Freshman orientation (Cheongram Training) Before enrolling in the school, the National Police University provides freshmen with a two-week orientation program to help them understand the organization of the university and the police. Freshmen are given insights on the police and the police university by participating in introductory programs such as the university curriculum, campus life, and lectures titled 'History of the Police and the Police University' and 'Future-oriented Ways as a Police Officer.' Badges are attached to the uniforms of the freshmen students, which means the end of the orientation week. Cheongram Training has been drastically changed as part of the reform of KNPU. It was composed to eliminate the remnants of the military culture and develop one's skills as a democratic citizen. The period was also reduced from two weeks to one week. These changes represent the recent direction of KNPU reform.
Curriculum - Regular Semesters Major subjects Four majors of police law,
criminal investigation, police administration, and 30 credits need to be taken for each course. Major courses may be taken from the junior years, and deals with police law, police administration, and police science related to practice.
Major base subjects The major base subjects is a previous phase designed for the study of majored subjects, which have academic curricula to lay a basis for law, public administration, and police science. Students attend the class from their 1st graded to 4th graded 1st semester. A total of 85 academic credits should be completed. The department of law regulates the completion of law (43 credits) and public administration (12 credits) and the department of public administration regulates 35-credit law and 20-credit public administration. The two departments regulate the completion of the police science (30 credits).
Liberal arts The subjects for liberal arts regulates the completion of 25 academic credits by the whole students (15 mandatory and 10 optional). The subjects consist of general liberal arts subjects necessary for university graduates to learn, and foreign language classes. Foreign language classes are classified into English and the second foreign language.
Summer/winter semesters Summer/winter semesters are offered in spring, summer and winter semesters. In summer for four weeks before summer vacation, English, computer,
swimming, shooting, driving and police station field training are offered. In winter, the same training is offered as for summer except for swimming and driving. As for the 4th grade students, the enlistment training is conducted in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence at the winter semester for male students; and during the same period, female students take executive works at the Police Office or provide social service activities.
Foreign Language Education Foreign language education is composed of learning English and a second foreign language, and is concentrated in the summer and winter seasonal semester of 1st year, total class time of which is 90 hours in 3 weeks. Subjects covered are TOEIC, TEPS and 2nd foreign language special lectures. This supplements regular semester curriculum which focuses on comprehension and grammar.
Police Field Duty training Practical training at police stations covers Anti-crime (I), Investigation (II), Detective (III) and Traffic (IV) areas. This training starts from the winter semester of the 2nd year, and during this training period, students acquire field experiences. The training also helps the students acquire the experience needed for the entry level administrative staff. Besides this training for which two credits are given, there are field trip programs to crime-related institutions such as the headquarters of police and courts and correctional institutes.
Practical subjects Practical subjects are non-credit subjects and computer, swimming, driving and shooting are in this category. ==Dress code==