South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after Kostiantyn Dmytrovych Ushynsky is one of the oldest educational institutions of Ukraine and the first teaching one on the northern Black Sea coast.
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky started as a Pedagogical Institute which was established pursuant to the Decree of the Emperor Oleksandr the First in Odesa on May, 2, 1817, as a separate structural unit at the Rishelievskyi lyceum.
During 200-year history South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky passed a complex way of repeated name changes (the Institute of Teachers, the Institute of People’s Education, Odesa State Pedagogical Institute named after K. D. Ushynsky, South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky, South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. Ushynsky), liquidations and updates.
The modern South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University is the flagship of pedagogical education in the South of Ukraine, where students, post-graduate students and doctors have been successfully training in 47 specialties and specializations.
Since its establishment, more than 100,000 specialists for the educational system of our country and thirty other countries have been trained within its walls. Among its graduates and pedagogues are ministers, deputies of different levels, mayors, heads of large institutions, famous scientists and educators, directors of research institutes, schools, rectors of higher educational institutions, trainers and masters of sports, winners of Olympiads, recognized artists who made an invaluable contribution to the development of education and science worldwide.
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky is composed of 38 departments that are headed by doctors and professors – recognized experts in their fields. About five hundred teachers and twenty foreign specialists work at its departments.
The most important scientific studies at South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky were carried out in the framework of seventeen internationally recognized scientific schools.
The results of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky are reflected in printed works – more than two thousand scientific papers are annually published at home and foreign editing houses. Numerous monographs are published in different languages and in cooperation with the scholars of the USA, Israel, China, Great Britain, Lithuania and other countries.
Every year the University supports organizations of more than thirty international and Ukrainian scientific conferences. South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D.Ushynsky is a founder of scientific journals in philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, pedagogy, philology and others.
The University offers seven specialized Doctoral and Candidate Thesis Committees in twelve majors. Each year more than seventy theses are passed. Three hundred Ukrainian and foreign students from fifteen countries take postgraduate and doctorate courses as well as individual academic programs.
Almost three thousand students are involved in scientific work, the results of which are reflected in thousands of articles published every year. The participants of the educational process are winners of almost seventy contests, competitions and various Olympiads of national and international levels.
According to SCOPUS database the University ranks first among pedagogical universities of Ukraine.
The University collaborates with eighty educational and scientific institutions around the world.
There is an International Centre for Distance Learning functioning in association with the University; educational scientific information and culture offices of the State of Israel, the USA, Lithuania, China and Korea develop their work under the support of the University. The establishment is a coordinator of project studies by international programs Tempus, Vyshehrad Fund, the “Ukraine-Norway“ Fund and others).
The University is constantly developing. In recent years there was a significant increase in number of majors and specializations of training graduate, postgraduate and doctoral students. The University has an extensive system of material resources for providing educational process and scientific work. Thus, a modern scientific library was put into operation.
The University provides all necessary conditions for artistic, creative and sports activities of its students who can participate in forty sections and hobby groups.
Significant sporting achievements of the University students and graduates of different years are represented with twenty five Olympic champions, eighty three winners of world and European championships, twenty-eight honoured coaches and masters of sports of Ukraine.
Amateur creative collectives take part in many prestigious competitions and festivals in Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, China, the United States and other countries where they annually win prizes and get the Grand Prix.
Currently, according to different ratings the University is among the leaders of pedagogical and humanities universities and is presented with high awards, namely those of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and others.
FACULTIES and INSTITUTES:
- The Faculty of Philology
- The Institute of Postgraduate Education and Certification
- The Faculty of Foreign Languages
- The Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Rehabilitation
- The Faculty of Music and Choreography
- The Faculty of Physics and Mathematics
- The Subfaculty of History and Philosophy
- The Faculty of Arts and Graphics
- The Faculty of Primary Education
- The Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology
- The Faculty of Social Studies and Humanities
The classrooms and laboratories at the University are equipped with audiovisual equipment, video equipment and all necessary technical means of training. Constant attention is paid to diagnostics, repair, modernization and upgrading of the equipment. In the auditoria where foreigners are trained, there are all necessary conditions for multimedia support for conducting lectures, seminars, approbation of scientific studies, conferences; the equipment of the classrooms supplied with the means of multimedia meets the current norms.
Accommodation
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University has a well-established social infrastructure. Applicants and employees are provided with modern hostels, catering complexes, medical centres, sports complexes (including specialized gyms, a rifle shooting range, equipped stadiums and sports grounds). In particular, social infrastructure of the University comprises 5 student hostels (the living space per student is 10 m2, which corresponds to the established standards), 7 canteens and buffets that meet the requirements for catering facilities, 3 assembly halls, 6 gyms, 7 sports grounds, 2 stadiums, 4 tennis courts.
There are two medical centers at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University. In hostel No. 1, there is an office of ambulatory reception, a procedural office, physiotherapy offices, an insulator, a dentist’s office. The items are equipped with the necessary equipment, inventory, equipment, tools, which allows us to provide the requisite medical aid if necessary. The medical centers are the structural subdivisions of Student City Polyclinic No. 12, in which university applicants can also receive qualified medical assistance.
All the University buildings, including the hostels, are equipped with central energy, water and heat supply from the city networks. In the sphere of utilization, new control devices are introduced, in particular, gas, water, heat and power supply accounting devices. Due to the installation of luminaires with LED and energy-saving lamps, the reduction of electricity consumption is ensured.
In all the University buildings, there are cafes, buffets, 2 canteens.
