Student Life
Credit Recognition
Continuation of Degree Program
- For Ph.D. program freshmen who graduated from Master’s degree program of Dongguk University
- Out of extra credits achieved other than minimum number of credits required for completion (24 credits) during Master’s program of Dongguk University, up to 3 credits can be recognized as Ph.D. credits (same affiliation only)
- For Ph.D. program freshmen who graduated from Master’s degree program of Dongguk University
Approval of Early Acquisition of Graduate School Credits
- For Master’s program freshmen and MA & Ph.D. Integrated program freshmen who graduated from undergraduate program of Dongguk University
- Out of extra credits achieved other than minimum number of credits required for graduation during undergraduate program of Dongguk University, up to 9 credits can be recognized as Master’s (MA-Ph.D. Integrated) credits
- Benefit : Early completion of Master’s program is possible if more than 6 credits are approved
※ Early completion is possible for Undergraduate-Master’s Integrated program students regardless of credit approval - Application form is not required. General Graduate Team will process credit approval automatically
Credit Approval for Transfer Students
- For transfer students only
- For transfer students of Dongguk Graduate School, credits can be approved if the course of achieved credit is same affiliation or same curriculum as transferred department
- ① 2nd semester Transfer: 6 credits for Master’s, 9 credits for Ph.D.
- ② 3rd semester Transfer: 12 credits for Master’s, 18 credits for Ph.D.
- Required documents: Letter of credit approval request of previous university (sign of academic adviser and dean of department), Transcript of previous university
- Submission : related college administration office
Credit Approval of domestic/overseas General Graduate School
- Master‘s program freshmen, if applicable
- Out of Master’s course credits achieved from domestic/overseas general graduate school before admission to Dongguk Graduate School, maximum of 6 credits can be approved as credit. (only for credits achieved from the same or similar courses to the major program)
- Benefit : Early completion of Master’s program if more than 6 credits are approved
- Required documents: Letter of Master’s program credit approval request (sign of academic adviser and dean of department), Master’s program transcript of previous university
- Submission : related college administration office