Kremenchuk National University

University education forms your knowledge and abilities in independent, prospective, and professional thinking. Our university teachers actively use new educational technologies. They make every effort to change the usual stereotype that "Study is the process of many hours of dull cramming of facts." That is why we look for talented youth capable of extraordinary thinking, decision-making, and scientific advance. To all our future students - the future of Ukraine and our university depends on you!
Kremenchuk National University can trace its origins back to 1920. Today it is the only state institution of higher education in the Kremenchuk region and one of the largest educational establishments in the Poltava region. Today KrNU takes first place among the Poltava region's higher education institutions in the consolidated ranking of the Internet-source OSVITA.UA and fifth place in the TOP-10 of higher education institutions in the Central region of Ukraine. The university is becoming internationally recognized according to different world rankings: QS World University Rankings (KrNU is one of 28 Ukrainian universities included herein) QS EECA Ranking Top-200 Universities in Emerging Europe and Central Asia (it is one of 14 Ukrainian universities included herein) Ranking WEB of Universities WEBOMETRICS (the 34th place among 291 Ukrainian universities).
The creative potential of the teaching and research staff at the university, its material, technical and laboratory facilities, widespread contacts with industrial enterprises, traditional partnership with educational institutions abroad allows us to train specialists to a very high and modern standard following the motto: "Urbi et Orbi" which means "for City and World."
In your immediate future, you will be as challenging as you face examinations. This period is a test of all the hard work you and your schoolteachers' have put in. This may be your first self-independent step in your adult life. Take it seriously!
The university's strategic goal is to implement the principles and ideals of the Bologna Declaration by striving to provide an education that meets the international standards, to guarantee the competitiveness of the graduates, and to ensure the recognition of our higher education diplomas abroad.
Studying at KrNU is carried out in two scientific institutes (The Institute of Electromechanics, Energy Saving, and Automatic Control Systems and The Institute of Mechanics and Transport), four faculties (Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering Faculty of Economics and Management Faculty of Law, Humanity and Social Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences), two colleges (Kremenchuk Mykhaylo Ostrohradskyi National University College Komsomolsk Polytechnic College) and 28 departments. KrNU provides training for Bachelor's, Specialist's, and Master's qualifying degrees. There is also a thriving Centre for Professional Development and Adaptation.
About 5,000 full and part-time students are educated at KrNU every year. A further 2,500 full and part-time students are educated at the two colleges every year.
Four hundred university teachers are providing the study process. Included in this are 51 Doctors of Science, Professors and 185 Ph.D., Assistant and Associate Professors. There are 13 academicians and seven corresponding members of Ukrainian Academies of Sciences, 16 holders of the state honor titles, seven winners of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technics, 15 winners of the Prize of the President of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Young Researchers.
The university's primary goal is to implement the state's priorities: initially - to increase access to higher education of the highest quality to the younger generation. In recent years the number of study areas has doubled, and the number of specialties has increased from 18 to 32. The education process includes the state of the art technologies for studying, business games, and problem seminars.
Besides, it has also been implemented as a system of module-rating control of knowledge. Great attention has been paid to using computers to study, allowing for increased self-study by students. Technologies used to study a professional foreign language have been developed and widely used, enabling self-work skills to read professional, scientific original literature. The implementation of computer control diagnostic complexes and virtual programming complexes based on virtual instrument technology have raised future specialists' qualifications to a principally new level.
The university administration team works at improving the material and technical base developing to meet new special requirements. Students have at their disposal 26 modern computer laboratories with Internet access, an electronic library with a computer hall, 60 specialized laboratories, a publishing office, two canteens, a students' caf?, a concert hall, a campus with four dormitories, and a modern sports center: a sports complex "Polytechnic" which includes a stadium which can accommodate 10,000 spectators, a primary and training football pitch, nine sports pitches, an indoor swimming complex, facilities for track and field, four 'gorodki' courts, six specialized technically equipped gymnasiums for physical training and an indoor rock-climbing center (the only one in the region).
The university collaborates with 72 foreign higher education institutions and research institutions in 25 countries. It cooperates with numerous foreign scientific, educational, industrial institutions, international educational organizations, programs, and funds: Fulbright, IREX, DAAD, ERASMUS+, British Council, ЕUREKA, Open World, etc.
Students acquire skills in management, team-work, and decision-making by involvement in self-governing institutions (i.e., students' councils and trade unions). The most active students complete some exciting forms of work: the contests "The Best Student Group," "The Student of the Year," volunteering, charity events, information auctions aimed at promoting a healthy way of life.
The university can be proud of its sports achievements. Twenty sections of sports improvement work at the sports complex "Polytechnic." Every year KrNU combined teams participate in the Poltava region summer student games, where they win prizes. 8-12 students participate in international sports competitions, 15-20 represent our university and win prizes at all-Ukraine competitions.
The university is internationally recognized according to different world rankings: QS World University Rankings (KrNU is one of 28 Ukrainian universities included herein) QS EECA Ranking Top-200 Universities in Emerging Europe and Central Asia (it is one of 14 Ukrainian universities included herein) Ranking WEB of Universities WEBOMETRICS (the 34th place among 291 Ukrainian universities) Ranking SCIVERSE according to the international scientometric database SCOPUS (the 62nd place among 128 Ukrainian universities).
Today Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University successfully combines the best traditions of national higher education, international experience, and modern educational requirements in the context of globalization.