Gyeongsang National University

Coordinates: 35°9′14.6″N 128°5′53.1″E / 35.154056°N 128.098083°E / 35.154056; 128.098083

Gyeongsang National University
경상대학교
Type National
Established Founded 1948
President Kwon, Soon-kee(권순기)
Location Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
Campus Gajwa Campus (Main Campus), Chilam Campus, Tongyeong Campus
Website

http://eng.gnu.ac.kr/

http://gnu.ac.kr/
Gyeongsang National University
Hangul 경상대학교
Hanja 慶尚大學校
Revised Romanization Gyeongsang Daehakkyo
McCune–Reischauer Kyŏngsang Taehakkyo

Gyeongsang National University (경상대학교) (GNU) 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 including arts, social science, natural science, engineering, agriculture and life science, management, veterinary, education, nursing, and medicine and eight graduate schools including medicine and public health, business administration, education, aerospace, industry etc. Other institutions with the university are the university library, the university museum, student center, university newspaper and 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 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, in 1968, accredited as national college and in 1972, renamed as Gyeongsang National College. In 1980, it was accredited as 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 so on 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] and many alumni in these fields are working as researchers and professionals in research institutions and universities around the world. In present, the university has made its highly competitive fields of study broad to mechanical and aerospace systems engineering and new nano-materials engineering. In addition, Gyeongsang National University has made achievements in humanities and in sociology, two fields which lay the foundation for human ethics. Beside this, Gyeongsang National University is proud to have the college of Education in where great middle school teachers are educated to take responsibility for education of Republic of Korea, the college of Veterinary Medicine in where international veterinarians are trained, and the College of Marine Science to pioneer the studies of the ocean in the twenty-first century. The university keeps moving on to provide advanced international education in Republic of Korea by successfully partnering in international campuses in Incheon[2] as well as Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zones.

The Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health at Gyeongsang National University is unique medical training and research institution in South Gyeongsang Province and plans are being made with Gyeongsang National University Hospital to open a specialized medical center in the city of Changwon as the second Gyeongsang National University hospital in 2013. Gyeongsang National University Hospital 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 provided health care service with quality for more than 25 years and 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.

Aerial view of the campus.

Overview of GNU's past and present

Campus

Gyeongsang National University has three campuses where two campuses are located in Jinju and one campus in Tongyeong. Gajwa campuse is located in Gajwa-dong, Jinju close to the junctions of Tongyeong–Daejeon Expressway and Namhae Expressway, Chilam campus is located in Chilam-dong right next to the Nam river, and Tongyeong campus is located in Inpyeong-dong, Tongyeong.

Aerial view of Gajwa campus.
Aerial view of Gajwa campus

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, the main library, the stadium, dormitories, 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 . The address is 63, Gajwa-gil 29beon-gil, Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, 660-701.

Aerial view of Chilam campus.
Aerial view of Chilam campus

Chilam Campus

The graduate school of medicine, which is one and only national graduate school of medicine in South Gyeongsang province, the college of nursing, the graduate school of public health, and the graduate school of food and drug are located in 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.

Aerial view of the campus.
Aerial view of Tongyeong campus

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㎡.

Academics

Gajwa Campus

Department of Korean and Korean Literature, Department of French and French Literature, Department of Japanese and Japanese Literature, Department of Chinese and Chinese Literature, Department of Ethnic Dance, Department of German and German Literature, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Russian and Russian Literature, Department of English and English Literature, Departement of Chinese Classics

Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Public Administration, Department of Economics, Department of Social Welfare, Department of Sociology

School of Life Science, School of Computer Science, Department of Mathematics, Department of Earth and Environment Science, Department of Chemistry, Department of Textiles, Department of Physics, Department of Food and Nutrition, Department of Information and Science, Department of Information and Statistics

Department of Management Information Systems, Department of Economics, Department of International Business, Department of Accounting

School of Mechnical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Nano and New Material Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronics, Department of Semiconductor, Department of Instrumentation and Control, Department of Architecture, Department of Architectural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

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 Engieering

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

Department of Veterinay, Department of Preveterinary Medicine

Chilam Campus

Department of Nursing

Tongyeong Campus

Department Marine Civil Engineering, Department of Marine Biology, Department of Mechanical System Engineering, Department of Marine Engineering, Department of Marine Environement 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

Graduate Schools of Professional Studies

Master's Programs

PhD Programs

Joint Masters and PhD Programs

School of Language Education and International Programs

GNU Affiliated Institutions

Aerial view of the campus.
A night at the dormitory

Research Institute

Humanities & Social Sciences

Life Sciences & Engineering

University Presidents

  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 – Present

Notable People, Faculty, and Alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Glow in the dark cat could help cut disease". the telegraph. 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
  2. ↑ 송도에 미국 미주리대 분교 추진 in Korean
  3. ↑ 경상대 생명과학분야 복수박사학위제 국내 최초 도입 in Korean
  4. ↑ 경상대학교-미국 미주리대학교 복수박사학위제 협정 체결…퍼듀대 이어 2번째 in Korean
  5. ↑ Miss Daegu crowned Miss Korea 2013

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