor, assistant professor or full time lecturer of the Graduate School at
Chung-Ang University.
Step2:
Contact the faculty members directly via email to obtain consent of acceptance. To
contact the faculty members, it is strongly advisable to:
1. gather information about the faculty members and their field of research in
advance by looking at their publications, research papers, and personal
websites.
2. include "CAYSS" in the subject line of the email.
3. provide as much of your academic background and application information as
possible.
4. provide the names of other faculty members if contacting more than one at the
same time.
5. provide the name of your current or latest supervisor as a reference.
Step3:
Prepare the required documents for application if the professor you have contacted is
willing to recommend you as a CAYSS applicant. The professor must send us notice
on CAYSS acceptance directly to gsadmin@cau.ac.kr All the documents are the same
with general admission guide(click to the admission guide) except the fact you need
to enclose pledge of CAYSS recipients(download form) and do NOT need to enclose
the statement of financial resources. Apply on-line. If it is not the general application

period, please use the CAYSS application form provided on top of this page.
Exclusive Waivers of application fee of $100 are applied to the CAYSS applicants.

Step4:
Send the application documents to the Office of International Affairs(OIA), ChungAng University after applying on-line during general application periods. All the
application documents, including application form, should be enclosed together, sent
via airmail, and received by the OIA of Chung-Ang University by the same deadline
as general admissions.
Mailing address : the Office of International Affairs of Chung-Ang University
Room 104 Building no. 201 Heukseok-Ro 84, Dongjak-Gu, Seoul 156-756, Korea
Step5:
The Committee for CAYSS will carry out preliminary selection based on scholastic
aptitude according to documents submitted and contact the applicants for further
evaluation in May or in November depending on intended entrance term.
Starting Semester

Application Deadline(On
Interview
Line)

Fall Semester(From Sep to mid

Mid April
Dec)
Spring Semester(From March to
Mid October
mid June)

Notification

Mid May

Beginning of June

Mid
November

Beginning of
December

o Introduction to the CAU Natural Science, Engineering and Pharmacy program

1. College of ICT Engineering - click to the website
2. College of Engineering - click to the website
3. College of Natural Sciences - click to the website
4. College of Biotechnology and Natural Resources - click to the website
5. College of Pharmacy - click to the website
6. Red Cross College of Nursing - click to the website
7. College of Medicine - click to the website