Since 1952, Chungnam National University has been striving to become one of the top universities in the nation and world. Today, over 170,000 alumni have been taking an active role in serving and contributing to reach this endeavor.
- May 25, 1952
- Chungnam Provincial University is established with three colleges: Liberal Arts Sciences, Agriculture, and Engineering.
- May 25, 1953
- Chungnam National University celebrates its first anniversary.
- April 4, 1957
- The Graduate School is established.
- July 1, 1970
- Administration Building, Graduate School, College of Economics &Management, and College of Law is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- July 1, 1972
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
College of Engineering Education reorganized into Division of Engineering Education and General Engineering Division.
- March 10, 1975
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- March 1, 1977
- Graduate School of Education is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- August 10, 1978
- University Hospital is built and opened.
- August 10, 1979
- College of Sciences is divided into the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Home Economics.
- December 1, 1979
- College of Fine Arts and Music is established.
- July 29, 1981
- Administration Building, Graduate School, College of Economics &Management, and College of Law are moved to the Daedeok Campus.
- March 1, 1982
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
College of Engineering Education is reorganized into the Division of Engineering.Education and the General Engineering Division.
- December 30, 1982
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- February 10, 1984
- Graduate School of Education is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- October 14, 1984
- University Hospital is built and opened.
- December 31, 1985
- College of Medicine is moved to the Bowun campus.
- March 1, 1987
- College of Sciences is divided into the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Home Economics.
- March 1, 1988
- College of Fine Arts and Music is established.
- March 1, 1989
- Graduate School of Public Health is established.
- March 1, 2000
- Patent Law School is established.
- September 1, 2001
- College of Agriculture is reorganized as the College of Agriculture and Life Science.
- March 1, 2002
- Graduate School of Peace &Security is established.
- October 15, 2003
- CNU is selected as a Superior University in National Universities’ Development Project.
- March 1, 2004
- School of Bioscience Biotechnology is established.College of Liberal Arts is reorganized as the College of Humanities.
- March 30, 2005
- National Cancer Center at Chungnam National University is established.
- June 31, 2005
- CNU is funded by the NURI project 2005.
- September 28, 2005
- CNU is chosen as a leading university in structural reform.
- April 1, 2006
- The Center for Teaching &Learning is established.
- April 3, 2006
- The Office of International Affairs is relocated and opened.
- April 26, 2006
- Chosen for fifteen projects including BK21 in 2006.
- May 18, 2006
- Chosen as NURI in 2006.
- August 22, 2006
- Youngdong Academic Forest of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences opened.
- December 7, 2006
- The National Defense Institute is established.The Software Research Center is changed into the Software Institute.
- January 1, 2007
- CNU Faculty Council is established.
- May 2, 2007
- CNU is selected as an excellent library for the Contribution to the Joint Application of Academic Information.
- May 21, 2007
- CNU is selected as an E-learning Support Center (Daejeon &Chungnam area).
- July 19, 2007
- Ji-Hwan Kim is appointed Acting President.
- January 21, 2008
- Inauguration of the 16th President, Yong-Ho Song.
- February 4, 2008
- CNU is designated as one of the universities authorized to establish the Law School.
- March 3, 2009
- Law School, Graduate School of Medicine, and Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology are established / College of Education, College of Nursing, Faculty of Liberal Arts and College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology are established.
- June 12, 2009
- CNU is designated as national 5+2 supra economic region leading industry brain training project
- March 1, 2010
- Graduate school of drug development & discovery, graduate school of green energy technology, educational development institute are established.
- September 14, 2011
- Applied measurement evaluation center is established.
- November 25, 2011
- Education center for creative future engineers is established.
- January 21, 2012
- Inauguration of the 17th president, Jung, Sang-Chul
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