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▣ Compliance with University Policies

    - Registering as a Yonsei student constitutes a commitment by the student to abide by University policies, rules and regulations, including those concerning registration, academic performance, student conduct, health and safety, use of the libraries and computing resources, university facilities, and the payment of fees.
    - Students should take responsibility for informing themselves of applicable University policies, rules and regulations. Academic departments and other divisions of the university communicate essential and timely information to students through the University homepage bulletin board. It is the responsibility of the student to check these announcements that may affect his or her program.

▣ Enrollment Requirement and Time Limitation

■ Enrollment Requirement

  ● Students must complete 4 years (8 semesters) to obtain a bachelor's degree, except for the following programs:
    - Bachelor of Architecture: 5 years (10 semesters)
    - Doctor of Dental Surgery / Medical Doctor: 6 years (2+4 years) including pre-med/dentistry study periods (2 years)
    - Doctor of Pharmacy: 6 years for students starting from 1st year, 4 years for students transferring to 3rd year

■ Time Limitation for Completing Bachelors Degree Requirements

  ● All students must meet the requirements for completing the bachelor's degree program within 12 semesters. However, the following programs are an exception.
    - Bachelor of Architecture: 15 semesters
    - Doctor of Dental Surgery / Medical Doctor: 9 years (3+6 years) including pre-med/Dentistry program (3 years)
    - Doctor of Pharmacy: 6 years for students starting from 1st year, 4 years for students transferring to 3rd year
  ● Student who fail to fulfill the degree requirements within the above specified time limitation will be dismissed at the end of the final semester.
  ● Transfer students cannot prolong their study more than 1.5 times the number of semesters required to study at our university. Therefore, students transferring to the 3rd-year of a four-year bachelor's degree program must fulfill the degree requirements within three years(6 semesters), and those transferring to the 2nd-year within 9 semesters.

■ Early Graduation

  ● Students with a 3.75 or higher cumulative GPA may graduate by shortening one or two semesters when they complete all the graduation requirements in six or seven semesters.
  ● Students who are in the Integrated-Undergraduate-and-Graduate Program with 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA can receive a bachelor's degree after the seventh semester when they complete graduation requirements.
  ● Restrictions on Early Graduation
    - Students with an academic warning cannot apply for early graduation.
    - Transferred students are not allowed to apply for early graduation.
    - Students who are in the programs with 5 or more years of enrollment requirements, i.e., B.Arch., M.D., D.D.S., D.Phm. are not allowed to apply for early graduation.

▣ Leave of Absence, Return, Withdrawal, and Dismissal

     - Student must return any scholarships received prior to applying for a leave.
    - If a student applies for a leave of absence after 14 days have elapsed from the start of the semester, the student must pay the tuition fee before applying for the leave of absence.

■ Leave for obligatory military service

     - Students who have received an enlistment notice can apply for a military service leave.
    - Students can apply for a military service leave through the online Yonsei Portal Service. When applying for a leave for military service, a student must attach a copy of the “Notice of Enlistment” on the Yonsei Portal to get a permit for a leave.
    - If a student is enlisting after the 2/3 semester line, his course enrollment remains unchanged and will be graded.
    - If a student discharged from the military immediately after the enlistment, he must file a cancellation of leave form with the “Notice of Return” attached to the Academic Support Team at the Office of Academic Affairs within a week.
    - Students who enlist before 2/3 of the semester have elapsed will receive a refund of tuition according to the same standards as students on leave of absence for general reasons. If a student enlists after 2/3 of the semester has passed, the current semester is considered effective and there will be no tuition refund.

■ Leave for General Reasons

     - Students can apply for a leave of absence for general reasons (e.g., family matters, study abroad, medical issues, pregnancy/childbirth/child care, preparation for a business start-up etc.), or purposes of enlistment planning (when the enlistment notice has not been received yet).
    - Leave of absence is not allowed for the first semester of freshmen, transfer admission, double-major for graduate candidates or re-admission students. Enlistment in the military services, illness or pregnancy are exceptions to this restriction.
    - Undergraduate students desiring a leave of absence must formally apply for a Leave online through the Yonsei Portal Service.
    - Applying for a leave of absence for general reasons is permitted only until two thirds of a semester expires. A leave application due to an illness can be submitted up to a week before the beginning of the official final examination period.
    - Tuition refund will be wired to the student’s bank account registered on Yonsei Portal Service. The amount of tuition refunded will be determined according to university regulations as follows:

     - If a student is allowed a leave of absence for general reasons, all course enrollments will be canceled and will not be graded.
    - Total period of leave cannot exceed 6 semesters for freshmen-admission students and not more than 3 semesters for 3rd year transfer students. This maximum does not include any period of leave for obligatory military service.
  ● Leave for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Child Care
    - Students who would like to take a leave of absence due to pregnancy, childbirth or child care of children under 8 years old (under 2nd grade year in elementary school) may take an extra leave of absence for up to two years total in addition to the existing maximum leave period. When applying for this leave of absence, students must submit the following documents:
      ㆍFor pregnancy and birth: medical certificate
      ㆍFor child care: Family relation certificate
    - Students who would like to take a leave of absence due to pregnancy and childbirth must apply for a leave of absence no later than one week before final exam period starts (Leave of absence for child care must follow the rules for general leave of absence and may apply up to 2/3 of the semester).
    - In the case of childbirth, general leave of absence is exceptionally permitted during the first semester for students admitted through new admissions, transfer, double-major for prospective graduates, and re-admissions tracks.
  ● Leave for (Preparing) Business Start-up
    - Students who would like to take a leave of absence due to (Preparing) business start-up may take an extra leave of absence for up to two years in addition to the existing maximum leave period when they pass the screening of the Yonsei Enterprise Support Foundation.
    - For detailed information, please consult the Yonsei Enterprise Support Foundation (http://venture.yonsei.ac.kr).

