Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Rankings 2025
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- KAIST US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- KAIST QS Ranking 2025
- KAIST THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
- KAIST ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
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KAISTRanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A++ by Shiksha Grading, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is also rated A++ for courses, such as MS and MIM. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology courses are in the range of A++ and C++ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ranks #53, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #56 in 2024. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology also ranks #83 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2024. As compared to the last year, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #91 in 2023.
Check out more details on Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ranking in the below content.
By Shiksha Study AbroadUniversity Ranking
KAISTUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
Global Universities | 280 | 282 | 296 |
KAISTQS Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
---|---|---|---|
World University | 42 | 56 | 53 |
Accounting and Finance | 51 | 64 | – / – |
Art and Design | – / – | 46 | – / – |
Biological Sciences | 51 | 88 | – / – |
Engineering and Technology | 24 | 20 | – / – |
Mathematics | 42 | 61 | – / – |
Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | 24 | 39 | – / – |
Medicine | – / – | 201 | – / – |
Physics and Astronomy | 51 | 66 | – / – |
Sociology | – / – | 301 | – / – |
KAISTTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
University | 99 | 91 | 83 |
Arts and Humanities | – / – | 176 | 176 |
Engineering | 33 | 35 | 35 |
PG Business and Economics | 176 | 126 | 151 |
PG Computer Science | 37 | 44 | 46 |
KAISTARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
---|---|---|---|
Universities | 201 | 201 | 201 |
Mathematics | 201 | 201 | – / – |
Physics | 401 | 301 | – / – |
KAISTCourse Ranking
Shiksha has graded Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology streams, such as Engineering, Arts ( Fine / Visual / Performing ), and Science with A++ grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
However, in case students are wondering how well is Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology ranked for its subjects as per other ranking bodies, the institute is popular for its Engineering & Technology, Mechanical Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering, Engineering, and PG Computer Science courses all over the world. In the QS ranking 2024, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology stands at #20 for Engineering & Technology program. Additionally, it is also ranked at #39 for Mechanical Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering. Other than these, Art & Design at #46, and Mathematics at #61 also got ranked by QS 2024. It is recommended to study Engineering & Technology as it ranks #20 by QS (the best ranked course of this institute under this ranking body). This ranking stood at #24 in 2023.
Read on to learn more about Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology courses and subject rankings in the below article.
M.A.
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 |
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QS - Sociology | - | 301 |
QS - Art and Design | - | 46 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - Arts and Humanities | 176 | 176 |
MIM
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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QS - Accounting and Finance | 51 | 51 | 64 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - PG Business and Economics | 176 | 126 | 151 |
MS
Ranked by | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
---|---|---|---|
QS - Physics and Astronomy | - | 51 | 51 |
QS - Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | - | 22 | 24 |
QS - Mathematics | - | 51 | 42 |
QS - Biological Sciences | - | 51 | 51 |
QS - Engineering and Technology | - | 20 | 24 |
ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Mathematics | - | 201 | 201 |
ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) - Physics | 401 | 401 | 301 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - Engineering | - | 33 | 35 |
THE (Times Higher Education) - PG Computer Science | - | 37 | 44 |
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The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is a public research university established in 1971, in Daejeon, South Korea. The university is known for its state-of-the-art research facility and high-quality education to its students.
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is located in Daejeon, South Korea. It is a public research university, established in 1971. The South Korea state is one of the popular study destination among international students having many top ranked universities.
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