Motto Docendo discimus Established 1918 Affiliations IAU Founded 1918 Rector Mykola Polyakov | Type National university Administrative staff -- Phone +380 56 374 9822 Number of students 20,000 | |
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Location Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Address Haharina Ave, 72, Dnipropetrovs'k, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, 49000 Notable alumni Oles Honchar, Yulia Tymoshenko, Mykola Polyakov, Leonid Kuchma, Volodymyr Horbulin Similar Dnipropetrovsk National University, National Mining University, Alfred Nobel University, National Metallurgical Academy, Donetsk National University | ||
Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an 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.
Contents
- Oles honchar dnipropetrovsk national university top 16 facts
- History
- Faculty and staff
- Campuses
- Structure
- Faculties of the university
- Student life
- Notable alumni
- Awards and reputation
- International contacts
- References
Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 20 faculties and 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, and other 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 at 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. Second higher education can be obtained.
According to a 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.
DNU has 63 agreements with higher education institutes and research centers from many countries of Europe, Asia, the USA, Canada. DNU has joined the work of the TEMPUS Program in Ukraine. The first project on reforming the economy was won in 1993. Since then DNU has won 14 projects (including three more Tempus projects in 2009) for terms of 1 to 3 years in sectors of science and education such as economics, management, university managements, social informatics and international economics.
The library has 2,600,000 volumes and computer library rooms.
Since 2007 DNU has been taking part in the Erasmus Mundus Project “External Cooperation Window”. In the plan there is a paragraph about development of close relations with EU universities, and strengthening of exchange programmes. Participation should raising the skills of DNU teachers and improving the style of teaching. The project can give the possibility of progress in implementation of Bologna standards, including ECTS and quality assurance.
Oles honchar dnipropetrovsk national university top 16 facts
History
Ekaterynoslavsky University (now Dnepropetrovsk National University of Oles Gonchar) was founded during the Ukrainian Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky state in 1918. In 1920 Ekaterynoslavsky University was transformed into Ekaterynoslavsky (later in Dnipropetrovsk) Institute of Education, which operated until 1933.
In 1933 Dnepropetrovsk State University was restored, however the revival of the university coincided with the intensification of Stalin's totalitarian regime, which led to mass arrests in a university setting, and irreparable losses of personnel. During World War II some faculty and students went to defend their homeland from the Nazi invaders; others approached Victory Day, working in the evacuation.
In September 2000 Dnepropetrovsk State University acquired the status of a national institution.
Faculty and staff
DNU rector Polyakov Mykola Viktorovych, doctor of physical-mathematical sciences, professor, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian higher institute of learning, born in 1946, graduated from the mechanical-mathematical faculty of Dnipropetrovsk State University in 1971. He worked as dean of mechanical-mathematical faculty from 1989, and as pro-rector of educational work from 1996. He is rector from November 1998. He is rewarded with orders “For merit” of all three degrees.
DNU has scientific schools in mathematics, mechanics, radiophysics and electronics, rocketry, neurocybernetic, biotechnology, organic chemistry, history of Ukraine, historiography and history of Ukraine, archeology, German, literature and linguistics.
Campuses
The university has 17 teaching and laboratory buildings ("Main Building» № 1, which is located at Dnepropetrovsk, Gagarin, 72), seven dormitories for students at 3,500 seats, sports facilities and recreation (Sports Palace with a swimming pool, water station, shooting, hockey playground, outdoor stadium, dispensary, sports camp), the Palace of students (with an assembly hall with 500 seats and a small hall for 120 seats), library with about 2,000,000 copies.
Structure
The university comprises four higher education institutions of the first and second level of accreditation, 16 faculties, 46 research laboratories, three research institutes (Biology, Geography, Power Engineering) the Faculty of Distance and Part-time Education, the Faculty of Continuous Education, the Faculty of Postgraduate Education, the Faculty of Pre-university Preparation, Regional Center of Continuous Education “Prydniprovye” including eight schools, one lyceum and the one gymnasium.
Faculties of the university
Student life
The task of the Council of the faculty students is to protect the rights and responsibilities of students, and to improve student life.
The teachers and scientists of the faculty created a Regional center of the Ukrainian language history and development, where students’ scientific association “Philologist” functions. An annual collection of students’ scientific publications “The young people are eager to comprehend the word” was founded.
A French speaking students’ theatre and speaking club was founded at the Roman philology chair in 1995.
The Ukrainian and foreign philology and art-criticism faculty run first-year student, author’s song contests, New Year carnivals “Masks disappear in midnight”, CFI – the contests among faculties, “Miss faculty” contests and others. The Council of the students organizes visits to children’s homes with festival concerts and gifts during some years.
The meeting with creators became traditional at the faculty: Irena Rozdobud’ko, Larisa Denysenko, Lesia Stepovychka, brothers Kapranov, Liubko Deresh, Yurii Andrushevych, Serhii Zhadan and others.
The students of the faculty conducted an action “Do not be indifferent, find out more about AIDS”.
Students take a part in the cultural life of the university: national circus studio “Raiduha”, national dance ensembles “Veselka”, theater studio “Hravtsi”. An ensemble of guitar players is organized at the faculty. The theatre group is “Vidlunnia”, who have put on plays “Roksolana”, “Marusia Churai”, “Evening at the farmstead FUPandAC” and other. The young people’s chamber choir is “Yunist”. Second-year students of the English philology chair organized a studio of a modern dance “Sweets”, and first-year students organized a show-ballet “Dance sensation”.
A club of talented young people “Crocus” functions at the faculty. Any person can become its member if they write poetry or prose.
Students take an active part in sport life of the university. A student became a prize-winner of Dnipropetrovs’k region in track and field athletics, and another became a champion of Ukraine in water polo. Students of the faculty became the members of the combined team in badminton, swimming, track and field athletics, and weight-lifting sport.
Notable alumni
Awards and reputation
Dnipropetrovsk National University took eighth place in the integrated ranking universities of Ukraine. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, the most authoritative rankings that are referenced by experts and journalists, are national rankings UNESCO "Top-200 Ukraine", "Compass" and the international rating "Vebometryks."
International contacts
The faculty cooperates with Ukrainian and foreign higher educational establishments such as:
Students have periods of probation in higher educational establishments of:
A General and Russian Linguistics Chair takes part in an international program of generation of new textbooks on Russian language and literature for CIS countries” in collaboration with the philological faculty of Saint-Petersburg State University; the chair also cooperates with the general linguistics chair of Sievierodvins’kyi branch of HOU VPO “Pomors’kyi State University, Russia.
A docent of the chair O.O. Polovynko taught the Russian language as a foreign one according to the agreement about cooperation between DNU and Shandun University in Veifan city (CNR) in 2007. A teacher of the Polish language M. Rutkovs’ka works at the chair by intergovernmental agreement between Ukraine and Poland. The chair is the center of the Russian language and literature teachers of Ukrainian association (Ukraine) (RLLTUA), which is the part of International association of the Russian language and literature teachers.
The chair trains foreign students and post-graduate students in the Russian language as a special one and the Russian language as the second foreign language, trains ethnic students from higher educational establishments in the specialty Language and Literature (Russian).
The translation and linguistic training of the foreigners chair cooperates with Gdansk University (Poland) and Sukhum University (Abkhazia).
The Russian philology chair has connections with higher educational establishments in France and Russia: with the University of Nant city, Moscow State University, and Belgorod state university.
Students study at universities abroad. Teachers and students study in CNR, Japan, and Turkey. The government of China sends professors of higher educational establishments of CNR every year according to the state agreement to teach the Chinese language and special philological disciples at the Chinese philology department.