Seoul, KR · 18 months
SKK GSB MBA: cost, salary and payback
An English-language MBA in Seoul for $39,509 of tuition, whose graduates go into consumer goods more than at any other school on this site.
Paid back after graduation in
salary not published
Total cost $175,478
| Tuition and fees, whole program | $40,478 |
| Living budget | $0 |
| Salary given up, 18 months | $135,000 |
| Total cost | $175,478 |
| Salary after: salary | not published |
US dollars at the ECB rate of the last update. Raises of 5% a year with the MBA and 3% without, discounted at 5%, before tax. The school publishes no living budget: the figure above is yours. How this is calculated.
Fees and budget read on October 13, 2026 · employment: Class of 2025 (school standard) · Built by Radif Partners · Method
- Tuition and fees
- ₩54,300,000
- Total cost, salary given up included
- n/a
- Salary
- not published
- Payback, reference person
- not computable
SKK GSB, the graduate business school of Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, charges ₩53,000,000 in tuition for its 18-month full-time MBA taught in English, about $39,509 at the ECB rate, plus an entrance fee of ₩1,300,000. That is the whole bill the school publishes. It gives no living budget for Seoul and no salary for its graduating class, so the total cost for a person earning $90,000 today cannot be completed here, and there is no payback or ten-year value to show. What can be counted is the pay that person gives up: $135,000 over the 18 months, more than 3 times the tuition. The figure that sets the school apart is where its class goes: 33% of the class of 2025 went into consumer goods and retail, the largest share in that industry of any school on this site, and 93% of graduates were employed within three months.
A consumer-goods pipeline, on the figures it shows
No school on this site reports a larger share of its class in consumer goods than SKK GSB. 33% of the class of 2025 went into consumer goods, retail and e-commerce, against 13% in financial services. Consulting comes second at 21%, and manufacturing third at 17%. For a candidate aiming at a brand, sales or strategy role with a Korean or global consumer group, that mix is the most useful signal the school gives. For banking it is a weak one: the finance share is small, and the school prints no salary by industry to say what those jobs pay.
The employment rate needs the same caution. The school says 93% of graduates were employed within three months, but the image that carries the figure does not say which class it describes, and no employer list or split by country is published.
SKK GSB: where the class went
Share of the class
21%
| Salary reported | not published |
| Graduates, about | n/a |
| Payback with that salary | n/a |
Reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA.
What the school leaves out, and why it matters here
SKK GSB publishes no starting salary for its graduates. The number it puts forward is an alumni salary three years after the degree, expressed in purchasing power parity dollars and taken from the Financial Times alumni survey. That measures a later stage of a career on another currency basis, so we do not use it as a starting salary. The school also gives no living budget for Seoul. Without those two lines there is no payback to compute, and SKK GSB stays out of our rankings while its cost lines remain complete on this page.
The time away can still be counted. The program runs 18 months, so a person earning $90,000 gives up $135,000 of pay before tax, against $39,509 of tuition. A class that arrives with 6.5 years of work on average often earns more than the reference figure, which raises that line further: type your own salary in the calculator at the top, then add your own rent and food in Seoul.
The salary you give up while you study
Salary given up, net of the internship
$157,500
| Gross salary not earned | $157,500 |
| Per month away | $7,500 |
Pension contributions and raises you would have had are not counted here.
Tuition in won, below most schools on this site
Only 7 of the 73 schools on this site that publish tuition charge less than SKK GSB's ₩53,000,000 for three semesters. Merit scholarships are awarded at admission and apply to tuition in Korea only, not to semesters spent at a partner school; the school does not say how many students receive one. Because the bill is in won, a candidate paid in dollars, euros or another currency carries the exchange rate for the whole program. The converter below uses the ECB rate this site is built on.
A fee or a salary in US dollars
In US dollars
$111,880
| 1 EUR | $1.119 |
ECB reference rate of October 13, 2026. Prices on the ground do not follow exchange rates one for one.
Where SKK GSB stands in our rankings
Not ranked: SKK GSB does not publish a living budget for students or a graduate salary, which our ranking needs. Its cost is complete above.
Our fit score, reference person earning $90,000 before the MBA (method). Third-party rankings play no part in it.
What the SKK GSB MBA costs
| Item | KRW, and US dollars |
|---|---|
| Tuition, whole program | ₩53,000,000 $39,509 |
| Mandatory fees | ₩1,300,000 $969 |
| Living budget | not published |
SKK GSB employment report: Class of 2025
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Graduates who employed within three months | 93% |
SKK GSB graduates by industry
| Industry, as the school names it | Share | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer Goods (FMCG) + Retail / E-Commerce | 33% | not published |
| Consulting | 21% | not published |
| Manufacturing / Industrial | 17% | not published |
| Financial Service | 13% | not published |
| Start-up + Media / Entertainment + Other | 12% | not published |
| Healthcare/Bio | 4% | not published |
The SKK GSB class
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| International students | 54% |
| Women | 49% |
| Average age | 31 |
| Average years of work experience | 6.5 |
Not published by SKK GSB in the documents we read: a living budget for students; a graduate salary; where graduates went to work; the split by job function. We leave these blank rather than fill them with an estimate.