Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University

Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University (Ukrainian: Kremenchuk National University named after Mikhail Ostrogradsky ) is a university in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, the largest university in Poltava Oblast. There are more than 7,000 students studying at the university as of 2013. [2]Its current rector is Mykhaylo Zagirnyak.

Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University founded in 1960 as a general technical faculty of the Poltava Institute of Agricultural Construction Engineers. In 1972 the Faculty was subordinated to the Kharkiv Road Institute.[3] By that time it had 854 students who were trained by 24 teachers including seven associate professors.

Monument near Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University

By 1974 the number of students had increased by 2.5 times, teaching staff had trebled. Kremenchuk GTF was transformed into the Kremenchuk branch of Kharkiv State Polytechnic Institute. The work of the branch was characterised by two distinct periods: from 1974 to 1989 it offered cooperative education by either evening classes or correspondence learning and from 1989 to 1997 it offered full-time studies.

The university collaborates with 75 foreign higher education institutions, research institutions in 25 countries. It cooperates with numerous foreign research, educational, industrial institutions, international educational organizations, programs and funds: ERASMUS+, TEMPUS, Horizon 2020, OPEN WORLD, DAAD, FULBRIGHT.