WELCOME !
The Sumy State University was founded in 1948. Today the students of the
university are trained in more than 30 specialties. The academic and practical
training complex, which includes more than 20 educational institutions was
developed on the basis of the university.
The university comprises:
• 10 faculties;
• Military Artillery Institute;
• Engineering complex;
• 15 teaching-consulting centres in different cities of Ukraine and
abroad.
About 500 lecturers work at 48 departments, including 45 Professors and Doctors of
Science, 300 Assistant Professors and Candidates of Sciences. The university has
close scientific relations with research centres of the Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, different universities of Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, the
USA, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, CIS.
The SSU is a member of International Association of Universities (IAU), European
Association of International Education (EAIE), International Union of Business
Economy, International Society of Engineers.
Traditionally the students of the SSU win a lot of prize places among the classical
universities at the Ukrainian student Olympiads.
The SSU graduates work in 15 countries of the world.
The Sumy State University invites you for studying and scientific co-operation.
The university is of classical type and of the 4-th level of accreditation.
Today it consists of 48 departments. The university trains specialists on the levels
of: Junior Specialist, Bachelor, Master, PHD. The fields of training are:
• Engineering mechanics;
• Computer sciences
• Energetics;
• Ecology;
• Law;
• Philology;
• Economics and enterprising;
• Management;
• Applied mathematics;
• Mechanics;
• Electronics;
• Computerised systems, automatics and operation;
• Medicine;
• Electrical technics;
• Automatization and computer technology;
• Chemical technology and engineering;
• Marketing;
• Building;
• Military sciences;
• Computer engineering;
• Engineering science of materials;
• Metallurgy;
• Specific categories (energetic management; environment and natural
resources economy;quality, standardization and certification);
The list above comprises 47 specialities and 38 specializations. 6 new specialities
have been founded for the last 5 years. They are:
• Jurisprudence;
• Informational design technologies;
• Applied science of materials;
• Energetic management;
• Quality, standardization and certification;
• Environment and natural resources economy;
• Information processing and systems operation.
The university also comprises Shostka Institute, Konotop Institute, Sumy Machine
Manufacturing College and Shostka Chemical-Technological College, Konotop
Polytechnical College, Military Artillery Institute, teaching-consulting centres of
correspondent study located in Sumy, Poltava, Chernigiv, Vinnytsya and Byelgorod
regions. More than 20 department branches exist at the production enterprises,
organisations and banks.
About 10000 students study at the university. The academic process is provided by
2000 persons staff, including ~ 500 lecturers (250 Candidates of Sciences and
Assistant Professors, 50 Professors and Doctors of Sciences).
The university has trained more than 15 thousands of national economy specialists
in the post-war period. There exist 10 scientific schools of the world level at the
university. The SSU has close scientific and educational relations with the
universities of America, Europe and Asia. The leading scientists are the members of
the international academies and the majority of them get international grants.
Young scientists and talented students get the educational grants from the
President of Ukraine, from the Cabinet of Ministers or from the local government.
There are three academic councils at the university - one doctoral and two candidate
councils. 4 doctoral and 32 candidate theses were defended in 2000 -2001.
The results of the Ukrainian students Olympiads prove the high level of training at
the university. In 2000 - 2001 the students of the SSU took 37 prize-winning places,
that is one of the highest rates among all the Ukrainian universities.
The university has quite close relations with foreign universities. The SSU students
are sent abroad for studying in magistracy, for postgraduate studies and practising
in the foreign higher educational establishments. These universities are: University
of Salford (England), Karlov University (Czech Republic), University of Petrosani
(Romania), "Petrol-Gas" University (Ploiesti, Romania), Wrozlav Polytechnics,
Cracow University (Poland).
Professors from Great Britain and the USA are invited for lecturing to develop
students' skills at foreign languages.
The university stock includes: 22 buildings, 122 specialized stream classrooms, 270
group classrooms, 118 studying laboratories, 31 computer classrooms; 131
laboratories, the library-informational centre containing over 1 million books;
reading rooms; students' hostels; the large number of sport facilities: rowing and ski
centres, a swimming pool, a stadium, game and gymnastic halls, tenniscourts, a
shooting gallery, a student sport-recreation camp in the town of Gurzuf on the
Black Sea coast.
There are Masters of Sports, winners of the World and Europe championships
(archery) among the students. The students-sportsmen comprise national Ukrainian
teams of different levels; the basketball team of the university takes part in the
Ukrainian championship in the membership of the first league.
The state assignment of the graduates who study on the budget places is also
available.
The SSU is an educational, scientific and cultural centre of the region. The lecturers
and students take active part in regional studies, revival of Ukrainian traditions,
expansion of the Ukrainian language in use. The scientific digests "Visnyk SumDU"
(6 series) and "Sumska Starovyna" are issued at the university. The encyclopedic
digest "Sumshchina" is about to come out. The university organizes plenty of
cultural-educational arrangements for the region youth and population.
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