National Aerospace University

National Aerospace University – "Kharkiv Aviation Institute", NAU "Khai" (Ukrainian: ???????????? ????????????? ??????????? ????? ?. ?. ??????????? «??????????? ?????????? ????????», ???; Khai) is a university in Ukraine which specializes in aviation and space engineering. The Khai was founded in 1930. For the admission of international students, the University works with agents who are responsible for the admission and accommodation-related matters.

The NAU "Khai" was founded in 1930 on the basis of the aviation division of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. In 1941-44 it was evacuated to Kazan.

Its history is closely connected with the development of aircraft engineering and science in the Soviet Union. The university is famous for its creation of the first in Europe high-speed aeroplane with retractable landing gear and the creation of the design of the turbojet engine developed by a teacher of the Khai A. M. Liulka who afterwards became the academician and designer of many structures of aircraft engines including the engine of the aircraft Su-27.

The Khai is a unique higher educational institution where the aeroplanes developed by the Institute Design Bureau under the supervision of professor I. G. Neman were produced serially at the aircraft plants and run on passenger airlines.

The University has trained about 60,000 engineers. More than 80% of the specialists with higher education who work in Ukrainian aerospace area are the graduates of the NAU KhAI.

At present about 9500 students and 160 post-graduate students are trained at the university; 650 teachers and 2.5 the employers work here. Among them, there are 120 professors and candidates of science. Among the teachers of the university, there is one USSR State Lenin Prize winner, seven USSR State Prize winners, 28 Ukraine State Prize winners, 11 USSR Council of Ministers Prize winners.

According to the reports, and reviews obtained from International students and graduates, National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute (Khai) does not provide the same quality of education to International students as it provides to the Ukrainian students studying in Russian medium. Moreover, the degree given by this University is not well recognized in India because the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is no more providing equivalence for Ukrainian degrees.