To encourage students to study and to minimize educational losses by providing students with an opportunity to choose a major more suited to their aptitudes.

• Eligibility:Freshmen in the 2nd semester / Sophomores in the 1st semester, currently enrolled or due to return to school ( ※ Students enrolled on a 3-year course may apply to switch majors in the 2nd semester of their sophomore year.)
• Required Documents: ① One copy of the application to switch majors ② One copy of the transcript of grades.

• Students may be allowed to switch majors regardless of their current major.
• If a student wishes to shift to another department with a 3-year course, his/her course will be regarded as having been extended to 3 years.
• Switching from a daytime major to a nighttime major is not allowed ？ Students may only switch between daytime majors or between nighttime majors.
• Students are allowed to switch majors no more than twice while enrolled at the school.
• Approval to switch majors is based on the same criteria as the entrance examination specified per each department; however, the target department may not approve of the switch.
• Foreign students who have been admitted to the school via screening are required to have passed TOPIK at level 3 or higher in order to apply to switch majors.
• If a foreign student’s major falls in the categories of engineering, art, music, or physical education, he/she shall take the Korean language course at the International Exchange Institute of Daelim University College for more than 6 months and submit the certificate of attendance issued by the institute, and should have TOPIK at level 2 to be able to apply to switch majors.
• Students who are enrolled on industrial consignment education or intensive major courses are not allowed to switch majors.
• Special entrants for linked education are not allowed to switch majors.
• Switching from a 3-year major to a 2-year one is not allowed.
• Switching to the Department of Early Childhood Education is NOT allowed.

• Students accepted to switch majors must earn more than 54 credits (80 credits for 3-year course students) in order to graduate, including the required subjects for their previous major.
• Liberal arts credits earned for the previous major will be acknowledged.
• Students accepted to switch majors may not be allowed to graduate if they lack major credits.
• However, students whose major course has been closed will have their earned credits acknowledged for the major according to Clause 7 (3), Article 16 (Application for acknowledgment of credits) of the Academic Regulations.
• Students accepted to switch majors are not allowed to change their school registration status such as dropout or leave of absence in the semesters of that year .

Selected according to the screening criteria of each department (division).

• STEP 01

  Filling out the application to switch majors

• STEP 02

  Submission of the application to the current department

• STEP 03

  Screening

  at the target department

• STEP 04

  Announcement of the result

  individually

• STEP 05

  Course enrollment and registration

Please refer to the information notice on switching majors for the screening schedule and criteria per semester.