Konkuk University Admission Guide

Konkuk's signature fields: veterinary medicine and real estate

Konkuk University is a private research university whose reputation rests on two unusual anchors rather than a general profile.

The first is veterinary medicine. Konkuk's College of Veterinary Medicine began as a department within the College of Animal Husbandry in 1968 and moved to a six-year program structure in 1998; the university states it was the first veterinary college in Korea to receive first-cycle five-year accreditation from the Korea Veterinary Education Accreditation Agency. The second is real-estate studies — Konkuk established a Graduate School of Real Estate Studies in 2000, a rare dedicated school in Korean higher education. Bioscience, engineering, business and design fill out the rest.

• College of Veterinary Medicine — six-year program structure since 1998
• Graduate School of Real Estate Studies — established 2000
• Bioscience, engineering, business and design across both campuses

One university, two campuses: Seoul and GLOCAL Chungju

Konkuk operates as a single university across two separate campuses in two cities. The Seoul campus sits at Neungdong-ro in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul, and hosts most colleges including veterinary medicine and the main graduate schools. The GLOCAL Campus is at Chungwon-daero in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, with its own set of departments.

This matters more than it first appears. Which campus offers your intended major determines the admission unit you apply to, and the departments, available courses and costs are not identical between them. Confirm the campus for your major from the official campus and admission pages before you choose an admission unit — applying to the wrong campus is not a fixable error late in the cycle.

Applying through the Center for International Student Services

International applicants are handled by Konkuk's Center for International Student Services (CISS), which publishes the admission guidelines and runs the international admission track separately from the domestic Korean route.

One practical point: Konkuk's undergraduate international admission runs in more than one round per intake — its 2026 fall cycle, for example, was published as a second-round guideline. The guidelines themselves are issued as downloadable documents in Korean, English and Chinese, and CISS instructs applicants to read the guideline before completing the online application. Note also that older Konkuk admission pages remain reachable on a legacy web address; work only from the current CISS guidelines.

If you are targeting veterinary medicine

Competitive professional programs are not simply another admission unit. Veterinary medicine at Konkuk is a six-year structure with its own academic requirements, and admission to it can be considerably more restricted for international applicants than to general departments — some Korean universities do not open professional programs to the international track at all in a given cycle.

Do not assume availability from the university's reputation in the field. Check the current admission guideline for whether veterinary medicine appears in the international unit list for your intake, and confirm any subject prerequisites with the college itself.

Language evidence, scholarships and GKS

Konkuk teaches most degrees in Korean while offering a substantial number of English-taught courses each semester. Korean-taught study asks for Korean-proficiency evidence such as a TOPIK level, and international students are generally expected to reach a required level to graduate, not only to enter; English-taught study asks for an English test score unless you are exempt. Konkuk sets the accepted tests and levels per program.

Konkuk offers its own scholarships and tuition reductions for international students, and — like other Korean universities — features in the Global Korea Scholarship (GKS), the government scholarship administered by NIIED. Note that GKS is the current name of the government programme; pages still labelled with the older KGSP name are out of date.

Fees, scholarship terms, language levels and each round's deadline are set by the university and change every cycle. Verify them on the official CISS pages and the government scholarship site, and treat any guaranteed-admission or guaranteed-scholarship promise from an agent as a red flag — no place or award can be guaranteed.