🇰🇷 413 institutions · 2,025,103 students

Korea prices a degree by what you study.

Every Korean university discloses its tuition broken down by field, the share of its graduates in work, and how many people applied per place. Cost, outcomes and competition — published for all of them, by law.

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National universities

₩3.87m

median tuition a year. The state sector is roughly half the price of the private one.

Private universities

₩6.97m

median a year — and where four out of five students actually study.

Competition

5.6:1

applicants per place at the median campus institution. The most contested reaches 37:1.

Not published

수능

entrance scores are not disclosed per university. We show how contested a place is, not the marks you need.

Why there is no “score you need” here

Korea runs one of the most measured admissions systems anywhere, and almost none of the measuring is public per institution. 수능 results are released to students, not as a per-university distribution, and no open licence covers them. So the honest selectivity signal is 신입생 경쟁률 — applicants per place — which tells you how contested a university is without pretending to tell you whether you would get in. Sites that quote a required score for a Korean university are estimating from private data.

Hardest places to get

Most applicants per place, among institutions with 1,000 or more students.

Institution	Applicants / place	Tuition	In work
Seoul Institute of the ArtsGyeonggi · Private	37.4:1	₩8,449,300	66.5%
Kyonggi UniversitySeoul · Private	25.5:1	₩7,548,800	67.1%
Korea National University of ArtsSeoul · Special-act national	24.8:1	₩4,806,500	62.6%
Chung-Ang UniversitySeoul · Private	24.3:1	₩8,363,800	67.6%
Gachon UniversityGyeonggi · Private	22.9:1	₩8,812,600	66.5%
Sungkyunkwan UniversitySeoul · Private	22.4:1	₩8,905,200	71.3%
Hanyang UniversitySeoul · Private	22:1	₩9,016,300	68.9%
Konkuk UniversitySeoul · Private	21.7:1	₩8,748,300	66.8%

Every institution, by region

All 413 universities and junior colleges that report students to 대학알리미. Campus entries reporting no students at all — satellite sites rather than places you apply to — are left out.

Busan (26)

Daegu (14)

Daejeon (18)

Gangwon (23)

Gwangju (18)

Gyeonggi (73)

Incheon (11)

Jeju (5)

North Chungcheong (19)

North Gyeongsang (38)

North Jeolla (21)

Sejong (4)

Seoul (68)

South Chungcheong (27)

South Gyeongsang (22)

South Jeolla (21)

Ulsan (5)

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Source: 대학알리미 (Higher Education in Korea), 한국대학교육협의회 대학정보공시센터 / Ministry of Education, 2026 disclosure reporting 2025 figures. Public data under 공공누리 제1유형 (attribution), commercial reuse permitted. English institution names from Wikidata (CC0).