Sumy State University

Sumy State University is located in Sumy city in the North-East of Ukraine. Its history began in 1948. Today, SSU is a leading university of a classical type with the region's III-IV accreditation level.
The University currently serves about 16,000 students pursuing pre bachelor, bachelor, specialist and master degrees in 46 majors and 22 fields of knowledge. About 1300 international students represent almost 50 countries worldwide.
Sumy State University is included in Global Research University Profiles (GRUP) by ShanghaiRanking taking position 500+. SSU is also included in the world's best universities' directory by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Sumy State University enters the TOP-group (3%) of leading universities globally. According to the international ranking of higher education institutions QS World University Rankings, it is classified as a university with high research intensity according to the international ranking of higher education institutions. SSU is in the TOP-100 according to QS University Rankings: EECA (Emerging Europe and Central Asia) among the universities of this region. According to these rankings, SSU enters the TOP-5 Ukrainian universities. SSU also ranked 101-150 among the fastest-rising young stars of the higher education world by the QS.
According to the worldwide Internet rankings Webometrics and uniRank University Ranking, SSU takes the 3rd and second places among Ukrainian universities. It also takes high positions in the European ranking U-Multirank that identifies most of the indicators of academic, extracurricular, international and other activity of SSU as being higher than the average world value.
Sumy State University is the first Ukrainian higher education institution, which passed in 2014 an independent external audit of the QS Company. It was given the highest points (5 stars) in Teaching, Engagement, Access and E-learning.
According to Round University Ranking results, completed by one of the most extensive information and analytical companies in Thomson Reuters, Sumy State University takes the 671st position among the world's universities and the 4th position among Ukrainian universities.
Under University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), evaluating the quality of scientific and research activity of world's universities, Sumy State University holds the 7th position among Ukrainian universities and is included in the TOP-10% universities worldwide.
According to SCImago Institutions Rankings, Sumy State University takes the 6th place among Ukrainian universities and enters the TOP-200 universities of Central and Eastern Europe.
According to international ecological ranking UI GreenMetric 2016, Sumy State University takes the 65th position among the world's universities and the 1st position among Ukrainian universities. SSU is the 1st Ukrainian University to enter this ecological ranking.
Sumy State University is the 4th among Ukrainian HEIs according to the evaluation of the quality of universities' scientific activity based on the citation of scientists on Google Scholar by Webometrics.
SSU holds high positions in the consolidated ranking of Ukrainian universities "Osvita.ua" (educational leader in the northern region, the 7th position among all the universities). SSU also enters the TOP-3 Ukrainian universities based on the international activity indicators according to "TOP-200 Ukraine".
The University holds the highest position among Ukrainian higher education institutions for the number of prize-winning places in All-Ukrainian competitions of students' research works. It is among leaders in All-Ukrainian Olympiads in educational disciplines, training areas and majors.
The University is a signatory of Magna Charta Universitatum and a reliable member of International Association of Universities, European University Association, Euroasian Universities Association, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, IIENetwork and other international organizations.
Sumy State University cooperates with more than 200 partners from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Japan, South Korea, China and other countries of the world.
SSU is a reliable partner for joint projects in frames of international grant programmes of EU (Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, Jean Monnet, Erasmus+, Horizon 2020), United Nations Development Programme, British Council, the World Bank, bilateral scientific and research projects, grants of private foundations. The University accomplishes more than 200 grants annually. For the last five years, the amount of research in international grant projects has increased 20 times.
The University actively develops academic mobility programmes, including long-term and short-term studying, internships and placement programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students, research and teaching staff, and administrative staff using technologies of credit transfer and recognition of academic results.
According to SCOPUS database, Sumy State University holds a leading position among Ukrainian higher education and research institutions for h-index (the index of research impact) and the number of citations by the international academic community.
Corresponding Members of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 120 Doctors of Sciences, Professors and 650 Candidates of Sciences (PhD), Associate Professors represent the University's academic staff. There are postgraduate and post-doctoral programmes in 21 majors, degree awarding academic councils.
According to the number of commercial contracts and grants, and the efficiency of budget funds, Sumy State University is one of the leaders among Ukrainian universities.
Advanced library information system contains over 3,1 million items both in hard copies and e-copies and provides access to the world's most famous electronic databases. The University's library is a prize-winner of All-Ukrainian contest "Library of the Year". SSU repository holds the 1st position in Ukraine according to the Ranking Web of Repositories by Webometrics.
Web of Science Core Collection database indexes the University's three scientific journals such as "Marketing and Management of Innovations", "Journal of Nano- and Electronic Physics" and "Nanomaterials: Applications and Properties". The last two are also indexed by SCOPUS database.
Affiliated UNESCO branch on information technologies, TOEFL-center, resource and educational centres of Microsoft, Cisco, PortaOne, Delcam, NUTCRACKER, 1С, Siemens, SAS, MindK and other companies operate at SSU campus.
Thirty-six kinds of sports and about 100 sports groups are available at the University. Sports teams perform at the premier league level. About 100 students are the record breakers and prize winners of the Olympic Games, World, European and Ukrainian Championships.
Three SSU undergraduates and masters were invited to join the Ukrainian national team for the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London. Six SSU undergraduates and masters participated in the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. They were awarded gold medals in relay biathlon race and bronze medals in boxing and biathlon sprint.
At the ХХVІІ World, Winter Universiade Dmytro Rusynov won gold in the individual race, silver in the mass start and bronze in the mixed relay as the part of Ukrainian national team. At the First European Games, Artem Khomula won bronze in judo. At the ХХVІІІ World Summer Universiade, three SSU students as part of Ukrainian national team won silver in volleyball. Bohdan Yadav and Tetiana Levytska won bronze medals in judo. At the ХХІХ World Summer Universiade judoka, Andrii Kolesnyk won bronze.
According to the results of Universiades and the Championships of Ukraine, SSU is in the TOP-3 in higher education institutions' corresponding category and occupies high positions among all Ukrainian universities.