4th BK21 Program Scholarship
Category | Scholarship Title | Tuition Reduction | Selection Criteria | Number of Recipients | Scholarship Duration |
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Master’s Degree | Energy Excellent A | 1,000,000won per month | Scholarship awards depend on evaluations every semester among full- time students | 50% of enrolled students | four semesters |
Energy Research B | 650,000won per month | 50% of enrolled students | |||
Doctorate Degree | Energy BK S | 1,700,000won per month | 5% of enrolled students | Maximum eight semesters | |
Energy BK A | 1,600,000won per month | 45% of enrolled students | |||
Energy Ajou B | 1,100,000won per month | 50% of enrolled students |

BK21 Scholarship is applied to incoming and current students.
Scholarship for public officials or that from the academy, research, and industry is subject to the University’s scholarship regulation.
Monthly stipend for international students is paid in the same manner as above, and tuition reduction is subject to the University’s scholarship regulation.
Non-participants in the BK21 program are eligible for the basic graduate school scholarship system.
The scholarship level is adjusted after evaluations every semester(Energy Excellence Scholarship A for master’s students in their first semester).
Applicable to full-time students who enroll and complete a four-semester master's degree program, eight-semester doctoral degree program, and twelve-semester Master & Ph.D. integrated program.
(According to Article 52, Paragraph 2 of the Graduate School's Academic Management Regulations, students can receive scholarships up to four semesters for the master's program, six semesters for the doctoral program, and eight semesters for the integrated program. Yet, during the BK21 program period, as an exception, scholarships are available for up to four semesters for master's, eight semesters for doctoral, and twelve semesters for the integrated).
All scholarship payment criteria follow the BK21 program management regulations, and the program budget is changed if the program budget is reduced.
Ph.D. students who finished the coursework (usually from the 5th semester of Ph.D. course) receive 1,300,000 won/month based on the BK21 program management regulations.
General Scholarship (※for non-participants in 4th BK 21 Program)
Category | Scholarship Title | Tuition Reduction | Selection Criteria | Selection member | Scholarship Duration | TA | GPA Requirement for Scholarship Renewal |
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Master’s Degree | Master’s Research | tuition fee 40% (An additional 60% reduction is possible with the support of professor research expenses) | Full-time freshmen students recommended by the Head of the Department | All recommended students | Maximum four semesters | x | GPA 3.5 and over |
Doctorate Degree | Doctorate Research | tuition fee 80% | Maximum six semesters | Eight hours per week |
