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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 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〔(송도에 미국 미주리대 분교 추진 in Korean )〕 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. ==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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gyeongsang National University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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