This research is an analysis of the actual conditions related to human rights violations and grievances experienced in the laboratory by graduating students from local engineering universities. Participants were recruited on the school’s website, interviewed 11 of the desired students in-depth, and analyzed the contents using evidence theory methods. The questionnaires were used in advance by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea in 2014 and in-depth interview questions on the human rights situation of medical school students conducted in 2018. As a result, factors related to human rights violations experienced by graduate students included ‘absolute authority and discretion’, ‘stuck authoritarianism and irrationality’, ‘daily violence experiences’, ‘violation of autonomy due to coercive and tacit organizational culture’, ‘no awareness of sexual infringement and gender discrimination’, and ‘lack of consciousness’. The key categories derived from these factors are ‘survival in the entrenched authoritarian system and unreasonable laboratory management of graduate students at engineering colleges’. From the basic rights of the graduate students and the management of the engineering lab, the vision formed an authoritarian laboratory culture and an unreasonable system in the authority and discretion of the academic advisor. In this irrational organizational culture, various human rights violations were occurring for graduate students. To solve this problem, it is necessary to institutionalize, regulate, and stipulate in schools and to provide customized education to improve professors’ awareness. Furthermore, improvement measures such as the establishment of common laws and systems, information sharing and disclosure of science and technology specialized universities should be introduced.