| Uzhhorod National University | |
| Native Name: | ДВНЗ "Ужгородський національний університет" |
| Motto: | The more we know, the more we can do! |
| Established: | 1945 |
| Type: | Public |
| Rector: | Prof. Volodymyr Smolanka, Doctor of Medical Sciences |
| Faculty: | 3000 |
| Students: | 13600 |
| City: | Uzhhorod |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Address: | 3 Narodna Square |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.uzhnu.edu.ua |
| Qs Eeca: | 251-300 |
| Qs Eeca Year: | 2022 |
| Qs Eeca Ref: | [1] |
Uzhhorod National University (Ukrainian: Ужгородський національний університет) (full name − State University "Uzhhorod National University") is a Ukrainian state higher educational institution in the city of Uzhhorod in Ukraine.
It was founded on October 18, 1945. It is one of the classic universities of Ukraine, accredited at the IV (highest) level of accreditation (license of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine series AG No.582508).
The university has 20 faculties (biological, geographical, engineering, history and international relations, mathematical, medical, medical No.2, dental, economic, health and physical education, information technology, postgraduate education and pre-University training, social sciences, foreign philology, tourism and international communications, physical, philological, international economic relations, chemical, legal), 2 educational and scientific institutes, 115 departments, territorially separated structural subdivision ‘Branch of SHEI’ UzhNU ‘in Lviv, natural sciences and humanities college.
The university is included in the list of the best - in terms of educational, scientific, international, innovative and information activities - higher education institutions of Ukraine, occupying 20th positions in the consolidated ranking, 11th place in the Webometrics rating, 14th − in the SciVerse Scopus rating, 12th − in the U- rating. Multirank, 13th in the QS EECA University Rankings and 11th in the TOP-200 rankings of Ukrainian universities.
Uzhhorod National University has a full-time academic staff comprising 1285 scientific and pedagogical workers, including 158 doctors of sciences, professors, and 715 candidates of sciences and associate professors. 284 people work part-time, including 34 doctors of sciences, professors, 132 candidates of sciences, associate professors. The share of doctors of sciences, professors is 12.2%, candidates of sciences, associate professors - 54%. Among the higher education institutions in Ukraine in terms of the number of teachers with scientific degrees UzhNU − in 5th place.
The university has 2 corresponding members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 5 academicians of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 13 honored workers of science and technology of Ukraine, 9 honored educators of Ukraine, 6 honored lawyers of Ukraine, 15 honored doctors of Ukraine, 5 honored inventors of Ukraine, honored journalist of Ukraine.
At the end of 2020, 14,946 students were studying at Uzhhorod National University, College of Natural Sciences and Humanities. 5,315 people receive higher education at the expense of the state budget, and 9,631 people at the expense of individuals and legal entities.Form of study: full-time and part-time. Specialists are trained at the educational and qualification levels: bachelor, doctor of philosophy, master.
Uzhhorod National University is the first higher educational institution in the history of Zakarpattia, which has passed a long and thorny path of its formation, and its prehistory dates back several centuries.
College of Jesuit Fathers (1613−1773)
The chronology of the origin of higher education in Zakarpattia can be traced back to 1613, when the county prefect of Ung and Zemplin count Georgy Druget on November 23, 1613, allowed to establish a monastery of the Jesuit order and a collegium (college / higher gymnasium) in Humenno (now Slovakia). During the XVII century, the college provided five grades educational program.
Uzhhorod Royal Catholic Higher Gymnasium (1773−1920)
On March 1, 1775, Empress Maria Theresa transferred the buildings of the former Uzhhorod Jesuit College to the ownership of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Mukachevo. After a site was determined in 1778 for the construction of a new gymnasium near the former Jesuit college, a new building was built for the gymnasium on the site of the old barracks in 1783–1785 (now the Uzhhorod Commercial Technical School is located here).
