Colleges & Departments

The College of Veterinary Medicine was separated as an independent institute from the College of the Applied Life Sciences in 2008. In September 2014, the new building with four floors and one basement level was completed in its current location with a gross area of 5,578㎡. It is equipped with the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Training Ranch in Yongang, Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Laboratory Animal Center, and Jeju Wildlife Rescue Center.

The veterinary science is extended to a wide range of fields, including clinical veterinary medicine, livestock hygiene, pet diseases, wild animal diseases, water-bourne animal diseases, communicable diseases, and food and environmental hygiene. It is also a future-oriented academic sphere that are closely related to the cutting-edge bioindustries that involve studies on new substances, artificial organs, transformal animals, interspecies organ transplants, stem cells, and tumors.

Introduction

The Jeju National University College of Veterinary Medicine was established in 2008. As of today (2017), the 4-story+basement building, 5,600 square meters, houses the college. Its teaching, research and clinical service facilities include an animal hospital, experimental ranch, and laboratories equipped with the state-of-the-art instruments and equipment. A dedicated animal hospital building will be completed in 2017. The College of Veterinary Medicine consists of the Departments of Pre-Veterinary Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The former provides a 2-year curriculum to prepare the students in basic sciences and liberal education subjects for the veterinary medicine program.

Aims

The Department of Pre-Veterinary Medicine aims at cultivating the veterinary students with the sound background in basic sciences having positive and enthusiastic attitude in pursuing their careers in veterinary medicine. The department provides the pre-veterinary majors curriculum with the superior faculty and quality educational environment for nurturing the future-oriented individuals. To prepare the students to be veterinary medicine experts with the ability to master the specialty subjects covering a variety of animals and nurture them to be leaders in medical and public health and other relevant life science careers capable of theoretical and laboratory undertakings. The pre-veterinary program aims to educate the well-rounded, strong basic science-trained students.

Careers

Generally, the pre-vet majors advance to the Department of Veterinary Medicine to be professional veterinarians.

History

1952. 05.27 : Established Jeju Junior College (Korean Language, English, Law and Animal Husbandry Majors)
1952. 08.08 : Held opening ceremony held (classes open ~ 8. 9)
1955. 04.06 : Authorized for 4-year provincial college/ the Department of Animal Husbandry restructured as the Department of Veterinary Medicine
1962. 03.01 : Closed the Department of Veterinary Medicine
1963. 12.16 : Restored the Department of Veterinary Medicine
1964. 03.01 : Opened the Faculty of Agriculture Animal Hospital
1973. 12.29 : Closed the Department of Veterinary Medicine
1988. 10.29 : Opened the Department of Veterinary Medicine (admitted 40)
1993. 09.04 : Established M.S. degree program, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate College
1995. 10.18 : Instituted Ph.D. degree program, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Graduate College
1997. 11.05 : Changed affiliation from the College of Agriculture to the College of Natural Science, Department of Pre-Veterinary Medicine
2008. 03.01 : Established the College of Veterinary Medicine
2008. 04.07 : Signed MOU with Animal Products Risk Assessment Standards
2008. 04.23 : Signed MOU with Korean Racing Association
2008. 04.07 : Signed MOU with Bodeulkyeol Ranch
2009. 03.01 : Opened Veterinary Medicine Institute
2010. 08.10 : Changed the admission unit:
Department of Pre-Veterinary Medicine, College of Natural Science ~ 40 → College of Veterinary Medicine ~ admittance 40
2010. 08.09 : Opened Laboratory Animal Center
2012. 04.18 : Signed MOU with Rural Development Administration National Academy of Animal Science Global Warming Animal Testing Laboratory
2012. 09.27 : Ground breaking ceremony held for the College of Veterinary Medicine
2012. 10.18 : Signed MOU with Hanwha Aquaplanet Jeju, Genome Research Foundation, and Korea Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology
2012. 12.25 : Signed MOU with Jeju Wild Animal Rescue Center
2013. 06.17 : Signed MOU with National Park Management Corporation
2014. 04.09 : Signed MOU with Jeju Veterinarians Association
2014. 07.18 : Signed MOU with Mongolian National University
2014. 10.15 : Opening ceremony held for the College of Veterinary Medicine