List of universities in Ukraine

Ukraine has 966 higher education institutions (as of 2004/ 05). The majority of the universities under the Ministry of Education and Science. The range of programs has been growing since 1990 and is located in a transitional phase. Important university cities are Kiev ( Ukrainian transliteration: Kyiv ), Kharkiv ( Russian transliteration: Kharkov ), Dnipropetrovsk ( Russian transliteration: Dnepropetrovsk ), Odessa and Lviv (Ukrainian Lviv ).

Overview

619 facilities have a so-called accreditation of the first and second stage. This is to " Technika " and " colleges ", many have gotten just since Ukraine's independence, the university status granted. Many facilities were part of the Soviet era to the post-secondary vocational education and training sector. At these colleges 548 500 students were enrolled in the academic year 2004/ 05.

347 facilities are accredited to the third and fourth stages. Here are universities, academies, conservatories and institutes, with a total of 2.0267 million students enrolled in the academic year 2004/ 05, with the number in the last ten years has more than doubled (1995 /96: 922 800 students). Most universities are funded by tuition fees, many students studying in distance learning programs.

At various universities corruption is a problem. This affects both access to higher education, as well as the awarding of marks and titles. The Ukrainian government has set itself the objective of reducing corruption and appropriate programs, however, can still, especially in distance learning the questions to be bought before the test against such payments.

Study

The Ukraine has a generally high level of education. The literacy rate is 99 percent ( 2001). After the end of the Soviet Union Ukrainian language of instruction. In eastern Ukraine, Russian is parallel language of instruction in the universities. In the offered distance learning courses and graduate programs also isolated study programs in English and German language are offered.

The general entrance requirement for university is the acquisition of complete secondary education in a general or technical secondary school. This is done currently in the rule after eleven years of schooling. As part of the school reform of 1998, he will be in the future after twelve years. However, the universities in exceptional cases, people can allow to study who do not meet this recording condition.

State universities and colleges are located in Kiev ( 1834), Kharkov ( 1805), Odessa (1865 ), Lviv ( 1661), Cherkasy, Chernivtsi (1875 ), Dnepropetrovsk ( 1918), Zaporizhia (1933 ), Simferopol (1918 ) and Donetsk (1965).

Degrees

The financial statements Bakalawr (Ukrainian Бакалавр ) (4-6 years), specialist (Ukrainian Спеціаліст ) ( 5 years), Magistr (Ukrainian Магістр ) (1-2 years) were in the early 1990s, introduced almost simultaneously with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian university system is currently being amended. Since 2005, Ukraine is Bologna Contracting State. To meet the main demands of the Bologna agreement, Ukraine will have similar, create understandable, two-stage and measurable by credit qualifications.

• First stage: Bakalawr, specialist

First degree is a Bakalawr (BA, BEd, BMed. . ), The ( in medicine: five years) after four years can be achieved. The Ukrainian Bachelor's degree ( Dyplom Bakalawra ​​) includes an undergraduate university degree and a professional training in the subject. The degree as a specialist ( Dyplom Special Ista ) can be achieved after five to six years, depending on the respective universities.

• Second stage: Magistr

The Master's Degree ( Dyplom Magistra ) can be obtained after completion of the first stage and lasts up to two years. Final examinations, the writing and defending a thesis is mandatory.

• Third stage: kandydat nauk (Ukrainian Кандидат наук )

The doctoral degree PhD responded to an international doctorate or a PhD. Duration of the Phd is designed to last three to four years. Mandatory is a viva voce with professional examinations, the preparation and public defense ( defense ) of a scientific thesis. Widely used is the doctorate is a postgraduate course. Access is an outstanding, entitling to doctoral degree ( specialist / magistr / magistr ).

• Fourth stage: doctor nauk (Ukrainian Доктор наук )

The doctoral degree Doctor of Science is the highest academic degree in the Ukraine and comparable to the habilitation. A degree in " Kandydat nauk " is assumed to leave his habilitation thesis and defend it.

Universities and Colleges

The universities of Ukraine are very interested in international contacts and university collaborations. The offers of the European Union, for example, Socrates, an EU action program for transnational cooperation in the field of education, are increasingly used by universities. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD ) has set up in Kiev at the NTUU "KPI " an outpost.

Among the larger and more prestigious colleges and universities in Ukraine:

Medical universities

• State Medical University Bukovina Chernivtsi
• Kharkov State Medical University
• Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy
• State Medical University Donetsk
• State Medical Academy Ivano- Frankivsk
• National Medical University Kiev ( " O. O. Bogomolez " )
• State Medical University Crimea, Simferopol ( CSMU )
• Lviv State Medical University ( " Danylo Halytsky " )
• Lugansk State Medical University
• Odessa State Medical University
• State Medical University Zaporizhia
• Sumy State Medical University
• Ternopil State Medical Academy ( " I. Y. Gorbatschewsky " )
• Vinnitsa State Medical University ( " M. I. Pirogov " )

Pedagogical universities

• State Pedagogical Institute Berdyansk ( P. D. Ossypenko ): www.phdpu.edu.ua/
• Kharkiv State Pedagogical University (H. S. Skovoroda )
• State Pedagogical Institute Chernivtsi ( T. H. Shevchenko )
• State Pedagogical Institute Poltava (W. G. Korolenko )
• State Pedagogical Institute Drohobytsch ( Ivan Franko )
• Kiev State Pedagogical University (M. P. Dragomanow )
• State Pedagogical Institute Krivoy Rog
• State Pedagogical University of Luhansk ( T. H. Shevchenko )
• State Pedagogical Institute Melitopol
• State Pedagogical University Nizhyn ( W. N. Gogol )
• State Pedagogical University Odessa ( K. D. Uschynsky )
• State Pedagogical Institute Slowjansk
• State Pedagogical Institute Zhytomyr ( I. Franko )
• Sumy State Pedagogical University (A. S. Makarenko )
• State Pedagogical University Ternopil
• Uman State Pedagogical University ( P. G. Tychyna )
• State Pedagogical Institute Vinnytsia
• State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages ​​in Gorlowka
• State Pedagogical University Chernigiw ( T. G. Shevchenko )