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Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, Ukrainian: Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is a public higher education institution located in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were History and Linguistics, Law, Medicine, and Physics and Mathematics.
Nowadays, DNU, as a large classical university, includes 14 faculties in formal, natural and social sciences. 730 academics provide learning for about 10,700 students (including 130 international students from nearly 30 countries). The University offers 98 programs for obtaining bachelor’s and master’s degrees and performs training for PhD-students in 35 fields. Second higher education can also be obtained at DNU.
Before Russian aggression in the East of Ukraine in 2014, the University had 20 faculties with 1,300 academics. The number of students came to about 22,000 (with 3,000 international students among them).
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University has close ties with one of the world`s largest rocket and space centres – Yuzhnoye SDO Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, as well as with other industrial and scientific organisations of the Donetsk-Prydniprovsk region populated by more than 15 million people.
According to its strategy of internalization, DNU actively establishes scientific and academic links with other institutions all over the world. Currently, 93 bilateral agreements with HEIs and research centres from Europe, Asia, the USA and Canada run at the University. Based on the wide range of foreign bilateral partnerships, DNU lecturers and researchers closely collaborate with their international colleagues, in turn, the University students are taught within credit or dual degree exchange programmes. Besides, students and staff of the University regularly participate in various global mobility programmes such as the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme (EU), Mitacs (Canada), Global UGRAD (the USA), DAAD programmes (Germany), etc.
DNU implements international educational and research projects. For example, since 1993, DNU has won 14 TEMPUS projects, two Jean Monnet Modules and two Erasmus+ Capacity Building for Higher Education projects.
The University Scientific Library has 2,600,000 volumes including rare and unique editions.
DNU has built strong scientific schools of thought in Mathematics, Mechanics, Radiophysics and Electronics, Rocketry, Neurocybernetic, Biotechnology, Organic Chemistry, History of Ukraine, Historiography and History of Ukraine, Archaeology, German, Literature and Linguistics.