Uzhhorod State Real Russian Gymnasium (1920−1945)
In 1920, the Drugetiv gymnasium was renamed the Uzhhorod State Real Russian Gymnasium. On October 27, 1938, the commission of the Ukrainian Academic Committee in Prague considered the project of organizing the Ukrainian University in Carpathian Ukraine. On March 9, 1939, the ‘Draft Law on the Establishment of the Ukrainian State University in Khust’ was developed. The university was supposed to start operating on October 1, 1939, but the Hungarian occupation of the region in March prevented this.
Uzhhorod State University
On October 18, 1945, the government of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party adopted a joint resolution ‘On the opening of a State University in Uzhhorod.’ The university began its existence with 4 faculties. On February 1, 1946, 160 first-year students of four faculties began their history, philology, medicine, and biology studies. On July 1 of the same year, there were 15 departments with 1 professor, 9 associate professors, 14 senior lecturers, 11 lecturers, and 8 assistants.
In 2000, for a significant contribution to the development of national education and science by the Decree of the President of Ukraine, the university was awarded the status of national and renamed Uzhhorod National University with the fourth level of accreditation.In February 2013, the Transcarpathian State University was attached to Uzhhorod National University by order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Uzhhorod National University is a member of the Association of Universities of the Carpathian Region (ACRU), which is a member of the Association of European Universities (EUA) and is an associate member of the International Association of Universities (IAU). The university cooperates with 125 partners from different countries, including Charles University, Technical University of Prague (Czech Republic), Corvin University, University of State and Law. L. Koshuta (Hungary), Kosice University, Pavol Jozef Shafarik university, Comenius (Slovakia), University of Oradea, University of Cluj, Babes-Boyai (Romania), Institute of German Studies, University of Koblenz and Landau, University of Regensburg (Germany), Association of Homeopathic Medicine, Rome (Italy), University of Zagreb (Croatia), Slovak Medical University (Bratislava) and others. In 2020, 7 new international bilateral agreements, 7 agreements on the implementation of international projects and 8 agreements to support Erasmus + academic mobility were concluded.
The catalyst for international activities in 2020 was participation in global rankings (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings by Region, U-Multirank, UI Green Metric World University Rankings, Webometrics Ranking of World's Universities), associations, and consortia.
Necessary for further integration into the European scientific space is Uzhhorod National University's membership in international associations: Magna Charta Universitatum, the Danube Rectors Conference, the European Universities Association, the International Consortium of Universities.
The university is included in the European scientific space, Uzhhorod National University students have the opportunity to study at leading universities in Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic (Pomeranian Academy, University of Presov, Etves Lorand University, Debrecen University and others).
Uzhhorod National University and other educational institutions of Ukraine started the international exchange of students and teachers within the Erasmus + program in 2014. The European Union provides scholarships and covers the costs of training and accommodation. Uzhhorod National University cooperates with Slovak, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Italian, French, Croatian, and Romanian universities within the Erasmus + program. Since 2014, 115 participants of the educational process from 15 faculties of Uzhhorod National University have taken part in the Erasmus + program.
Every year UzhNU students have internships abroad − in Slovakia, Germany, Turkey, participate in international schools, training, have the opportunity to become scholarship holders and win grant programs of academic exchanges named after Fulbright (USA), The scholarship program for graduates from Ukraine by the European-University in Frankfurt (Germany), Summer International School in Vilnius (Lithuania) and others.
Starting from the 2014/2015 academic year, the university started teaching in English for foreign students majoring in ‘Medical are’ and ‘Dentistry’. In the 2020 academic year, this practice was extended to all medical specialties, the field of knowledge ‘International Economic Relations’, ‘Hotel and Restaurant Business’, ‘International Law’, ‘Social Work’, ‘Management’, ‘Computer Engineering’, ’Economics’. December 31, 2020, 1,635 international students enrolled in the university with a bachelor's or master's degree. A total of 1,724 people received educational services, including 15 graduate students and 38 clinical residents. Most international students are Indian citizens − 1222 people. Citizens of Jordan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon also study at Uzhhorod National University. Maldives, Zimbabwe, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, USA, Netherlands, and other countries. People from 52 countries represent student assets.
