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Sumy State University is located in Sumy city in the North-East of Ukraine. The university was established in 1990 as an independent institution with the origins dating back to 1948. It offers study programs in all major faculty areas: Engineering and Technologies, Life Sciences and Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The University currently serves about 14,000 students who are pursuing pre-bachelor, bachelor, and master degrees in 51 majors and 22 fields of knowledge. About 1600 foreign students represent almost 50 countries worldwide.
Sumy State University is the first Ukrainian higher education institution, which passed an independent QS Stars audit in 2014 and was given the highest points (5 stars) in such categories as Teaching, Engagement, Access and E-learning.
The University is a signatory of Magna Charta Universitatum and a reliable member of International Association of Universities, European University Association,Euroasian Universities Association, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, IIE Network and other international organizations.
Sumy State University cooperates with more than 200 partners from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Japan, South Korea, China and other countries of the world.
SumDU is a reliable partner for joint projects in frames of international grant programmes of EU (BUP, Jean Monnet, Erasmus+, Horizon 2020), United Nation Development Programme, British Council, the World Bank, bilateral scientific and research projects, grants of private foundations. The University accomplishes more than 250 grants annually. For the last 5 years the amount of research work in frames of international grant projects has increased in 20 times.
The University actively develops academic mobility programmes, including long-term and short-term studying, internships and placement programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students, research and teaching staff, as well as administrative staff using technologies of credit transfer and recognition of academic results.
There are TOEFL center, resource and educational centers of Microsoft, Cisco, PortaOne, Delcam, NEC’s Netcracker, Siemens, SAS and other companies operating at SumDU campus.
According to the number of commercial research contracts and grants, and the efficiency of use of budget funds, Sumy State University is one of the leaders among Ukrainian universities.
40 kinds of sports and about 100 sports groups are available at the University. Sports teams perform at the premier league level. About 100 students are the record breakers and prize winners of the Olympic Games, World, European and Ukrainian Championships.
The main examples of successful implementation of modern technologies into study process of Sumy State University may be the following:
- first in Ukraine to provide online courses ‘Examenarium with the official recognition of certificate: https://examenarium.sumdu.edu.ua
- combining traditional study techniques with e-learning in educational process (as an experiment in blended learning approbation): https://dl.sumdu.edu.ua/en/
- implementation of augmented reality with Unity in education: https://ulab.sumdu.edu.ua/