103 Masters Degree Programs in South Korea

The Graduate School of Korea Culture and Industry is a special-purpose graduate school dedicated to fostering professional human resources in convergence content and cultural content areas that are required for a culturally knowledge-based society of the 21st century. Our graduate school offers master's degree and doctoral degree programs in convergence content. The master's degree program provides three majors to choose from, including Storytelling, Cultural Space, and Culture and Arts Management while the doctoral degree program specializes in a single major of Convergence Content. To foster diversified culture and industry professionals, our master's program is divided into two streams: Dissertation Degree Course and Practical Project Degree Course. Our degree programs feature a variety of education courses, including interdisciplinary convergence education, creative seminars, 1:1 tailor-made tutorials, cultural field trips at home and abroad, and industry-academy practices with aims to foster convergence professionals equipped with the ability to analyze, plan, and operate the trends of the cultural industry.

Youngsan Graduate School of Theology provides education for the purpose of cultivating holistic Christian leaders who have the skills and personality to contribute to the evangelization of Korea and the world by teaching and polishing Pentecostal faith and theology on the basis of the Bible. Our graduate school not only strives to seek truth for national evangelization and world evangelization, but furthermore, we share a sense of co-worker with each other and focus on piety training, ministry, and missionary training. Operating.

This Graduate School of Church Music is, under Article 108 of the Education Law and upon the creed of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, aiming at yielding competitive leaders of church music who will fulfill their duties faithfully, encouraging the students to develop their creative and unique capability as well as general knowledge of music, and leading them to be capable musical ministers and leaders who will contribute to the development of church music in Korean Church and society.

The department of Multicultural Education is to educate students under the multidisciplinary approach through diverse practices and training. The students review diverse issues and phenomena of multicultural societies in Korea and the global world. They take main courses to become a professional in a multicultural society and main subjects in the multicultural education field to become a researcher, educator, and practitioner. Ultimately, they grow themselves as global citizens who can build up this global multicultural society which is living together all people coexisting win-win situations.

INHA Graduate School was founded in 1958 after the establishment of Inha University in 1954 with the help of Korean immigrants in Hawaii and Dr. Syng-Man Rhee, the first president of Republic of Korea, to lead the industrial development of the country right after the Korean war. Main programs: Engineering, Natural Science: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry Electrical and Computer Engineering: Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, Future Vehicle Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Energy Resource Engineering: Energy Resource Engineering Interdisciplinary Biosystem: Biopharmaceuticals (Engineering), Bioprocess Engineering(Engineering), Biological Science (Natural Science) Social Science: Sustainability Management

The Department of Business Administration focuses on developing students into competitive professionals for globalized companies in Korea and overseas. Our goal is to eventually foster professional managers who implement management principles required for a new management environment. We want our management professionals to be equipped with capabilities to apply what they have learned once they are working in the field. They will efficiently and effectively exercise management capabilities obtained through practical training in management information. Therefore, the curriculum is systematically inclusive of all key areas of business administration such as Production; Marketing; Finance; Human Resources; Accounting; Management Strategies; and Management Information Systems (MIS).

The Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation aims to foster competent interpreters and translators who satisfy the domestic and overseas demands for interpretation and translation. The demands for professional interpreters and translators in this region are expected to significantly increase due to the relocation of The US Armed Forces bases in Korea to Pyeongtaek; the increased use of Pyeongtaek Port; the relocation of Samsung Electronics; the relocation of LG Electronics; the development of a new town; and the establishment of the Pyeongtaek Free Trade Zone. The Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation is comprised of the Department of Korean-English Interpretation and Translation and the Department of Korean Language Education.

The Graduate School of Industrial Technology is performing the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy-supported industrial-academic cooperation projects in e-business. On top of this, we have been designated to carry out special projects for which the Ministry of Information and Communication provides equipment to our information technology-related departments. Our state-of-the-art research and experiment equipment and one of the best learning environments in Korea are also capitalized onto producing first-class professionals equipped not only with creative research ability but also with leadership by conducting joint research with experts from businesses, outside research institutes, and the government, as well as by bringing those experts up-to-date on recent theories and applications required by knowledge-based industries.

