The faculty serves as a center of distance education on a nationwide scale in social science sector and makes a positive contribution to preparing all members of society as intelligent workers and the developers of science and technology in accordance with the requirement that all the people be well-versed in science and technology.
It was established as College of Distance Education in 2014, began implementing its teaching curriculum since April, 2015 and was renamed the present Faculty of Distance Education in October 2019.
It has Distance Education Section and 5 offices(Teaching Administration Office, Education Resources Preparation Office, Distance Education Editing Office, Distance Education Operation and Research Office, and Research and Development Office).
It has many departments such as Political Economics Department, Economic Management Department, Revolutionary History Department, Juche Philosophy Department, Law Department, Journalism Department, Finance Department, Applied Mathematics Department, Applied Physics Department, Information Science Department, Chemistry Department, Synthetic Chemistry Department, Life Science Department, Life Engineering Department, Land Environment Department, Hydrometeorology Department, Marine Science, Applied Geology Department, Mechanics Department, Materials Engineering Department, Automation Engineering Department, Forestry Department and Programming Department.
