Gyeongsang National University


Gyeongsang National University is a national university governed under the ministry of education of Republic of Korea government and located in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province and represents the South Gyeongsang Province of South Korea as one of 10 Flagship Korean National Universities along with Cheju National University, Chonbuk National University, Chonnam National University, Chungnam National University, Chungbuk National University, Kangwon National University, Kyungpook National University, Pusan National University, and Seoul National University.
Gyoengsang 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 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.
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 open 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

Gyeongsang National University has four campuses. Two campuses are located in Jinju, one campus in Tongyeong, and one campus in Changwon. Gajwa campus is located in Gajwa-dong, Jinju close to the junction of Tongyeong–Daejeon Expressway and Namhae Expressway, Chilam campus is located in Chilam-dong right next to Nam River, Tongyeong campus is located in Inpyeong-dong, Tongyeong, and Changwon campus is located in Uichang-gu, Changwon.

Gajwa Campus

Gajwa campus is the main campus of Gyeongsang national university. Most buildings and facilities of the university including the university headquarter, the student center, and buildings for the colleges of Arts, Social Science, Law, Education, Business Administration, Natural Science, Agriculture and Life Science, Engineering, Veterinary, and graduate schools are located in the campus. The area of Gajwa campus is more than 1,300,000㎡, and buildings numbered are more than sixty.

Chilam Campus

The gyeongsang national university hospital, unique facility for training of medical students and nurses, are also located in the campus. The area of the campus is 103,000㎡, and buildings such as dormitory, student center, and the medical library, are located.

Tongyeong Campus

The college of Marine Science is located in Inpyeong-dong, Tongyoung. The campus is home of ten departments for marine science in the college and has fifteen buildings including the college headquarter, education and research center, gym, library, student center, and female dormitory. The area of the campus is 147,000㎡.

Changwon Campus

Changwon Campus is Industry-University Convergence campus and founded in 2017. Department of Mechanical Convergence Engineering is the only department that is located in Changwon Campus. The Department of Mechanical Convergence Engineering, a leading university in the 4th industry, will grow into a cradle of global industrial technologies and human resources such as smart factory, IoT, and artificial intelligence based on the machinery industry.

Academics

School of Agriculture and Life Science : Agriculture, Animal Life Science, Food Engineering, Plant Science, Applied Biology and Environmental, Animal Biology, Environmental and Life Chemistry, School of Environmental and Forest Science:,
Department of Agricultural Economics,
Department of Bioindustrial Mechanical Engineering
Department of Regional Environment Engineering
Department of Law
Department of Education, Department of History Education, Department of Physics Education, Department of Mathematics Education, Department of Physical Education, Department of Ethics Education, Department of Geology Education, Department of Chemistry Education, Department of Computer Education, Department of Korean Language Education, Department of English Education, Department of Biology Education, Department of Art Education, Department of Sociology Education, Department of Japanese Language Education, Department of Home Education, Department of Music Education - The Department of Computer Education and the Department of Home Education are gone.
Department of Veterinay, Department of Preveterinary Medicine

Chilam Campus

Department of Nursing
Department Marine Civil Engineering, Department of Marine Biology, Department of Mechanical System Engineering, Department of Marine Engineering, Department of Marine Environment Engineering, Department of Marine Food Engineering, Department of Energy Mechanical Engieering, Department of Marine Manangement, Department of Marine Police System, Department of Information and Communication Engineering

Changwon Campus

Department of Mechanical Convergence Engineering

Graduate Schools of Professional Studies

Humanities & Social Sciences

  1. Dr. Hyun-cheon Shin, March 1980 - 1987
  2. Dr. Jeong-han Lee, March 1987 – 1991
  3. Dr. Young-ho Bin, March 1991 – 1999
  4. Dr. Choong-saeng Park, March 1999 – 2003
  5. Dr. Moo-je Cho, December 2003 - 2007
  6. Dr. Woo-song Ha, December 2007 - 2011
  7. Dr. Soon-kee Kwon, December 2011 – 2016
  8. Dr. Sang-Kyoung Lee, June 2016 – Present

    Notable People, Faculty, and Alumni