Since 1952, Chungnam National University has been striving to become one of the top universities in the nation and world. Today, over 190,000 alumni have been taking an active role in serving and contributing to reach this endeavor.
1950 ~ 1959
- 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.
1960 ~ 1969
- March 1, 1962
- Chungchong National University is established, unifying Chungnam Provincial University with Chungbuk Provincial University.
- March 1, 1963
- Chungnam National University is reorganized as a separate institution from Chungbuk University.
- March 13, 1964
- College of Law & Business Administration is established on November 30, 1967 College of Medicine is established.
1970 ~ 1979
- 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.
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- 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.
1980 ~ 1989
- 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.
- College of Agriculture is moved to the Daedeok campus.
- 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 Boun 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.
1990 ~ 1999
- March 1, 1990
- College of Sciences and Graduate School of Industry is established.
- March 1, 1991
- College of Veterinary Medicine is established.
- August 20, 1994
- Chungnam National University is selected as a State Policy University.
- February 28, 1995
- CNU is evaluated as a Superior University in the University Accreditation Assessment.
- October 12, 1996
- CNU is selected as a Superior University in the Educational Revolution Assessment.
- November 10, 1997
- CNU is selected as an Exclusive College in Basic Sciences.
- February 12, 1998
- CNU is selected as a Superior University for the Cyber University Project.
- March 15, 1999
- The Lifelong Education Center is opened.
- August 31, 1999
- CNU is selected as a Host School for Brain Korea 21.
2000 ~ 2010
- 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.
- School of Bioscience Biotechnology is established.
- 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.
- The National Defense Institute is established.
- 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 1, 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.
- Law School, Graduate School of Medicine, and Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology 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.
- November 25, 2011
- Education Center for Creative Future Engineers is established.
- January 21, 2012
- Inauguration of the 17th President, Sang-Chul Jung.
- March 28, 2012
- CNU is designated as Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation(LINC).
- April 13, 2012
- CNU held the Second Rank in a Nationwide Reinforcement Projectr of Educational Capacity.
- May 1, 2012
- CNU is designated as Expertise Cultivating Project in Energy Recovery from Waste.
- March 2013
- Graduate School of National Public Policy is established.
- September 2013
- CNU is chosen for Brain Korea 21(BK 21).
- November 25, 2013
- Strategic planning department is established.
- March 1, 2014
- Faculty of Military Studies is established.
- May 2014
- CNU is chosen for Leaders in INdustry-university Cooperation(LINC, Phase 2), Advancement of College Education(ACE), and University for Creative Korea(CK).
- June 30, 2015
- Safety Management Headquarters is established.
- July 21, 2015
- CNU is chosen for Supporting High School Education Project.
- July 23, 2015
- Physical Promotion Program Management Committee is established.
- November 20, 2015
- CNU is chosen for POINT.
- February 2016
- Inauguration of the 18th President, Deog-Seong Oh.
- May 2, 2017
- Selected for ‘Innovation and Transformation of National Universities’ Program
- August 16, 2018
- Selected for ‘Innovation and Transformation of Universities Pilot’ Program in 2018
- March 21, 2019
- Selected for ‘Innovation and Transformation of Universities’ Program in 2019
- July 23, 2019
- Selected for ‘Community Leading University Promotion’ Program
2020 ~
- February 28, 2020
- Inauguration of Jin-Sook Lee, the 19th president of Chungnam National University
- November 17, 2020
- Selected for ‘Remote Education Project for Regional Graduate Schools’
- May 6, 2021
- Selected for ‘Local Government-university Cooperation for Communal Innovation’ Program