2025 Fall Semester Course Add/Drop & Withdrawal period: 
Week 9-16 courses

1. Course Add/Drop period 

A. Course Add/ Drop period :

[9-16]  9:30 on Monday, October 27, 2025 ~ before 23:59 on Monday, November 3, 2025

B. How to : Course Registration System (https://sugang.kaist.ac.kr) ⇒ Add new classes or drop/change classes at ‘Course Registration’ or ‘Course Registration(Exceptions)’Menu.

1) ‘Course Registration’ menu: Select Course → Add Courses with ‘Add’ button or Drop the courses with ‘Delete’ button

2) ‘Course Registration(Exceptions)’ menu: Select Course → Select Application Type & Reason for Application → Click Request

※If the approval of the course professor is required, such as courses exceeding enrollment limit, use the Course Registration(Exception) menu.

※‘Course registration(exception) menu’ will be closed at October 30 (9-16) which is two days before the course Add/Drop period ends. Any applications that remain unapproved until two days before the end of the course Add/Drop period will be automatically canceled. Students must take necessary measures before the deadline.

※ Once ‘Course registration(exception)’ menu is closed, students who wish to make changes to their course registration must submit a course Add/Drop application in paper form (No.12_Graduate (Link)) including the course professor’s signature to the KCB Academic & Student Affairs Team (through this email address) within the course Add/Drop period.

C. Opening hours of course registration system

[Graduate] 09:30 ~ 23:59 , Course Add/Drop available all time during the period

D. Matters to be attended

1) Students must apply for courses during the given period only.

2) Course Registration System requires a portal access (with PORTAL ID)

(For issues related to the account: Portal → My Page (top right icon) → My Info Settings → Personal Information Settings)

3) [Master’s]Total of 9 credits of special courses are allowed to be taken in master’s program.

4) Individual research credits can be recognized up to 12 credits per semester as determined by the student's advisor, and up to a total of 15 credits.

※ In the case of individual research in the undergraduate program,1 credit is allocated to each individual research. If you wish to apply for two or more individual research in the same semester, you can apply for one at the course registration menu, and the others at the course registration (exception) menu with the approval of the professor in charge.

※ If it is not the same semester, it is allowed to apply for individual research again from the same professor.

5) After the course registration and add/drop period, one will get academic warning if the final credits registered per semester is below the minimum credit specified for each program. Students with only AU or no course registered will be expelled from school.(→School regulation Article 34, 67, 86, Guidelines on Curriculum Management Article 15, Guidelines on Enrollment and Course Registration Procedures Article 4.)

※ [Graduate] Master's/doctoral students must apply for at 9~12 credits(Full-time),1~9 credits(Part-time) per semester, including research credits. However, student can apply for up to 18 credits(Full-time), 12 credits(Part-time) when recommended by the advisor and approved by the department head. 

2. Course Withdrawal period 

A. Course Withdrawal period :

[9-16] Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 12:30 p.m. ~ Friday, November 7, 2025 at 23:59 p.m.

※ During the course withdrawal period, only dropping courses is permitted. Withdrawing from courses after this period is not allowed.

B. How to : Course Registration System (https://sugang.kaist.ac.kr) ⇒ 'Course Registration' Click ⇒ drop classes at ‘Course Registration’ 

: Click Delete to withdraw courses

C. Matters to be attended 

1) The grade of a withdrawn course is not included in students' grade point average; students are given a "W" (withdrawal) on their transcripts.

(→Should students retake the “W” given courses, "W" grades on their transcripts will be deleted.)

2) Total number of credits for the remaining courses after the course add/drop period. (→Reference : School regulation article 67, Guidelines on Curriculum Management article 15, Guidelines on Enrollment and Course Registration Procedures article 4)

① Every full-time graduate student has to take minimum of 9 credits each semester(Part time 1 credit).

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