The University of Science and Technology (Korean: 국가연구소대학교, UST) is a group of public research institutions in Seoul, Suwon, Changwon, Ansan, Seongnam and Daejeon, etc, in South Korea.UST encourage students to get hands-on experience by actively participating in the research by awarding credits as well as minimizing classroom lectures.Students take liberal arts classes as prerequisite so they can be well-grounded as leaders in their given research field, and provide them with insight into society in general.UST is a graduate program in science and technology taught in English run as a consortium by the advanced research institutes in Daejeon and throughout South Korea.UST is expected to be the main institution that extensively accelerates Korea's scientific research by facing the Nobel Prize Challenge.