That's 500 acres of land! A new "medical university" is about to settle down, netizens
In November 2023, Gannan Medical College successfully changed its name to Gannan Medical University, which made many Gannan students and professors proud.
Soon after the name change, the school got the latest news that the construction of the Longnan campus was in full swing.
It is reported that Longnan City, Jiangxi Province, will make every effort to do a good job in service guarantee during the Spring Festival to ensure that major projects do not stop, key enterprises do not stop production, and production is in full swing. In order to ensure that the Longnan Campus of Gannan Medical University was opened on time, the builders of the new campus are sticking to the front line of construction with full enthusiasm and setting off a boom.
The Longnan Campus of Gannan Medical University is located in Longnan County, covering an area of 500 acres, with a total construction area of 150,000 square meters and a total investment of about 1.5 billion yuan, which can enroll more than 1,000 new students every year, and is expected to meet the scale of 4,000 students after completion.
In the eyes of many netizens, the construction of the Longnan Campus of Gannan Medical University can, on the one hand, enhance the school's school-running strength and expand the scale of school-running; On the other hand, it can also bring more substantial help to the school's competition work. It is not easy to go from junior college to university, so that more people feel"Medical University"It's the hardest thing to live up to.
Gannan Medical University is a provincial medical college in Jiangxi Province, formerly known as Ganxian Senior Midwifery Vocational School in Jiangxi Province, founded in 1941 and has a history of 83 years.
Over the years, the school has experienced an important stage of development of Ganxian Senior Medical Vocational School in Jiangxi Province, upgraded to a technical secondary school in 1958 and renamed Gannan Medical College, and successfully upgraded to an undergraduate degree in 1988 and renamed Gannan Medical College.
Historically, Gannan Medical University is an old medical school, although the starting point of development is not very high, and the development speed is not fast enough (it only obtained a master's degree in 2013), but every step of the school has been solid.
Today, Gannan Medical University has developed into a first-level discipline with 4 master's degree authorizations in clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy, and biomedical engineering, and 6 master's degree authorization points; It is a comprehensive medical college with 2 national characteristic majors of clinical medicine and anesthesiology, and 2 national first-class disciplines of clinical medicine and nursing.
In the 2023 Ranking of Soft Science Universities, Gannan Medical University is ranked 60th among medical schools in China, a significant improvement from the rankings in 2021 and 2022.
Gannan Medical College and the same renamed medical universities, such as Xinxiang Medical College, Guilin Medical College, Weifang Medical College, etc., are not the best in terms of strength. The school was upgraded to:"University", successfully saved"Gannan"This golden signboard, the strength of Gannan Medical University continues to demonstrate.
For Jiangxi's colleges and universities, it is even more embarrassing. Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces are rich in educational resources, but Jiangxi is the only one called"Educational depressions"。In recent years, Jiangxi Province has continuously increased its investment in higher education, and some provincial universities have also made varying degrees of progress.
Jiangxi Province currently lacks several medical colleges and universities, a total of only 7, of which 3 are undergraduate colleges, namely Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Gannan Medical University, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine College of Science and Technology and Gannan Medical University is the only independent ordinary undergraduate medical colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province, with heavy responsibilities and a long way to go.
The construction of the Longnan Campus of Gannan Medical University will comprehensively improve the school's operating conditions, and the school is about to usher in the first doctoral program in history.