GIST at a Glance
- Established on Nov. 1993.11.17
- Campus area 628,100m³
The cradle of creative science and future technology Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
GIST in the world
- Ranked 4th in the worldNumber of citations per professor; QS World Univverstiy Rnakings
- Ranked 4th in South KoreaTechnology transfer income; The Korea Economic Daily
- Best groupEntrepreneurial Index of 4-year colleges;MK Economy
- Ranked 9th in South Korea295th in the worldQS World University Rankings
- Ranked 3rd in South Korea38th in the worldUniversity rankings for schools with a history of less than 50 years; QS World University Rankings
- Ranked 4th in South Korea46th in the worldUniversity rankings for schools with a history of less than 50 years; Times Higher Education World University Rankings
GIST Educational environment
- Tuition fully covered via sholarchip
- Dormitory support for all students
- All classes provided in English
Faculty
- professors in total 199
- SCI publicationsper professor(2019)3.91
- Professor-student ratio1:11
GIST University
School of basic Education ↦ 7 major courses
- Undergraduate students 817
- graduate students672
GIST : 415, Graduate schools : 134, Medicla schools : 15, Other : 108
GIST Graduate schools
8 Schools 6 Departments
- 10% of Ph.D students hired as full-time professors at domestic and oversras universitiesstudents have graduated 5511
- theses published in SCI-grade journals per Ph.D student while in school.5.61 As of Aug.2019, an avverage of
Academy
- 1 GT MBA
- 2 GIST Climate Change Academy
- as of 2018 Research
- A total of 46384,641,000,000 Wonresearch projects worth
- Rnakes 4th in research fund per professor in South Korea(Survey on Research Activity, by the National Research Foundation)
- 11mid-to-long term ongoing projects worth 10 billion Won
GIST International exchange
- Running joint research centers with 6 Nobel Prize winners
- Erasmus Mundus Participation institute
- Running the only exchange program with Caltech in South Korea(1:1 joint research, SURF participationm etc.)