Graduate

The scholarship provides financial support for tuition fees at Sungkyunkwan University and a stipend. The scholarship awardees will be provided with a monthly stipend 650,000 Korean won for Master and Ph.D. programs throughout their study (including health insurance fee, starting from Sep, 2004). Additional stipend might be provided depending on the situation and duration. Stipend will be given to the individual students monthly from the administration office. Therefore, it is required to make two bank accounts for office and personal use. Stipend will be transferred to the personal account. No registration fee is charged.

Undergraduate

Fees and Expenses

All students must pay the tuition fees and all other charges to the University. Various and generous scholarship programs are offered for medical students. Students who achieved a score in the top 1 percentile or above in the National Scholastic Aptitude Test obtain a scholarship for the full 6 years of medical school.
The scholarship comes from a special fund generously donated by the Samsung Business Group. In fact, all current medical students have met the criteria and have received the scholarship in full.

Financial information and Financial Assistance(scholarships)

Sungkyunkwan University provides scholarship funds to the medical college for the development of excellent medical scholars. Since Sungkyunkwan Medical College was first founded in 1997, the “Twae-Gae” scholarship has been awarded to students who have achieved the highest overall score in the entrance evaluation, while the Samsung Scholarship was awarded to students whose college entrance exam scores were within the one percentile. In 1999, as shown in table 2-2, scholarships of 350 million won were awarded in the first semester and 330 million won in the second semester. Respectively, 99.1% and 96.6% of the medical students were awarded the scholarship and the average award per student was 3 million won. The total scholarship award came out to be 671,082,600 won.

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Scholarships Qualifications for the award Amount
Twae-Gae Scholarship Students with the highest overall score on the admission evaluation Full tuition fee
Samsung Scholarship1. 1.Students who scored within 1% on the college entrance exam
2. Students who scored within 2% on the college entrance exam and acquired on excellent score on the admission evaluation
If qualified students maintain academic excellence, scholarships are continuously awarded for up to 12 semesters.
Full tuition fee

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  No of Enrolled Students No of Awarded Students Total Amount Conferred (won) Rate of Award (%)
1997   1st sm 41 41 129,080,300 100.0
  2nd sm 41 41 116,780,300 100.0
1998 1st sm 79 79 233,867,400 100.0
  2nd sm 78 77 216,470,800 98.7
1999 1st sm 117 116 343,969,700 99.1
  2nd sm 117 113 327,112,900 96.9
Total   473 467 1,367,281,400 98.7