The scientific base consists of research institutes, laboratories, and centers, notably the Research Institute of Solid State Physics and Chemistry, Phytotherapy, Carpathian Studies, Central Europe, and Ukrainian Studies named after prof. Molnar, Means of Analytical Technology, Political Regionalism, Brain, Trauma, Family Medicine. There are research laboratories of physical electronics with a laboratory of space research, protection of natural ecosystems, research and training center of molecular microbiology and immunology of mucous membranes, Center of Gungarology.
Based on the concluded agreements, international cooperation with 86 scientific institutions in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Germany, Russia, the US, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey is carried out. Extensive international cooperation of the university contributes to the expansion of scientific research in various fields of knowledge: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, philology, archeology, problems of the Carpathian region, etc.
The Council of Young Scientists of Uzhhorod National University provides informational and organizational support for young scientists and graduate students participating in grants, research internships, competitions of scientific works, conferences. In recent years, young scientists have repeatedly won grants from the President of Ukraine and scholarships of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists, participated in international (e.g., Germany, Japan, USA, Slovakia, Hungary, and other countries) and national conferences.
Uzhhorod National University is one of the largest patent holders for protecting original technical solutions among higher education institutions in Ukraine. Over the years of operation of the patent and the licensing department received more than 936 security documents. In particular, the university's research and teaching staff became the authors of patents of Ukraine for invention − 409, utility model − 526, and industrial design 1.
For 75 years, the university has developed its school of teaching, scientific and educational traditions. It employs 158 doctors of sciences, professors, 715 candidates of sciences, associate professors. Uzhhorod National University scientists have published 77 monographs, 16 textbooks, 60 textbooks and 84 textbooks, and 3 dictionaries in recent years alone.
The university provides a wide range of educational services and has the right to train specialists in the following educational and scientific degrees: at the first (bachelor's) level of higher education – in 70 specialties; at the second (master's) level of higher education – in 61 specialties; at the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education − from 18 specialties.List of educational programs:
Bachelor's degree
Educational degree ‘DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY’
Educational and scientific programs of candidates for the degree of ‘Doctor of Philosophy’
Educational degree ‘MASTER’
The university has a unique, most extensive library in the region, numbering 1.7 million publications, including a collection of first editions published before 1500. The library has an electronic catalog and library, as well as an Internet center and Wi-Fi zone.
Rector Volodymy Smolanka
During the period from 1945 to the present, the rectors of the university were:
SU `Uzhhorod National University' includes the following structural units:[2]
Research institutes, Centers, and Laboratories:
Address: room 228., 14 Universytetska str.
Only in this university among the universities of the CIS countries, there is a department of Slovak philology
In June 2013, a Foucault pendulum was installed in the main building of the university.
About 1700 international students from 52 countries study at Uzhhorod National University.
Every third young person in the city of Uzhhorod is a student of Uzhhorod National University.
The scientific library of the university has more than 1 million 700 thousand documents.
Uzhhorod National University library keeps 32 incunabula - the first printed books that were published before 1500.
The University Botanical Garden grows a giant redwood, the tallest and one of the oldest trees on Earth.
The Zoological Museum has the best collection of preys and owls in Central Europe (215 exhibits).
Archaeologists of Uzhhorod National University were the discoverers of the parking lot of primitive man of the Paleolithic era near the village of Korolevo, which is a monument of European importance.
The Laboratory of Space Research - one of the three stations for optical observations of artificial satellites of the Earth - houses the tallest telescope in Ukraine.
Uzhhorod National University has the highest mountain bio base in Ukraine, ‘Kolochava’.
The university disposes of one of the three classes and access points for the visually impaired in Ukraine.
On September 16, 2015, UzhNU students set a record for the most massive conquest of Hoverla. 416 people climbed to the top.