Graduation Qualification System

Eligibility

Students must fulfill the criteria below to be qualified to graduate (If not, a student is deemed to have completed their course)

* Only students of certain disciplines which evaluate Major courses must fulfill the criteria.

Standard and Criteria

Practical English

• Students who have completed 4 credits of Practical English
• Students of, or those who minored or double majored in, English Literature or English Language
• Students who have acquired over 700 points in the Practical English Exam for entering students
• Students who have acquire over 700 in TOEIC (mock-exam included) and similar scores in other official English tests recognized by the President.
• Students who have studied over 120 hours in KNU English courses run by native speakers
• Students who have acquired 3 credits or more by participating in language courses, global internships, or exchange programs from English speaking countries.

* English exams and TOEIC mock exam scores are recognized provided that they areless than 2 years old.

Interviews with an Academic Advisor

• Students who fulfill the criteria set out in the Rules for Managing Student Advisor Interviews

Major

• Depending on each college and department, a student’s major courses can be evaluated in their last semester before graduation based onone among the student’s thesis, qualification exam, experiment report, orexperiment presentation.

Software

• Students who have registered for more than 3 credits from software-related subjects among the elective courses (SW and Basic Problem Solving Skills, Introduction to Cultural Technology, SW Cognitive Technique, Social Network, Basic Web Programming, Python Programming, Basic C/C++, Intensive C/C++, SOHO Business Programming, SW Contents Production)
• Students who have acquire more than 3 credits by registering for alternative courses insoftware designated by each department
• Students who have participated in more than 45 hours of learning courses (short-term lectures) provided bythe KNU information system (including the learning center)
• Students who have acquired a data processing related license
• Students who have completed acomputer related educational course recognized by the President (you must submit your certificate)

Graduation Qualification

Students must fill in and submit Graduation Qualification form

Exemption

• Transferstudents, foreign students, and disabled students recognized by the President are exempt from the mandatory Practical English and Software courses as well as interviews with academic advisors.
  (Disabled students recognized by the President indicate those who are registered to the Disabled Students Support Center)

OfficialEnglish Test Conversion Table

Index	TOEIC	TOEIC Speaking	TOEFL			TEPS	TEPS Speaking	OPIc
			PBT	IBT	CBT
Score	700	120	529	71	197	600~605	50	IM1

Countries where English is spoken

Ghana	Guyana	Gambia	Guernsey
Guam	Grenada	Namibia	Nigeria
South Africa	Norfolk Islands	New Zealand	Dominica
Liberia	Lesotho	Rwanda	Marshall Islands
Malawi	Malta	Isle of Man	Mauritius
Montserrat	United States of America	U.S. Virgin Islands	Micronesia
Vanuatu	Barbados	Bahama	Bermuda
Belize	Botswana	Northern Mariana Islands	Seychelles
Saint Lucia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Helena
Solomon Islands	Sri Lanka	Swaziland	Sierra Leone
Singapore	American Samoa	Ireland	Antigua and Barbuda
Anguilla	United Kingdom	British Virgin Islands	Australia
Uganda	India	Jamaica	Zambia
Jersey	Gibraltar	Zimbabwe	Cameroon
Canada	Kenya	Cayman Islands	Cook Islands
Christmas Island	Kiribati	Turks and Caicos Islands	Trinidad and Tobago
Pakistan	Papua New Guinea	Palau	Falkland Islands
Puerto Rico	Fiji	Philippines	Pitcairn Islands
Hong Kong