Odessa National Polytechnic University

Odessa National Polytechnic University
Одеський національний політехнічний університет
Established	1918
Type	Public
Rector	Oborskiy Gennady
Admin. staff	4000
Students	15,000
Location	Odessa, Ukraine
Website	www.opu.ua

History

The university history started on September 18, 1918. Over years of its existence ONPU launched into professional life thousands of youth. Among its graduates are many talented engineers, scientists, heads of scientific organizations and universities, top management staff at different industries, as well as political actors.

Academics

Today the university represents a huge training center of high-qualification personnel in the south Ukraine. The Odessa National Polytechnic University figures among 14 Ukrainian universities, members of the European Universities Association, as well as among four Ukrainian universities, members of International Universities Association.

ONPU created a "polytechnic university" complex consolidating licea, high schools, colleges, and technical schools of the whole southern Ukraine region. 20,000 of students, graduate employees, post-graduate students are trained here, the process being effected by 4,000 lecturers, researchers and practical engineers. There are 57 academicians and corresponding members of both special Ukraine Academies of Science, more than 120 professors and Doctors of sciences, almost 450 senior lecturers, Ph.D., 21 honoured workers of Science and Engineering of Ukraine, honoured worker of the National Education of Ukraine, 13 academicians of international academies.

The teaching process follows a multistage system: Bachelor, Specialist (practical engineer), Master of Science, Candidate of Science (Ph. D.) and the Doctor of Science. The Odessa National Polytechnic University structure includes 11 institutes, teo faculties, 62 departments, technical school and college.

Structure

• Ukrainian-Germane Institute
• Extramural Engineering Studies Institute
• Undergraduate Institute (Preparatory Studies)
• Institute of Radioelectronics and Telecommunications
• Industrial Technologies, Design and Management Institute
• Machine-Building Engineering Institute
• Foreign Students Preparatory Institute
• Institute of Computer Systems
• Power Engineering Institute
• Electromechanics and Energy Consumption Institute
• Business, Economics and Information Technologies Institute

External links

• Odessa National Polytechnic University -- official site