The Graduate School of Knowledge-Based Technology and Energy is the only one of its kind in Korea, established to produce professionals in such state-of-the-art technology areas as information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and environmental technology, as well as in energy technology and policy-making. In particular, in an attempt to create new added value by taking the lead in technological competitiveness in this knowledge-driven era, our Graduate School produces experts in cross-discipline technology fields including system engineering, information and communication, nano-materials, and life chemistry, and digitalized business administration. If also educates future experts in the energy industry, dealing with alternative energies, “new” renewable energies, energy demand and supply issues home and abroad, plans for future energy demand, and appropriate responses to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Our department was established in 2002 based on the monumental donation of Mun-Sul Jeong, whose mission is to foster creative convergence talents in the fields of biotechnology and brain engineering who will lead the future of Korea. Since its establishment, it has grown remarkably until now, and now it has emerged as a world-class department leading bio-convergence engineering. Our department can be said to be the most brilliantly embodied of KAIST's spirit of 'creativity and 'challenge'. From March 1, 2015, it was changed from the College of Life Science and Technology to the College of Engineering, which provided an opportunity to reflect on the original spirit of the establishment of the department by pursuing engineering goals based on convergence research. And we have re-established the department vision as follows

This department pursues traditional learning comprised of theology, church music theory, and practice of musical pastoral ministry. It also pursues expertise related to modern worship through worship planning, worship leading, worship ensemble, practical music theory and arrangement, recording & producing. Students participate in various practical training and are given opportunities to plan and lead worship in the school worship service. The department provides optimized education for enhancing the skills of church music specialists based on spirituality. The department awards Master of Divinity (M.Div. with C.M.) for training musical pastors. It is the only degree of its kind in Korea. And graduates can pursue various careers such as musical pastor, worship leader, minister specializing in church music, conductor, CCM artist, missionary, broadcaster, contents editor, public performance planner, institute president, etc. They can also engage in vigorous activities in domestic and overseas church circles and educational circles, mission fields, performance stages, etc.

The rapid expansion of various info-communication services in step with the advanced information society of the 21st century is placing increasing emphasis on the importance of the function and role of information. Thus, the demand for such services is increasing geometrically worldwide, leading to the rapid development of info-communication engineering technology. The educational purpose of the Department of Electronic Engineering is to foster human resources in the info-communication field who can lead the information society of the 21st century by researching, developing, and educating essential original and applied technologies that are required to confront the rapid technical development and changes. Furthermore, this department not only cultivates advanced technicians by improving the technology of national knowledge-based industries, thereby attracting manpower via related companies and carrying out specialized research and education but also promotes organic relations with companies and strengthens the competitiveness of knowledge-based industries in Korea.

As society rapidly changes while entering the 21st Century, the life of many individuals and families are weakening, and this is leading to social chaos. Hence, Korea Baptist Theological University/Seminary has established the Graduate School of Counseling (Dept. of Counseling Psychology) to contribute to building a bright and healthy church and future society by restoring individuals and families breaking down. If students complete the Counseling Psychology course, they receive the “Master of Culture (counseling and clinical psychology)” degree. And they can acquire a counseling specialist license acknowledged by our graduate school and a specialist license from various organizations including the Korean Association of Christian Counseling & Psychotherapy. Through this, graduates can work as counseling specialists and ministers in churches, counseling centers, hospitals, and schools. The Department of Counseling Psychology at the Graduate School of Counseling, which is a special graduate school with evening classes, can train competent counseling specialists needed in this day and age by providing education centered around systematic, specialized, and practical research.

The goal of the Department of Materials Design Engineering is to educate students to be challenging and creative individuals capable of competing in global textile industries by providing knowledge-based education essential for the industry. The textile industry has been playing a key role as a leading and main industry in Korea in terms of export and employment for last decades and has been recently reformed to technology-driven industry based on a new paradigm such as smart textiles and wearable computer incorporated with strategically important technologies such as information technology(IT), nanotechnology(NT), biotechnology(BT), and culture technology(CT). To match up with this paradigm, our department pursues excellence in producing experts required for the high value-added textile and fashion industry by innovating the curriculum on smart textile fields fused with IT, NT, and BT such as digital textile printing, textile CAD, and wearable computer, etc. Graduates with a master's and/or a doctoral degree have working for research institutes and companies relating to textile materials, manufacturing, finishing, planning, trade, distribution, etc.

The Graduate School of Theology was established with the purpose of contributing to the Korean Church, the country, and human society by raising professional pastors in the spirit of Christianity with the entire curriculum currently taking place in the Seoul Suyu-dong Campus. The Graduate School of Theology offers the degree course of Master of Divinity (M. Div.). The Master of Divinity course teaches a traditional curriculum of educating aspiring pastors in order to raise pastors for the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea based on the spirit of Presbyterianism and Hanshin University, which has led the trend in the world of theology and contributed to the reform of the Korean society as well as the progress of the church. This course aims to raise professional pastors with theological refinement and pastoral leadership, who have achieved the balance between scholarliness and piety through the qualitative enhancement of the former and the spiritual deepening of the latter. Students who have completed the undergraduate course in basic theology undergo two years of the master’s course, whereas those who completed a different degree go through three years of the same course. The academic research takes place in three main areas of biblical theology, theoretical theology, and practical theology, and centered around the inherent connections and balance between the seven subdivided fields of the Old Testament, the New Testament, systematic theology, history of the church, Christian ethics, theology in practice and Christian education, and pursues the inherent development of holistic theological research and piety in preparation for a creative ministry, both in the present and the future.