Gyeongsang National University

Overview

Gyeongsang National University

Gyeongsang National University (GNU) is a national university situated in Jinju, South Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea. Established in 1948 as Jinju Provincial Agricultural College, GNU is one of the ten flagship universities directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea. It ranks highly in the fields of applied life science, biochemistry, and agricultural science. It holds a good reputation as one of the leading academic institutions in the country and is a consistent top-ranking university worldwide.

Gyeongsang National University Key Statistics

GNU has 13 colleges with 78 departments and divisions. Some of these major academic units include the College of Humanities, College of Social Sciences, College of Natural Science, College of Business Administration, and the College of Engineering. It also has eight graduate schools with 110 departments and four divisions. It offers about 68 master’s degree programs and three doctorate degree programs across schools. These major graduate schools include Academics, Business, Education, Industry, Public Administration, Specialized Graduate School for Aerospace Engineering, Medicine, and Public Health.

The university has more than 25,000 students, composed of around 20,000 undergraduates and over 4,000 postgraduates. About 5% of the student population are international students from different countries worldwide. It houses about 1,600 academic staff with around 800 full-time faculty and 361 administrative staff. There are 635 professors/associate professors and 406 part-time lecturers.

The other Gyeongsang National University key statistics is its six-story, full-service library system. It is divided into six sections that hold more than 1.35 million collections of books and other references. These sections include the multimedia room, social science and thesis dissertation, and humanities room.

Gyeongsang National University Research

Gyeongsang National University has 19 research institutes and two centers. These include the Educational Research Institute, Engineering Research Institute, and Research Center for Aircraft Parts Technology. It continues to strengthen its partnerships and collaboration with local businesses in its research and development projects like with Jinju & Sacheon for the Aviation Industry Complex and with Milyang for the Nano Convergence Materials Industry Complex.

The university’s top three research fields are biology, medicine, and chemistry. Its researchers have published in publications like Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Journal of Power Sources. Researchers at Gyeongsang National University had been invited to attend/present papers at prestigious conferences like the Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Joint International Conference on Information Sciences, and the Global Communications Conference.

The most cited research publication of Gyeongsang National University is Kim et al.’s (2007) “Antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles," published in Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine. This scholarly output received a total of 4,838 citations.

The second most cited scholarly output is Schaufeli et al.’s (2002) "Burnout and Engagement in University Students: A Cross-National Study." This was published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and has received 3,253 citations.

In addition, GNU's third most cited publication is by Ahn et al. (2012). Entitled "Observation of reactor electron antineutrinos disappearance in the RENO experiment," it was published in Physical Review Letters and has generated 2,367 citations.