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 HEE address: 62483, Kharkiv region, Kharkiv district, «Dokuchaevske – 2» HEE Phone: +38 (057) 709-03-00 E-mail: office@lib.knau.kharkov.ua HEE website: http://www.lib.knau.kharkov.ua |
Today Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchaiev is a powerful institution of University education (the IVth accreditation level) that innovates and introduces contemporary European educational technologies. For two hundred and one year of its history the University has trained more than one hundred thousand specialists in agrarian sector both for Ukraine and other countries.
Hundreds of our scientists-teachers are the prize – winners of Ukrainian and foreign prestigious awards, among them: academician O.V. Palladin, the founder of the Ukrainian biochemistry school; І.І. Lukinov, an outstanding economist, academician, the vice president of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; O.M. Onishchenko, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the well-known economist in the agrarian sector; academician O.N. Sokolovsky, the world-known soil scientist, the first President of the Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; academician G.M. Vysotsky, one of the founders of the science of forestry and forest research; academician V.Ya. Yuriev, one of the founders of the Ukrainian selection science; academician T.D. Strakhov, the prominent phytopathologist and immunologist; professor G.F. Naumov, the founder of the scientific school of plant allelopathy and many others.
The University is proud of its graduates. Among them there are some former ministers, few heroes of Ukraine, many honored specialists in agriculture, Doctors of Sciences and PhDs, the heads of some leading agrarian enterprises in Ukraine and beyond. The KhNAU graduates occupy the leading positions in government bodies throughout Ukraine (state administrations, social insurance agencies, fiscal services, banking and treasury agencies, etc.).
Today KhNAU is an autonomous educational and scientific complex with a total area of 106.3 hectares. At the University there are six faculties, 32 departments and the Institute for Advanced Studies. The fundamental library comprises more than six hundred thousand copies of multidisciplinary publications in 11 languages of the world on all issues of agrarian and natural sciences. The University has the Center for Preparing Foreign Citizens, the dendrology park with an area of 22.3 hectares, the experimental field of KhNAU, Skrypaii educational and research forestry farm, etc.
Today the students of KNAU have the opportunity to obtain real work experience and practical language skills working on the farms of some European countries.
Nowadays numerous student clubs, 18 sports clubs, KVN team, singing and dancing groups, music bands, Ukrainian folk choir «Zhaivir» and various extra-curricular team activities are available for the students of the University.
Practically all KhNAU graduates are employed with no problems on leading specialist positions both in the agrarian sector and other branches of economy
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About student campus:
The University is located in an autonomous campus close to the city of Kharkiv in an ecologically clean area. It has 6 educational buildings, 6 student houses, a dendrology park, a pavilion with agricultural machinery, a gymnasium, a stadium, an assembly hall for 830 seats, etc.
HEE profile: Agrarian, economic and engineering sciences
Levels of training: Bachelor
Master
Doctor of philosophy
Doctor of science
Preparatory courses for foreigners: Yes
Admission board contact information: +38 (0572) 99-74-01
Centre for post graduate/doctoral training: Yes
Teaching in English language: Yes
Fields of education: Accounting and taxation
Agronomics
Ecology
Economics
Entrepreneurial management, commerce and exchange activities
Finance, banking and insurance
Forest management
Gardening and vine-growing
Geodesics and land surveying
Management
Park and garden management
Plant protection and quarantine
Public management and administration
Specialized tourism
School campus infrastructure:
There is also the Department of foreign languages which helps foreign citizens to develop their language skills at the beginning of their stay in Ukraine.
All foreign students are provided with the residence in student hostels situated close to the University buildings.
To become an educational brand, which now symbolizes the highest training quality of specialists for the agrarian sector is the main ambitious goal set before KhNAU named after DOKUCHAIEV.
