Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University

OlesHoncharDnipropetrovsk National University is one of the leading establishments of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were history and linguistics, law, medicine and physics and mathematics.

Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 20 faculties and nearly 1,300 professors, 850 of them PhDs. The university has about 22,000 Ukrainian students and offers 87 majors. It has about 3,000 international students from 20 countries.

It has strong ties with one of the largest world's rocket space centres, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau,^[1] and other major industrial and scientific organizations in the Donetsk-Pridneprovsk area with population of more than 15 million people. Being a big educational and research center, DNU provides training of all qualifications levels: Master’s degree, Specialist’s degree, Bachelor’s degree. It prepares researchers and university teachers at the post-graduate and doctor of science courses. One can obtain the second higher education.

OlesHoncharDnipropetrovsk National University boasts its enormous army of alumni. For the whole period of the university functioning about a hundred thousand specialists without whom one could hardly fancy any sphere of our life have been prepared. Among them there are statesmen, public figures, heads of enterprises and institutions of science and culture, schools, commercial enterprises; famous scientists, teachers, journalists.

According to the decision of the Intersectorial Accreditation Collegiums and to the order of the Ministry of Sciences and Education of Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk National University has been accredited as a higher institution of the 4-th level accreditation.

According to the UNESCO poll DNU takes the 6th place of all Ukrainian higher education institutes due to its academic and research indexes.

At present DNU has 63 agreements with higher education institutes and research centers from many countries of Europe, Asia, the USA, Canada. Almost since the beginning of TEMPUS Program’s activity in Ukraine the DNU has joined its work. The first project on reforming of economic was won in 1993. Since there the DNU has won 14 projects (including three more Tempus projects in 2009) for the terms from 1 till 3 years in different sectors of science and education such as economics, management, university managements, social informatics and international economics. Due to this indicator the DNU is a regional leader. The DNU’s University Library has 2,600,000 volumes and computer library rooms. DNU has enough computer rooms with high-speed fiberglass access to the Internet, so all visitors can be provided by computer working place. DNU library with several millions books is one of biggest in the region and can supply all educational needs of guests. Since 2007 DNU has been taking part in Erasmus Mundus Project “External Cooperation Window” which is closely corresponded to DNU's development plan. First, in the plan there is a special paragraph about development of close relations with EU universities, strengthening of exchange programmes. Second, the participation should contribute in realisation of the item of raising the level of professional skills of DNU teachers and improving the style of teaching. And, third, the project can give us a possibility of progeress in implementation of Bologna standarts, including ECTS, quality issurance, etc.

Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy ( DSMA , Dnepropetrovsk) - one of the oldest universities in Ukraine . Founded September 15, 1916 on the basis of Ekaterynoslavsky women's higher rates . Status Academy - 1920 ( returned in 1994 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 224 of April 20, 1994 ) .

In the structure of the Academy - 6 faculties ( three medical , dental , faculty of foreign students and faculty of postgraduate education ) , which enrolled more than 4.5 thousand students and medical students.

59 departments work 646 teachers, among them 98 doctors of sciences and 359 candidates of sciences. Just Academy employs over 1,100 employees .

42 clinical departments are located at the bases of 28 hospitals and used by more than 15 thousand beds . On clinical bases Academy organized 29 specialized centers .

Academy occupies an area of ​​85 hectares. Has 8 academic buildings with total area of ​​52,000 sqm , which posted 608 classrooms, offices and laboratories . In the area of ​​7 hostels 46000 sq.m. 2849 students and resident physicians cadets . The Academy has a sports complex , vivarium , a sanatorium , sports camps , library science , technology centers and two museums .

Faculties and specialties

    First medical ( "Medicine" )
    Second medical ( "Pediatrics " and " Medical-preventive work ")
    Third Medical ( "Medicine" , "Clinical Pharmacy" , "Nursing" )
    Dental ( "Dentistry" )
    Faculty of Postgraduate Studies ( postgraduate training at the faculty is over 26 specialties , in terms of internship - to 29 specialties , clinical internship - in 34 specialties )
    1 International Faculty ( "Medicine" , "Pediatrics ", " Medical-preventive work ", " Dental ")
    2 International Faculty ( "Medicine" , "Pediatrics ", " Medical-preventive work ", " Dental ")