Regarding education, training of native cadres, as the most important of all national affairs that has a bearing on the destiny of the country and nation, President
Thus, in November 1945, The Association for Supporting Building University was organized involving democratic figures from all walks of life and those concerned with education, and in May 1946 a state measure was taken to organize the preparatory committee of founding university.
The President had letters of invitation in his name sent to teachers and scholars across the country to relieve the lack of teachers. He also had a correct criterion for selecting students and a preparatory course set so that the university could become a people's university where children of revolutionary martyrs and sons and daughters of the working people could study to the full.
And he saw to it that good big buildings in Pyongyang were used as lecture halls, dormitories and dining halls of the university.
Reflecting our people's unanimous desire, the first university of new Korea was named after President
At the time of its founding the university was composed of seven faculties, 24 departments and 30 classes, including Faculty of Literature, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Agronomy, Faculty of Medical Science and Faculty of Railway Engineering.
Sixty-eight excellent scholars, including To Sang Rok, Pak Si Hyong, Kim Su Gyong, Kim Kwang Jin, Kim Sok Hyong, Won Hong Gu, Sin Ku Hyon, Kye Ung Sang and Im Rok Jae, were the first lecturers of the university and they taught more than 1 500 students.
The students have been provided with new school uniforms since December 1946, and since September 1947 they have been awarded scholarships without any worry about university fees.
The design of the school uniform and the cap-badge were decided on and completed by the President.
Lecturers of the university also received clothing and other supplies every year, and in June 1949 houses for the lecturers were built near the university.
By 1948 the educational and scientific foundations of
In July 1948 Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Transport Engineering were separated from
And the institute was opened in May 1947, an evening college in February 1948 and a correspondence teacher training college in September 1948, thus laying a foundation for training more native cadres.
In the new school year of 1949, the number of faculties increased to 10, lecturers to more than 170, and students to more than 3200.
In September 1948 Kye Ung Sang and Won Hong Gu got academic degrees and titles for the first time at
On October 10, Juche 37 (1948) an inauguration ceremony of the new school building of
The President personally attended the 1st graduation ceremony and congratulated the graduates.
On June 25, 1950, when the Fatherland Liberation War broke out, many students, lecturers and postgraduates of the university left the campus and rushed to the front.
Amid the flames of the war the 2nd graduation ceremony was held on June 30, 1950, and 271 students graduated.
Under the wise leadership of President
With a correct foresight of the victory in the war, the President took a crucial step to recall the students fighting on the front to their university in June, Juche 40 (1951) and again in January, Juche 41 (1952). So more than 400 students returned to their school work and from July 1951 a special preparatory course of the university was opened and in November that year university teaching was resumed.
In April, Juche 41 (1952), President
On December 28, 1952, the 3rd graduation ceremony of
After the war
In October 1956, on the occasion of the 10th founding anniversary of the university, a new university graduation badge and student badge were decided on and the gathering of the first-term graduates was held.
In the postwar period, the teaching staff and students of
During this period, a vigorous struggle was waged to thoroughly establish Juche and overcome flunkeyism and dogmatism in the university education. In addition, the nuclear physics department and other departments were newly created and an optical experimental apparatus factory went into operation, thus further consolidating the material foundation of the university.
Education for foreign students began at
Chairman
On September 1, Juche 49 (1960) when he entered
He always gave deep, original and scientific clarification to the important and urgent problems facing the Korean revolution and the world revolution including politics, economy, military affairs, philosophy, history, art and literature and education with his extraordinary ideological and theoretical wisdom and scientific insight. So not only students but also lecturers looked up to him as a great teacher and wanted to be taught by him.
During his university days Chairman
The scientific papers in various fields, including "On Re-examining the Issue of the Unification of the Three Kingdoms", "On the Characteristics of Modern Imperialism and its Aggressive Nature", "The Validity of Our Party's Policy of Developing the Local Economy" and a graduation thesis "The Status and Role of the County in Socialist Construction" written by Chairman
While he was studying at
From the 1960s to the early 2010s,
In September Juche 57 (1968) a revolutionary museum was built at the main building of the university with the statue of President
As several faculties such as Faculty of Physics, Faculty of Mathematical Mechanics, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Geology, Faculty of Automation, Faculty of Energy Science and other faculties were independently separated or newly established, the university was expanded and developed with more comprehensive and broad academic structure.
In the early 1980s
The university conducted a brisk international academic exchange with several universities including Far East Federal University (Russia), Yanbian University (China), Osaka Economics and Law School (Japan), and so on. The university also conducted book exchange with a lot of universities including Moscow National University (Russia), Beijing University (China), Berlin Humboldt University (Germany), Panama University (Panama), San Marco University (Peru).
Under the meticulous guidance and care of President
In 1989 a modern gymnasium was built ahead of the 13th world students and youth festival, and in the mid-1990s the site of the university was expanded and a new dormitory was built on the occasion of its 50th founding anniversary.
Chairman
The university built a large-scale revolutionary monument in 2001.
From the end of the 1990s to 2010, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Automation and Faculty of Korean Language and Literature were renamed Law College, Computer Science College and Literature College, respectively, and Finance College, Faculty of Electronics and Automation, Faculty of Mechanics and Faculty of Materials Science was newly created to further expand the size and educational content of the university. Institute of Social Sciences and Institute of Natural Sciences were also established in 2001 for the purpose of training world-famous scholars.
In October 2019, several colleges were turned into faculty － Law College into Faculty of Law, Literature College into Faculty of Korean Language and Literature, Finance College into Faculty of Finance, Information Science College into Faculty of Information Science, Forest Science College into Faculty of Forest Science, Distance Education College into Faculty of Distance Education.
Chairman
In Juche 98 (2009), Chairman
And he visited the university four times from March Juche 98 (2009) to April Juche 99 (2010) and went round the Swimming Complex, E-Library and Education and Science Exhibition.
The respected Comrade
In May 2010, Pyongyang University of Medicine, Kye Ung Sang Sariwon University of Agriculture and Pyongyang University of Agriculture were affiliated with
Entering the new era of the Juche revolution,
The respected Comrade
He read a letter from teachers and researchers of
On October 1, Juche 102 (2013), the unveiling ceremony of the statue of the Chairman
The respected Comrade
On September 27, Juche 105 (2016), the respected Comrade
True to the instructions of Chairman
And again in Juche 106 (2017) he provided lecturers and researchers of the university with more than 1 700 flats in newly-built Ryomyong Street.
In the 2010s, Building No. 3, Building No. 4, Building for Faculty of Chemistry, new students' dormitories and dining halls were built and the modernization of Building No. 2, formerly-built dormitories and Publishing House was accelerated to change their appearance.
The education system including continuous education, distance education and reeducation was further completed and the ranks of world-class scholars increased, thus strengthening the forces of science and education.
Many subjects have been newly developed and great progress has been made in the work to improve the content of education and teaching methods.
Amid the vigorous struggle to forcefully propel the building of a powerful socialist country with successful research results in cutting-edge science as demanded by the new era of the Juche revolution, the research projects conducive to the development of the country and nation and scientific progress of mankind are being successfully carried out.
Lecturers and researchers of
The university is conducting a brisk international academic exchange, too.
The university organizes international academic seminars by discipline or of a comprehensive nature on an annual basis and delegations of scholars of
Academic exchange agreements have been signed with 16 universities and scientific research institutes in five countries, so that invited lecturers and experts are being dispatched, student assistants and foreign students are being exchanged, and international joint research is being revitalized.
