Gyeongsang National University information

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Gyeongsang National University (GNU, 경상국립대학교) is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities located in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province.

Gyeongsang National University has twelve colleges such as arts, social science, natural science, engineering, agriculture and life science, management, veterinary, education, nursing, and medicine and eight graduate schools such as medicine and public health, business administration, education, aerospace, industry etc. Other institutions with the university are the university library, university museum, student center, university newspaper, broadcasting center, publishing company, institute for education of science talented, Korean language cultural center and so on. The current statistics of Gyeongsang National University shows that it has 1,681 academic staffs including 808 full-time professors, 361 administrative staffs and 24,502 students including undergraduate and graduate students enrolled. The university has three campuses and two of these are located in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province and the other is located in Tongyeong. The main campus is located at Gajwa-Dong in the city of Jinju, Chilam campus. Jinju has the college of medicine, and Tongyeong campus, an hour from Jinju by car, has the college of Marine Science.

The motto of Gyeongsang National University(GNU) is Pioneer, and it states that the eyes of pioneers see far beyond the present to the future. The history of the university begun as Jinju Agricultural College founded in Jinju in 1948, then, accredited as national college in 1968 and in 1972, renamed as Gyeongsang National College. In 1980, the college was accredited as a national university by the ministry of education and renamed as Gyeongsang National University. For more than 60 years since its foundation, Gyeongsang National University has been educating talented students who have served not only for local community but also for national prosperity by leading them to be bigger asset in many places such as communities, industries, businesses and around the country and the world.

Gyeongsang National University is well known for many achievements in applied life science along with biochemistry, agricultural science, and veterinary. One of these is that the researchers at the university discovered a way to make cloned Turkish Angora cats glow red when exposed to ultraviolet light in 2007.^[1]

The Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health at Gyeongsang National University is a medical training and research institution in South Gyeongsang Province. Gyeongsang National University Hospital was opened with 419 beds in 1987 as the university hospital of Gyeongsang National University and is located next to the college of medicine in Chilam campus and has grown to a general and multispecialty medical hospital with 950 beds operating with specialty centers such as the local cancer center opened as the first local cancer center of its kinds in the country and rheumatoid arthritis center. Gyeongsang National University Hospital at Changwon is newly open as the second Gyeongsang National University hospital in February, 2016. The university hospital at Changwon has begun with 208 beds and is going to grow according to the number of patients hospitalized.

Overview of GNU's past and present

• October 20, 1948: Founded as Jinju Agricultural College by the provincial government of South Gyeongsang
• July 11, 1972: Accredited as Gyeongsang National College
• March 1, 1975: Established the graduate school
• March 1, 1980: Accredited as Gyeongsang National University by the government of Republic of Korea
• March 1, 1983: Established the College of Medicine
• February 21, 1987: Inaugurated the Gyeongsang National University Hospital
• March 1, 1988: Established the Graduate School of Business and Public Administration
• March 1, 1989: Established the College of Veterinary Medicine
• March 1, 1993: Established the College of Business Administration
• March 1, 1995: Established the College of Marine Science by merging the Tong-Yeong Junior College of Fisheries
• March 1, 1996: Established the Graduate School of Industry
• March 1, 2010: Graduate School of Public Health established
• December 16, 2011: Dr.Kwon Soon Ki appointed 9th President
• March 1, 2014: GNU has 10 Graduate Schools, 12 colleges, 3 Divisions (5 majors) and 87 Departments, with a total of 3,252 new Students every year