Taras Shevchenko National University

The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is today a classic university with a distinct research profile and the leading contemporary academic and educational hub of Ukraine. With the independent Ukrainian nation arising, the University is facing new challenges and responsibilities.

The high status of a classical research University is underpinned by the numerous academic achievements of its staff. The staff at the University have a broad range of formal achievements recognised, in particular with the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, Awards from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and branches of the national academies of sciences, Orders.

There are 13 Faculties and 8 Institutes within the university. Kyiv University has a number of other faculties, including: a Ukrainian Studies Centre, a Geological and Zoological Museum, a Museum of the History of the University, an Interfaculty Museum of Linguistics, an Informatics Centre, an Astronomical Observatory, a Publishing and Reprographics Unit called "Kyiv University", and Maksymovych Academic Library.

The University awards Junior Specialist’s, Bachelor’s, Higher Qualification Post-graduate degrees and Doctoral degrees. Overall, about 26 thousand students and students of a military school, 1,660 postgraduate students and about 130 PhD students are working for higher qualifications at the University.

International students, who are going to get higher education in Ukraine, are offered a variety of educational programs for Bachelor, Master and Philosophy Doctor educational levels. Students can also study Ukrainian, English or Russian at the Preparatory Department as their pre-university training.

High status of a classical research University is underpinned by the numerous academic achievements of its staff.

Student accommodation is provided by a campus with comfortable halls of residence, computer clubs, sports facilities, cafeterias and dance halls. To promote a healthy lifestyle, the University has both health and sports in the Kyiv area, on the banks of the river Dnipro.