■ Return from Leave of Absence

     - Students on the leave of absence should file application for return during the designated period through Yonsei Portal Service.
    - Students on the leave of absence for mandatory military service must file returning application or application for leave for general reasons no later than one year from the date of discharge.

■ Voluntary Withdrawal from the University

  ● Students desiring to withdraw from the University must file an official Withdrawal Request Form through the Academic Support Team of the Office of Academic Affairs.

■ Academic Probation and Dismissal

     - A student whose GPA is below 1.75 (on a 4.3 scale) will receive an academic warning, and three warnings will result in dismissal. A student dismissed because of poor academic standing can apply for readmission only if 2 years have passed since the dismissal took place.
    - Students failing to return after the allowed leave of absence period expires will be dismissed.
    - Students failing to pay tuition during the designated period will be dismissed.
    - Students failing to complete the graduation requirements within the maximum semester limit will be dismissed.
    - When freshmen, transferred students, double-majors for graduate candidate and readmitted students in the first semester do not enroll for any class during the designated period, they will be dismissed. Any students whose leave of absence period are expired do not enroll for any course during the designated period will be dismissed.
    - Deceased students will be dismissed.

■ Readmission

  ● Applicants’ qualifications
A student may obtain permission for readmission only once if there's a vacancy in the normal quota. One who is subject to any of the following conditions is banned from readmission:
    - Dismissed after readmission.
    - Dismissed as a result of university's disciplinary judgement.
    - Students dismissed because of poor academic standing are not allowed to apply for readmission for two years.
  ● A readmission fee, in addition to the tuition fee, will be imposed on readmitted students.
  ● All of the academic warning(s), enrollment periods, grades and credits a student received before dismissal are still effective after he/she is readmitted. Thus if a student dismissed for cumulated academic warnings receives one more academic warning after readmission, he/she will be dismissed permanently.

▣ Credit Acquisition

■ Academic Year and Semesters

     - The academic year at Yonsei University begins on the first day of March and ends on the last day of February.
    - Yonsei University operates on a semester system. The spring and fall semesters are each fifteen to sixteen weeks in length, beginning March 1 and September 1 each. Summer and winter programs supplement the spring and fall semesters.

■ Credits

  ● Credit Hour Value
All undergraduate courses are valued in credit hours. 1 credit is given for every 15 hours (or more) of lectures per semester. However, for a lab or practical training (physical education) course, 1 credit is given for every 30 hours (or more) per semester.
  ● Credit Limit per Semester
    - Credit limit that a student can take per semester differs based on the major.
    - Usually colleges and department with 126 credits of graduation requirement allows 18 credits per semester, and those with 135 or more credits of graduation requirement allows 19 credits per semester.
    - Students in the Linked-Undergraduate-and-Graduate Program, students in the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy are allowed to take up to 24 credits per semester.

■ Course Registration

  ● Course registration takes place online during the announced period prior to the start of a new semester. All students are asked to complete course registration during the designated period through Yonsei Portal Service (http://portal.yonsei.ac.kr) unless they are on the leave of absence.
  ● Students who do not register for courses at all until the end of the course add-drop period will be treated as general leave of absence.
  ● When a student who has exhausted his/her leave of absence period does not enroll for any courses by the end of the course add-drop period, the student will be dismissed. Students who are in their first semester after freshmen admission, transfer admission, double-majors for graduate candidate and readmission will be dismissed if they do not register for courses by the end of the course add-drop period.
  ● Taking graduate level courses
    - Third-year or fourth-year undergraduate students are eligible to enroll in graduate school courses for up to 6 credits per semester and up to 12 credits overall.
    - The graduate courses can either be counted toward undergraduate graduation requirements or be reserved for graduate degree requirements, but cannot count toward both degrees.
    - For students admitted in 2022 or thereafter, grades earned from graduate courses will not be considered in computing the GPA if they are applied to the graduate degree requirements. For students admitted in 2021 and before, even if credits from graduate courses are recognized as credits for undergraduate degree requirements, the grades in those courses are not reflected in the GPA calculation.

■ Course Withdrawal

If a student wishes to withdraw from a course after the course add-drop period is over, he/she can apply for withdrawal during the designated period through Yonsei Portal Service.
When a student withdraws from a course, he/she will be exempt from the honor roll for the semester as well as the graduate honor roll.

■ Course Repetition

  ● Restrictions on the Repetition
    - Course Repetition is allowed four times maximum.
  ● Counting grades for repeated courses
    - If a course is repeated using the 4-time opportunity, the previous grade and course credits will be removed from the student's total course credits and GPA even if the latter grade is lower than the previous one.
    - For a failed course (F grade course), a student may repeat the course even if the student has used up all of the 4-time opportunity, but in such case previously received 'F' will not be removed from the GPA. In order to use the 4-time opportunity for removal of previous course credits and grade make sure to check the box for 'Course Repeat' during the course registration and course add/drop period.
    - If a student repeats a course, the highest grade a student can receive is 'A0' (4.0). Students cannot receive 'A+' and only the most recent grade and credits will count toward graduation requirements.
    - Repetition of a course may change the GPA but all the academic warnings will remain in effect.