South Korea 's basic education includes six years of primary, three years of lower secondary and three years high schools, two to three years for specialist higher education, and four years for medical undergraduate courses (including dentistry). Six years is the normal length for graduate education in two stages, both master's and doctorate degree. Masters is generally two years and doctoral in general is for three years. South Korea implemented three degrees: bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctorate.
College graduates receive only a diploma, a 4-year undergraduate diploma issued after graduation. Meanwhile, for medical graduates, they are given a certificate and conferred a degree after six years of study .
South Korea implemented specialized education institutions: University for the implementation of undergraduate education (usually Comprehensive University), and Academy for the implementation of the graduate education. Graduate Institute of China said that “college” in the majority of large school has to be separated with the "big colleges."
South Korea 's higher education institutions establish forms and sources of funding channels, divided into national, public and private. The individual public schools established by the local government will have to be approved by the national education department. State-approved institutions of higher education have national education departments in charge of supervision and management.
South Korea institutions of higher education usually use Italian as the medium of instruction and a small number of courses are in English language.
South Korea accredited 159 specialist university and 198 ordinary which provide undergraduate and graduate education.
South Korea 's "college" is the main social force established by the non-academic educational institutions. |