Jeonbuk National University

Overview

Jeonbuk National University

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) is a national research university located in Jeonju, South Korea. It was established in 1947 as Provincial Iri Agricultural College before merging with Jeonju Myeongnyun College and Gunsan College in 1951 to form Chonbuk National University. The university adopted its current name in 2019 and is recognized as among the best educational institutions in the country, with contributions to the fields of medicine, chemistry, and materials science.

Jeonbuk National University Key Statistics

JBNU is composed of 17 colleges and 14 graduate schools, including the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Human Ecology, College of Veterinary Medicine, and the Global Frontier College. The university offers a wide variety of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs.

Jeonbuk National University has approximately 32,000 students and employs 2,400 professors. The university has a main campus in Jeonju, a specialized campus in Iksan, and the Gochang and Saemangeum campuses. These locations offer facilities such as dormitories, restaurants and shops, health clinics, and a sports center.

Other Jeonbuk National University key statistics include its libraries, containing 1.6 million books and ebooks as well as over 10,000 academic publications. There is also the Jeonbuk University Museum with over 50,000 ancient materials, documents, and artifacts.

Jeonbuk National University Research

Research at JBNU houses world-class research infrastructures manned by well-trained and experienced researchers. The university receives KRW 120-130 billion in government research support every year.

The top fields of Jeonbuk National University research are materials science, medicine, and chemistry. Its researchers have attended and presented at conferences, such as the Joint International Conference on Information Sciences, International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, and the European Microwave Conference.

The most cited Jeonbuk National University research publication is Klionsky et al.’s (2021) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition),” published in Autophagy with close to 8,100 citations to date. Its other most cited works are Klionsky et al.’s (2012) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy” featured in Autophagy and has more than 8,000 citations and Klionsky et al.’s (2016) “Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition),” which appeared in Autophagy and has over 7,700 citations so far.

JBNU has seven global research centers, including the High-Enthalpy Plasma Research Center, which conducts research on high-enthalpy plasma technologies essential to the future of automotive, energy, and aerospace industries, and the Korea Zoonosis Research Institute, which is a comprehensive research institute for infectious diseases

It also houses the LED Agri-Bio Fusion Technology Research Center, which presents new alternatives for the agri-bio industry, and the LANL-CBNU Engineering Institute Korea, the first Asian branch of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.

There are also the Intangible Cultural Heritage Institute, which has an unrivaled position in the field of intangible cultural assets in the nation, the Korean Institute of Science, Technology, and Civilization, and the Center for Industrialization of Agricultural and Livestock Microorganisms.