The Dnipro University of Technology is a public polytechnic in Dnipro, Ukraine. The university was founded in 1899 as the Yekaterinoslav Higher Mining School. According to the ratings of UNESCO, it achieved 6th position among the 200 Top universities in Ukraine in 2009. At the beginning of its educational activity, Higher Mining Technical School had only two departments – the Department of Mining and the Department of Factory-Production, but their academic curricula had little difference (the difference was in the number of taught hours of educational courses for students). From the date of its founding the university was equipped with 2 libraries in each department, a Mineralogical Museum, chemical, and mechanical laboratories, and educational classes for each discipline. The Technical School had a lot of problems during its activities. After 10 years of its establishment, there were only 9 teachers, and the stable cadre was constantly decreasing. This made the issue of equalizing the Technical School’s rights with other higher educational institutions more urgent, and eventually the school was turned into the Ekaterinoslav Mining Institute.
University Today
The Dnipro University of Technology provides educational activity at the 53 departments (27 of which are major-based) united into 9 faculties of full-time education. There is an Institute of Extramural Learning and several post-graduate and doctoral courses. The university has an Interbranch Institute of Continuing Learning, a Scientific and Research Unit, the Ukrainian-American Linguistic Center, a Linguistic Center, a Ukrainian German Cultural Center, a Ukrainian-Spanish-Latin-American Center, a Center for Ukrainian-Polish Cooperation, and Energy Saving and Energy Management Center. The polytechnic also has links with the Prydniprovsk Science-and-Technology Center of Information Protection, Ukrainian-American Lyceum, Marganets College, Pavlograd Technical School, and Motor Transport Technical School.
The Dnipro University of Technology has 16,000 students enrolled in programs at the university. Most of all post-graduate and doctoral students are taught in 27 educational specialties. The licensed number of student admissions for entering the university each year is 1,400 students. The academic process is provided by 600 teachers including more than 100 doctors of science, professors, and 350 candidates of Science and associate professors. The infrastructure of the university (general area of constructions and buildings is 126,049 square meters estimated at 29,8 mln. hryvnia cost), modern computer basis (more than 1,000 modern computers) local and global computer nets, library funds with more than one million volumes, strong material and technical laboratory basis, ensures a high standard of higher education.
Institutes and Faculties
- Institute of Power Engineering
- Institute of Economics
- Institute of Mining
- Faculty of Construction
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Geological Prospecting
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Extramural Learning
- Interbranch – Institute of Continuing Learning