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Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University Дніпропетровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара 
Motto Docendo discimus Established 1918 Type National university Rector Mykola Polyakov Admin. staff -- Students 20,000 Location Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Affiliations IAU Website www.dnu.dp.ua/ 
Dnipropetrovsk National University
Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukrainian: Дніпропетровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) 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.
Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk 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 6-th 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 imroving 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
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Structure
The university comprises 4 higher education institutions of the first and second level of accreditation, 16 faculties, 46 research laboratories, 3 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 8 schools, 1 lyceum and the 1 gymnasia. Some of the 19 faculties of the university include:
- Linguistics
- Sociology
- Journalism
- International Business
- Business
- History
- Psychology
- Law
- Physics, Electronics and Computer Sciences
- Chemistry
- Biology, ecology and medicine
- Geology and Geography
- Applied Mathematics
- Mechanical Mathematics
- Physics and Technology
List of specialties in Dnipropetrovsk National University in 2011/2012 academic year.1. Jurisprudence
2. Accounting and Auditing
3. International Economic Relations
4. Management of Foreign-economic Activity
5. International Relations
6. Finances
7. Banking
8. Enterprise Economy
9. Personnel management and labor economics
10. International economics
11. Marketing
12. Russian Language and Literature
13. Translation (English Language and Literature)
14. Laboratory Diagnostics
15. Language and Literature(English)
16. Language and Literature(German)
17. Language and Literature(French)
18. Language and Literature(Chinese)
19. Language and Literature(Japanese)
20. Translation (German Language and Literature)
21. Translation (French Language and Literature)
22. Journalism
23. Psychology
24. Ukrainian Language and Literature
25. Economic Cybernetics
26. Social Work
27. Sociology
28. Computing
29. Biology
30. Biochemistry
31. Zoology
32. Botany
33. Microbiology and virology
34. Ecology and environmental protection
35. Archaeology
36. Physiology
37. Design
38. Political Science
39. Publishing and Editing
40. Economic Statistics
41. Automated System Programming
42. Intellectual Systems for Making Decisions
43. Computer Systems and Networks
44. Information Control Systems and Technologies
45. Food Technologies
46. Geography
47. Fine and Crafts Arts
48. Philosophy
49. Radioelectronic Devices, Systems and Technologies
50. History
51. Defectology
52. Automatics and Management in Technical Systems
53. Apparatus of Radio Connection, Radio Broadcasting and Television
54. Archives Studies
55. Applied Physics
56. Microelectronics and Semi-conductive Devices
57. Biotechnical and Medical Apparatus and Systems
58. Physics of Solids
59. Radiophysics and Electronics
60. Technologies and Means of Telecommunications
61. Chemistry
62. Chemical Technology of High Molecular Compounds
63. Applied Mathematics
64. Mathematics
Famous students
Famous former students include second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, writer Oles Honchar, novelist Pavlo Zahrebelnyi,[2] and author of Chernobyl poems Lyubov Sirota.
References
See also
- List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)
External links
- http://www.dnu.dp.ua/ - official website (Ukrainian only)
Categories:- Universities in Ukraine
- Ukraine university stubs
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