Chernivtsi National University was founded on October 4, 1875 by decree Franz Josef, Emperor of Austro-Hungary.
In the beginning there were colleges of theology, philosophy and law. K.Tomashchuk, a renowned scientist and public figure, became the first rector of the University. The scientists of European and world fame taught and conducted their research at the University: economist J.Schumpeter, lawyer G.Gross, historian R.Kaindl, Slavic scholars O.Kaluzhnatskyi and S. Smal’-Stots’kyi and composer and writer S.Vorobkevych, among others.
After the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 and annexation of Northern Bukovina by the Romanian kingdom, until 1940 the university was one of the Romanian higher educational institutions.
In 1940, after the reunification of Northern Bukovina with Ukraine, the University was reorganized into a state higher educational institution with the instruction in Ukrainian. In 1989 Chernivtsi National University was named after Yuriy Fedkovych, the well-known writer of Bukovina, herald of Ukrainian national Renaissance.
Today in the university there are 16 colleges: physics, engineering, applied mathematics, chemistry, biology, philology, foreign languages, history, geography, economics, pedagogy, law, and philosophy and theology, 71 departments, 16 thousand students majoring in 67 areas. Academic and research work is provided by over 900 professors (100 DScs, associate professors, about 500 PhDs), and 6 Specialized Scientific Boards on candidate and doctoral dissertations defence. Basic areas of scientific research are theoretical and applied semiconductors material study; development of new materials technologies, micro-circuits and devices for optical, radio, and microelectronics, semiconducting instrument-making; static optics, holography; technologies of module teaching; ecology, geography; History of Ukraine, linguistics and literary studies. The University is known for its 5 scientific schools. The Science-research Bukovina Study Center is affiliated with the University, which maintains relations with other centers of Diaspora.
The University together with other institutions in Ukraine founded “Bible and Culture” research center which studies the fundamental problems of humanities and social sciences.
Chernivtsi National University has 14 buildings, the Botanical Gardens, Zoological and Earth Science/Topography Museums, Publishing House, and Library with over 2.5 million books. There is the Department of Military Studies.
The faculty and the students of the University participate in various exchange programs in the USA, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, China, Yugoslavia, and Israel and other countries of the world.
In October, 1999 Chernivtsi National University became the member of the International Universities Organization “Phi Beta Delta” (USA).
By the President’s Decree the title of “National University” was awarded to Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi State University on September 11, 2000.
College of Applied Mathematics
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
There are five departments:
Mathematical Analysis
College of Arts and Crafts
The college was founded in 2004 on the basis of Vyzhnytsia Applied Arts School named after V. Shkribliak as non-affiliated subdivision of Chernivtsi National University named after Yurii Fedkovych.
The college trains students majoring in:
Arts and Crafts:
College of Biology
The College trains specialists granting the following Bachelor’s (4 years) and Master’s (5 years) degrees of full-time and part-time studying in:
Agronomics
College of Chemistry
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
College of Computer Science
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
College of Economics
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
Pre-School Education
College of Engineering
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
College of Geography
College of History, Political Science and International Relations
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in:
College of Law
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in Jurisprudence
College of Modern European Languages
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external) in Philology:
College of Philology
College of Philosophy and Theology
The College offers 4-year (Bachelor degree) and 5-year (Specialist and Master degree) programs (full-time, part-time and external):
Physics
The scientific library includes 11 departments: collection department, scientific processing department, department of native fund preservation, department of foreign fund preservation, department of rare and valuable books, book borrowing departments, reading halls, branch department, department of cultural work, department of information technologies and information-bibliographic department.
Interesting is the history of the library. Founded in 1852 as Krayova library it became the first public library in Bukovina and since 1875 (the year of Chernivtsi University foundation) it is the University library. Its total book stock (by 01.01.2005) includes 2.554 thousand copies. Among them: 1.215 thousand copies of scientific literature, 171 thousand of textbooks and manuals, 648 thousand of fiction. The fund of foreign books contains 376 thousand of works in German, Rumanian, English, Latin, Polish, Ancient Greek, French, Hebraic, Yiddish and other languages. At the department of foreign and valuable editions nearly 70 thousand copies are preserved: incunabula, platypuses, native and foreign oldprints, private collections of V. Simovych – professor of Lviv University, Ye. Kosak – Chernivtsi University professor, K. Raifenkugel – Chernivtsi University library director, Tomashchuk’s collection – the first Chernivtsi University president, archives of V. Simovych, Ye. Kosak, I. Karbulytskyi, I. Spivak and the others. The most valuable book dates back to the XIIIth century. It is written on parchment in Latin. This fund also contains books of Marie-Louise, the wife of Napoleon I, books of Franz-Josef I, university professors S. Smal-Stotsky, Ion Sbiera, etc.
The scientific library has alphabetic, systematic catalogues, catalogues for stuff use and alphabetic and systematic catalogues of foreign issues; bibliographical files – the main reference file, file of country study, file of university teachers, scholars, etc. the electronic catalogue started to develop.
The structural departments of the scientific library and its branches at the university departments are annually attended by 37 thousand readers. Currently the year book loan totals 500 thousand copies. The scientific library maintains book-exchange ties with university libraries of 24 countries of the world, in particular of Russian Federation, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia, Rumania, Poland, Austria, USA, Britain, Canada, China, Thailand, etc., and numerous university libraries of Ukraine.
Vice president for research manages the research work at the university through Research Department, the head of which is a vice-vice president.
Research Department is comprised of the following departments:
Vice-president for science manages the research activity of the university, coordinates Research Department work and other departments of the university, of the main Informational and Telecommunication Center, scientific library, Ruta Publishers, Research Center of Institute of Bukovynian Studies, Geophysical observatory, botanical garden, Faculties, Departments and other research laboratories.
The basic lines of scientific research projects are:
investigations of theoretical and applied semiconductors material study; elaboration of new technologies, materials, chips, and devices for optical and microelectronics, semi-conductor equipment;
statistical optics, holography; technology of module teaching;
ecology, geography; innovation techniques in business and education, problems of creative self-actualization;
history of Ukraine; problems of language and literature.
Nowadays scientific schools, which belong to these branches of science, are working productively at the university. The staff and faculty of more than 1000 workers conduct these research works, among whom 105 professors, and nearly 500 are Associate Professors. At the university there are 8 specialized scientific councils on the defence of Ph. D thesis and doctoral thesis.
Training of the scientists and scientists-pedagogues is supported chiefly by the post-graduate study department; a perspective plan of the training of the specialists of higher qualification has been made. Post-graduate specialities already exist in all the departments, an amount of the specialized scientific councils on defence of Ph. D thesis and doctoral thesis has increased. In 2006 almost 200 post-graduate students, 87 competitors for PH. D. thesis, 19 competitors for doctoral thesis studied at the post-graduate department. 9 doctoral (planned -7) and 43 Ph. D. theses (planned -30) were defended. The efficiency of the post-graduate department (that means a defense during the studies) greatly increased within the last years – in 2006 it reached 65%.
| Acronym | CNU |
| Accreditation | IV |
| Status | State |
| Established | 1875 |
| Teaching staff | >900(100 DScs, associate professors, about 500 PhDs) |
| Students trained | 16 000+ |
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