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The FAU Busan Graduate School admits a selected number of students onto the Master's program in Chemical and Bioengineering.

Applicants will have the opportunity to apply for every new spring or fall semester, as FAU Busan will admit around 25 students twice a year. FAU Busan does not exclusively address university graduates from South Korea, it also welcomes applicants from Japan, China and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. FAU Busan is looking forward to promoting a spirit of international cooperation and exchange of different perspectives.

Applicants are required to have a bachelor's degree from a university in South Korea or another country. In order to prove proficiency in English adequate for communicating in an international engineering education and research environment, applicants will also need an official certificate of English ability such as TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS, GRE or an equivalent result in a similar recognized language test.
Selected candidates will be invited for an oral entrance exam/interview and written test in English. They will have to demonstrate their knowledge of chemical and bioengineering and their problem-solving skills.
Candidates who successfully pass in all subjects covered by the exam will be admitted unconditionally.

1. Schedule

(1) Application Period 1st April until 15th July 2012

Qualified applicants will get permission based on a first-come-first-served basis in case of application until 30th April 2012. Please take the advantage of early application.

a. Method - per e-mail AND post (original documents via post)
Division Schedule Place
Application
per e-mail AND post (original documents via post)
Until ’12 July 15th
18:00
studies@busan.fau.de
Documents submission Until ’12 July 15th
18:00
Per e-mail and post
Secondary oral and written test/
interview in English
(only for selected applicants above)
End of July
(individual notification)
FAU Busan Campus
(and/or if needed, telephone interview)
Announcement of final
successful applicants
End of July
(individual notification)
Individual notification

✽ The schedule above could be changed as it may chance

2. Areas / Volume of recruitment

Areas Volume

Chemical and Bioengineering

1. Bioprocess Engineering
2. Chemical Reaction Engineering
3. Fluid Mechanics
4. Separation Science & Technology
5. Environmental Process Engineering
6. Mechanical Process Technology
Master degree 25

3. Qualification

(1) Bachelor or preparatory bachelor in Aug. 2012 with excellent credit
(2) Fluent English, excellent scholastic ability, sufficient knowledge in relevant area, enthusiasm for research
(3) Graduates from universities or study programs with English as instruction language are considered as having proven their ability in English automatically.
However, if needed, TOEFL or IELTS could be requested additionally
✽ All classes are in English.
(4) It is possible that applicants with a Dipl.-Ing. Degree from a Fachhochschule (FH) will be subject to special conditions.

4. Required documents

Division Method of application
Application  
Resume  
Official Certificate
of English ability
Per e-mail (PDF attachment) and per post
Certificate of degree  

✽ Send the application to studies@busan.fau.de
✽ Every document has to be provided as a PDF file
✽ Every document has to be provided in English
✽ After sending per e-mail, all the original copies should be delivered per post

(1) Resume, cover letter, diploma, certificate of degree (or preparatory one), transcript of records and the list of subjects which are not on the transcript (only for preparatory bachelor), grade ranking (including information about the whole number of students in the university)
(2) Official certificate of English ability :
Every certificate which can prove your English ability is acceptable
(TOEIC, TOEFL, IELTS etc. all kinds of certificate)
(3) Not compulsory, but if possible :
Verification of English ability (hours of grade), GATE (only for Indian), GRE
(4) Official document related to university or school : certificates which can prove that you took relevant classes.
Copy of notarization (if not English, German, French, verification of original text translation is compulsory)
(5) Score Report of College Scholastic Ability Test (issuable on the Internet)

5. Procedure - Screening, oral exam / interview in English

(1) Screening
(2) Oral exam: only for the selected applicants
Evaluation on the basic knowledge related to major, problem-solving ability, and English ability
(3) Interview will be held in English at FAU Busan Campus with German professor in person and/or if needed, with professor in Germany on the phone
✽ The applicants do not need to make a payment of screening fee to apply for FAU Busan.

6. Candidates who successfully pass in all subjects covered by the exam will be admitted unconditionally.

7. Benefit

(1) For support for starting student, all the tuition is exempted
(2) Grant the Master degree of FAU
(3) Supply the opportunity for internship at global German companies like Siemens, Audi, Bayer, BMW, BASF, etc. but also domestic industry
(4) Participation in global research projects
(5) Additional allowances for research participation (differential rates of pay)
(6) Support for job and/or research opportunity after graduation

8.Person in charge of application information

(1) Tel: 051-899-8055 Student Service Team
(2) E-mail: studies@fau-busan.org
(3) Address: FAU Busan, 1276 Jisa-Dong, Gangseo-Gu, Busan 618-230
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