KAIST will establish an “artificial intelligence (AI) college” starting next yr. The total number of scholars will improve by 300, together with 100 undergraduate college students. Starting with KAIST, the Ministry of Science and ICT will establish AI faculties sequentially in different three main science and engineering establishments, together with Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), and Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), to construct an “AI talent training belt.”
The Ministry of Science and ICT and KAIST held a board assembly of KAIST on the eleventh and introduced that they’ve finalized the “KAIST AI College Establishment Plan.” The resolution got here from a way of disaster that it couldn’t be additional pushed out of the worldwide AI hegemony struggle and expertise battle.
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KAIST’s synthetic intelligence (AI) undergraduate course, which will open next spring semester, could be chosen as a significant by first-year college students who entered this yr. KAIST is a system that selects new college students with out majors and determines majors within the second grade. 100 undergraduate freshmen will be chosen from the 2027 entrance examination. In different phrases, the number of KAIST recruits will improve that a lot from freshmen in 2027. KAIST has already reportedly elevated the number of recruits barely next yr.
The graduate course, which selects 150 masters and 50 docs, will obtain new college students from the autumn semester and start full-scale operation. As a measure to extend the scale of the home AI workforce in a brief time period, there are excessive expectations that it will give a welcome rain to industries affected by power scarcity of manpower.
The authorities and KAIST have determined to establish AI faculties and improve the number of scholars by 300 as a result of the topographic map of home AI personnel is so disastrous.
According to the “2025 Global Digital Competitiveness Rankings” not too long ago launched by the Swiss Institute for International Management Development, Korea ranked fifteenth, down 9 locations from the earlier yr. In specific, its competitiveness within the ‘expertise’ class was forty ninth out of 69 nations, successfully failing. The manpower scarcity on the web site has already exceeded the hazard degree. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Planning and Evaluation predicted that there will be a scarcity of no less than 580,000 individuals in new applied sciences similar to AI alone over the next 5 years.
Starting with KAIST, the federal government has determined to make all-out efforts to domesticate AI elite personnel. The newly established AI faculty has an built-in schooling system that encompasses undergraduate and graduate colleges, and has 4 AI computing departments, AI techniques departments, AX (AI conversion) departments, and AI future research below its wing. The college plans to proceed to broaden starting with a total of 20 full-time academics, 5 for every division.
Other science and know-how institutes that will establish AI faculties in 2027 search to distinguish themselves in reference to native specialised industries. GIST focuses on vitality and mobility, UNIST focuses on shipbuilding and maritime, and DGIST focuses on bodily AI (robotic).
KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyung stated, “KAIST AI University will be a new standard for fostering innovative talents,” including, “KAIST will take the lead in building three AI powers in Korea by working closely with the government, local universities, and industry.”
[Reporter Lee Saebom]