Classes can be held in question and answer sessions or discussions because one professor teaches about ten students. The students’ hall has well-established welfare facilities, including swimming pool and fitness center, to allow students to recover from fatigue. Besides humanities and social sciences, programs like music and physical education are also included as compulsory curriculum. This is to foster creative talents in science fields to lead the future of the Republic of Korea. The goal is to catch up with Caltech in the US.

    Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) is successfully going down the path of becoming a top-class university of science and technology in Korea. It has only been twenty years since its establishment, but it recorded tenth in the world in terms of the number of thesis being cited per professor in the 2010 World University Rankings announced by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), which is a university evaluation agency in Britain.