IDKAIST exchange students with the following universities based on department-level MOUs. 
- School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati, USA
- Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Also, there are almost 70 university-level student exchange programs with which IDKAIST send and take students. Here are examples. 
- Department of Design, Alto University, Finland
- Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- School of Design School, RMIT University, Australia