Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, ) is a public higher education institution located in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were History and Linguistics, Law, Medicine, and Physics and Mathematics.
Nowadays, DNU, as a large classical university, includes 14 faculties in formal, natural and social sciences. 730 academics provide learning for about 8,500 students (including 134 international students from nearly 30 countries). The University offers 98 programs for obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees and performs training for PhD-students in 35 fields. Second higher education can also be obtained at DNU.
Before Russian aggression in the East of Ukraine in 2014, the University had 20 faculties with 1,300 academics. The number of students came to about 22,000 (with 3,000 international students among them). Oles Honchar Dnipro National University has close ties with one of the world`s largest rocket and space centres – Yuzhnoye SDO Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, as well as with other industrial and scientific organisations of the Donetsk-Prydniprovsk region populated by more than 15 million people.
According to its strategy of internalization, DNU actively establishes scientific and academic links with other institutions all over the world. Currently, 93 bilateral agreements with HEIs and research centres from Europe, Asia, the USA and Canada run at the University. Based on the wide range of foreign bilateral partnerships, DNU lecturers and researchers closely collaborate with their international colleagues, in turn, the University students are taught within credit or dual degree exchange programmes. Besides, students and staff of the University regularly participate in various global mobility programmes such as the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme (EU), Mitacs (Canada), Global UGRAD (the USA), DAAD programmes (Germany), etc.
DNU implements international educational and research projects. For example, since 1993, DNU has won 14 TEMPUS projects, two Jean Monnet Modules and two Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education projects. The University Scientific Library has 2,600,000 volumes including rare and unique editions. DNU has built strong scientific schools of thought in Mathematics, Mechanics, Radiophysics and Electronics, Rocketry, Neurocybernetic, Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry, History of Ukraine, Historiography and History of Ukraine, Archaeology, German, Literature and Linguistics.
History
Ekaterynoslavsky University (now Oles Honchar Dnipro National University) was founded in the Ukrainian state of Pavlo Skoropadsky in 1918. In 1920 Ekaterynoslavsky University was transformed into Ekaterynoslavsky (later in Dnipropetrovsk) Institute of Education, which operated until 1933. In 1933, Dnipropetrovsk State University was restored, however, the revival of the university coincided with the intensification of Stalin's totalitarian regime, which led to mass arrests in a university setting, and irreparable losses of personnel. During World War II some faculty and students went to defend their homeland from the Nazi invaders; others approached Victory Day, working in the evacuation.
In September 2000, Dnipropetrovsk State University acquired the status of a national institution.
(The city of Dnipropetrovsk was renamed Dnipro in May 2016 as part of the decommunization laws enacted a year earlier.)
Structure
The university comprises 14 faculties, 46 research laboratories, three research institutes and four colleges.
The list of DNU faculties is as follows:
• Faculty of Ukrainian and Foreign Philology and Study of Arts
• Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations
• Faculty of History
• Faculty of Psychology and Special Education
• Faculty of Applied Mathematics
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Physics, Electronics and Computer Systems
• Faculty of Economics
• Faculty of Systems and Means of Mass Communication
• Physical and Technical Faculty
• Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
• Faculty of Chemistry
• Faculty of Biology and Ecology
• Faculty of Medical Technologies of Diagnostics and Rehabilitation
Also, there are three research units: • Research Institute of Biology
• Research Institute of Chemistry and Geology
• Research Institute of Energy Efficient Technologies and Materials Science
Besides, DNU has the following scientific and cultural facilities: