Sejong University Admission Guide

Sejong's specialist schools in eastern Seoul

Sejong University is a private research university in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul. What separates it from the many general private universities in the capital is a pair of unusually specific academic clusters that it lists on its own undergraduate schools page.

The first is the College of Hospitality & Tourism, which houses the School of Hotel, Tourism, & Food Service Management — including hotel and tourism management and food service management. The second is the School of Aerospace System Engineering within the College of Engineering, which offers aerospace engineering. If either field is your target, that concentration — rather than a general Seoul location — is the reason to look at Sejong.

• College of Hospitality & Tourism — School of Hotel, Tourism, & Food Service Management
• School of Aerospace System Engineering, within the College of Engineering
• A full range of humanities, science, business and social-science schools alongside them

The One-Stop Service Center route

Sejong handles international applicants through a dedicated One-Stop Service Center rather than the domestic Korean admission route. Its undergraduate and graduate international admission pages are hosted separately from the main university site, and each publishes a downloadable application guide for the relevant intake.

The university's own instruction is to read that guide before you start the online form: it sets out the full procedure and application method for the cycle. Admission also runs in rounds rather than as a single deadline, so the round you target changes the dates that apply to you. Take the eligibility rules, unit list and schedule from the current guide file itself — not from summaries elsewhere.

Country-specific document standards

A feature worth knowing before you assemble your file: alongside the general application guide, Sejong publishes separate standardised admission document guidelines for applicants from particular countries, including China, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.

If your country appears in that list, the standard the university applies to your transcripts, graduation certificates and verification of them may differ from the general checklist — which is exactly the sort of detail that delays or invalidates an otherwise complete application. Check whether a country-specific document guideline exists for you on the official admission page, and follow it in preference to any generic advice.

Graduate study and the language pathway

Sejong's graduate schools admit international students through a separate graduate international admission channel with its own guide and schedule. Requirements are set per department, and a research-based program may expect additional academic material.

Sejong also runs a Korean-language program that some applicants use before degree study. Whether a language certificate is required for your specific degree, and at what level, is set by the department — confirm it on the official graduate admission pages rather than assuming a single university-wide rule.

Language rules, tuition and scholarships — where the numbers live

Most Sejong degree programs are taught in Korean, with a growing set of English-taught courses and tracks. Korean-taught programs ask for Korean-proficiency evidence such as a TOPIK level; English-taught study asks for an English test score unless you qualify for an exemption. Sejong sets which tests it accepts and at what level, per program.

As a private university, Sejong sets its own tuition, and it offers scholarships and tuition reductions for international students that are commonly linked to academic performance or language level.

Every one of these — the accepted tests, the required levels, tuition, scholarship terms and each round's deadline — is set by the university and changes between intakes. Treat any specific figure quoted by a third party as unofficial, verify it on Sejong's official admission pages before you rely on it, and remember that no one can guarantee you a place or an award. Treat an agent's guaranteed-admission promise as a reason to walk away.