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▣ Enrollment Requirement and Time Limitation

■ Enrollment Requirement

  ● Students must complete 4 years (8 semesters) to obtain a bachelor's degree, except for the following programs:
    - Bachelor of Architecture: 5 years (10 semesters)
    - Doctor of Dental Surgery / Medical Doctor: 6 years (2+4 years) including pre-med/dentistry study periods (2 years)
    - Doctor of Pharmacy: 6 years for students starting from 1st year, 4 years for students transferring to 3rd year

■ Time Limitation for Completing Bachelors Degree Requirements

  ● All students must meet the requirements for completing the bachelor's degree program within 12 semesters. However, the following programs are an exception.
    - Bachelor of Architecture: 15 semesters
    - Doctor of Dental Surgery / Medical Doctor: 9 years (3+6 years) including pre-med/Dentistry program (3 years)
    - Doctor of Pharmacy: 6 years for students starting from 1st year, 4 years for students transferring to 3rd year
  ● Student who fail to fulfill the degree requirements within the above specified time limitation will be dismissed at the end of the final semester.
  ● Transfer students cannot prolong their study more than 1.5 times the number of semesters required to study at our university. Therefore, students transferring to the 3rd-year of a four-year bachelor's degree program must fulfill the degree requirements within three years(6 semesters), and those transferring to the 2nd-year within 9 semesters.

■ Early Graduation

  ● Students with a 3.75 or higher cumulative GPA may graduate by shortening one or two semesters when they complete all the graduation requirements in six or seven semesters.
  ● Students who are in the Integrated-Undergraduate-and-Graduate Program with 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA can receive a bachelor's degree after the seventh semester when they complete graduation requirements.
  ● Restrictions on Early Graduation
    - Students with an academic warning cannot apply for early graduation.
    - Transferred students are not allowed to apply for early graduation.
    - Students who are in the programs with 5 or more years of enrollment requirements, i.e., B.Arch., M.D., D.D.S., D.Phm. are not allowed to apply for early graduation.