National Mokpo University to Implement Integrated Transfer System for Pharmacy Department

Providing Fair Opportunities to All Students on an Equal Basis

National Mokpo University (President Song Ha-cheol) announced on the 22nd that starting from the 2025 academic year, it will implement a system in which applicants wishing to transfer into the Department of Pharmacy and those wishing to change majors (transfer between recruitment units) will undergo the same selection process.

Mokpo National University Campus View

From the 2024 academic year, the 2+4 year pharmacy transfer system, represented by the Pharmacy Education Eligibility Test (PEET), will be abolished, and a general transfer system (general transfer and bachelor’s transfer) will be applied to all pharmacy departments nationwide. Universities including Mokpo University are preparing the pharmacy transfer criteria to be applied from next year.

This system allows students from other departments or faculties to transfer into the pharmacy department after completing their second year, requiring PEET scores, official English test scores, and grades from their previous department(s) upon transfer.

However, if only the transfer criteria are operated, students from other universities can apply for transfer without restrictions, but Mokpo University students would face an unreasonable situation where they cannot advance to the pharmacy department of their own university.

Accordingly, on the 3rd of this month, Mokpo University revised its academic regulations based on Article 29, Paragraph 4 of the Enforcement Decree of the Higher Education Act to ensure that all qualified students have equal opportunities to enter the pharmacy department. Starting January 1, 2025, if there are available seats within the quota, current students will be allowed to change majors to the pharmacy department after undergoing the same evaluation and screening process as transfer applicants.

To enable all students nationwide who intend to enter the pharmacy department to compete fairly on an equal footing, strict evaluation criteria comparable to the existing PEET exam will be established and applied equally to both the pharmacy transfer and major change systems.

Regarding this revision of the academic regulations, Ryu Dong-young, Dean of Academic Affairs at Mokpo University, stated, “From the perspective of providing equal opportunities to all students in Korea, we have allowed Mokpo University students to change majors to the pharmacy department based on the higher law, the Enforcement Decree of the Higher Education Act. As a national university, Mokpo University plans to establish reasonable standards that meet public expectations and apply them equally to those wishing to transfer or change majors to the pharmacy department, thereby creating an environment where all students can compete fairly.”

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