| Month/Year | Events |
|---|---|
| Nov. 24 1980 | * First Master degrees authorized in Urban Administration, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Landscape Architecture. |
| Nov. 25 1981 | * Departments of Architectural Engineering and Public Administration granted permission to offer Master degrees. |
| Nov. 22 1982 | * Department of Business Administration granted permission to offer Master degree. |
| Feb. 22 1983 | * First Master degrees conferred (four in Landscape Architecture, three in Civil Engineering, one in Environmental Engineering and three in Chemical Engineering) during the 1982 Winter Commencement. |
| Oct. 29 1983 | * First Doctorate degrees authorized in Urban Administration, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Chemical Engineering. * Department of Electronic Engineering granted permission to offer Master degree. |
| Nov. 27 1984 | * Master degrees authorized in Accounting, Economics, Law, and International Trade.
* Doctorate degree authorized in Architectural Engineering. |
| Nov. 9 1987 | * Master degrees authorized in Environmental Horticulture, Urban Planning, Korea Language & Literature and Industrial Arts. * Doctorate degrees authorized in Business Administration and Economics. |
| Nov. 30 1988 | * Master degree authorized in English Language & Literature.
* Doctorate degree authorized in Law. |
| Feb. 22 1989 | * First Doctorate degrees conferred (one in Civil Engineering, one in Environmental Engineering) during the 1988 Winter Commencement. |
| Nov. 9 1990 | * Master degrees authorized in Korean History and Computer Science & Statistics. * Doctorate degrees authorized in Landscape Architecture, Electronic Engineering, and Urban Planning. |
| Nov. 15 1991 | * Doctorate degrees authorized in Environmental Horticulture and Korea Language & Literature. |
| Sep. 4 1993 | * Department of Mathematics granted permission to offer Master degree.
* Department of Urban Planning changed name to Department of Urban Engineering. |
| Oct. 18 1995 | * Master degree authorized in Control and Instrumentation. |
| Nov. 2 1996 | * Departments of Science in Taxation, Transportation Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering granted permission to offer Master degree. * Changed quota management style from total quota to entrance quota from 1997 on. - Graduate School Masters program entrance quota is 201.
- Graduate School Doctorate program entrance quota is 69. |
| Oct. 25 1997 | * Master degrees authorized in Physics and Semiconductor Engineering.
- Masters program entrance quota increased to 255. * Doctorate degree authorized in Control and Instrumentation. - Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 74. |
| Nov. 13 1998 | * Master degree authorized in Life Science.
- Masters program entrance quota increased to 261.
* Doctorate degree authorized in Korean History.
- Departments of Electronic Engineering, Control & Instrumentation and Semiconductor Engineering merged and changed name to Department of Electrical Engineering. - Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 76.
- Departments of Electronic Engineering and Control & Instrumentation merged and changed name to Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Nov. 2 1999 | * Masters program entrance quota increased to 314. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 94. |
| Jul. 18 2000 | * Masters program entrance quota increased to 320. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 99. * Master degree authorized in Social Welfare. * Department of Electrical Engineering changed name to Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. * Department of Urban Social Welfare changed name to Department of Social Welfare. |
| Aug. 1 2000 | * Office of Graduate Affairs merged to Office of Academic Affairs. |
| Jul. 28 2001 | * Masters program entrance quota increased to 335. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 110. * Departments of Urban Sociology and Nano Science & Technology granted permission to offer Master degree. * Doctorate degree authorized in Life Science. |
| Oct. 30 2002 | * Masters program entrance quota increased to 357.
* Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 123. * Master degrees authorized in Geoinformatics and Architecture. * Doctorate degree authorized in Architecture. * Collaboration program with KIST(Master and Doctorate degree) launched. * Department of Materials Science & Engineering changed name to Department of New Materials Engineering. |
| Sep. 27 2003 | * Department of Science in Taxation and majors of industrial design and product design in Department of Industrial Arts abolished. * Masters program entrance quota decreased to 352. * Department of Industrial Arts replaced by Department of Environmental Sculpture. * Department of Computer Science & Statistics divided to Computer Science major and Statistics major. |
| Sep. 2004 | * Departments of Geoinformatics and Social Welfare granted permission to offer Doctorate degree.
* Masters program entrance quota decreased to 343. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 132. |
| Aug. 29 2005 | * Doctorate degree authorized in Department of Nano Engineering which is inter-departmental cooperation program(5 entrance quota). * Department of Accounting merged to Department of Business Administration. * Department of International Trade merged to Department of Economics. |
| Sep. 7 2006 | * Doctorate degree authorized in Department of Disaster Science which is inter-departmental cooperation program. |
| Jul. 27 2007 | * Master degree authorized in Music. * Masters program entrance quota increased to 387. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 156. |
| Oct. 27 2008 | * Master and Doctorate programs in Department of Law abolished.
* Doctorate degrees authorized in Philosophy and Urban Sociology. * Masters program entrance quota decreased to 382. * Doctorate program entrance quota increased to 161. |
| Oct. 15 2009 | * Department of Urban Environmental System Engineering established and granted permission to offer Master and Doctorate degree. |
| Jul. 15 2010 | * Department of Urban Environmental System Engineering changed name to Department of Energy and Environmental System Engineering. |
| Nov. 29 2010 | * Department of Computer Science & Statistics
divided to Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics * Master degree authorized in Department of Sports Information * Masters program entrance quota increased to 387. |
