National Technical University Kharkiv Politechnical Institute

  • Address:
    Kyrpyshova str., 21, c. Kharkiv, 61002, Ukraine
  • Telephone:
    +38(057) 700-15-64, 707-64-11, 707-66-01
  • Web-site:
    http://www.kpi.kharkov.ua   
Rector - Yevgen Ivanovych Sokol

The main types of products and services:
- Bachelors, specialists, masters in 75 specialties.
- Post-graduate students in 75 specialties and doctors in 76 specialties.
- PhDs and doctors of technical sciences in 29 and 25 specialties , accordingly.
- Scientific -&-engineering products in the field of machine-building, power engineering, chemical technologies, resource -saving technologies, automated control systems, software and information technologies development, environmental protection, biotechnologies and so on.

The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute which was founded in 1885 is the oldest technical higher educational institution of the Left-Bank Ukraine.
The origination of the Ukrainian technical science in the field of Mechanics, Theory of Reliability, Applied Chemistry, Aviation, Nuclear Physics and Cryogenics, Electric-&-Heat Power Engineering, Tractor-&-Automobile building as well as Diesel Locomotive building is connected with the University.
The University has trained more than 135 thousand of engineers during the years of its existence. 22 University graduates became corresponding and full members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, more than 100 scientists were awarded State Prizes.
Today the University includes 24 faculties, 87 departments, Institute of Tank troops named after Verkhovna Rada, machine-tool technical school, scientific-&-technical library with the stock of above 2 million bands, interbranch institute for advanced studies of personnel, three scientific and research institutes, doctorate course. The scientists of the university defend every year more than 60 papers for PhD and Doctor's degrees.
NTU "KhPI" participated in setting up 17 educational, scientific and industrial Centers. These Centers include scientific-&-research institutes, higher educational institutions, 15 lyceums, 6 gymnasiums, 100 secondary schools, 37 technical schools and colleges, 23 vocational schools in the city of Kharkiv and in its region.
Nowadays, more than 20 thousand students, 320 post-graduate students, 1700 teachers and scientists work and study at the University. Among them are 160 Doctors of Sciences and Professors, more than 760 Candidates of Sciences (PhD) and docents. The University trains full-time specialists in 75 specialties and instruction by correspondence trains specialists in 40 specialties and 26 lines: engineering mechanics, management, applied physics , ecology, applied mathematics, mechanics, computer sciences, engineering material science, power engineering, electrical engineering, computer sciences, automatics and control, computer engineering, chemical technology and engineering, foodstuff technology and engineering, electromechanics, automation and computer-integrated technologies, electronics, electronic devices, metrology and measuring equipment, physical training and sports, economics and enterprise, devices, telecommunications, philology, railways and railway engineering.
NTU "KhPI" has a military chair, which trains students in 11 military specialties. The graduates are given a military rank of a " reserve lieutenant" .
The curricula envisage the obligatory use of information and telecommunication technologies, comprehensive mathematical, liberal , economic and ecological training.
The University trains specialists on three qualification levels. The first level is a 4-year training for Bachelor's degree, the second is a 5,5-year training to get a qualification of an engineer and the third level is a six years training to get a Master's degree.
Much attention is paid to the integration of science and education, development of new specialties and new scientific lines. Over the last 10 years the university set up 7 new faculties 15 departments and 25 new specialties.989 specialists had been trained for 69 countries of the world.
The faculty for preliminary training is one of the best in Ukraine, over 30 years of its existence the faculty gave training to 4500 foreign students who were matriculated to the higher educational institutions of Ukraine.
The inter-branch institute for advanced studies (MIPK) in the new lines of development of the engineering and technology set up in cooperation with NTU "KhPI" the educational and scientific center for post-graduate studies. The MIPK NTU "KhPI" gives profound training which is endorsed by state diplomas. The training of natural and juridical persons on contractual basis is also carried out. The advanced studies are carried out in 21 specialty majoring in the field of information technologies, economics, entrepreneurship and intellectual property.
The scientists of the university continue its glorious traditions, successfully develop and multiply the scientific achievements of their predecessors, who set up scientific schools that are recognized in Ukraine and far beyond its boundaries. These are the schools for problems of metal physics, high metal treatment technologies, electric drive, internal combustion engines, tank engineering, ceramics and composite materials, fat synthesis, nitric acid synthesis, petroleum fuel, electric chemistry, spacecraft control systems, industrial and medical electronics, information technologies, energy saving, control systems, etc. Today the university has all in all 25 scientific schools.
Within the last five years the scientists of NTU "KhPI" were awarded five State Prizes in the field of science, engineering and architecture and the prizes of the National Academy of sciences of Ukraine.
18 honored workers of science and engineering and honored workers of Higher School of Ukraine, 8 State Prize winners, 26 academicians of the National Academy and branch academies of sciences of Ukraine work at the University.
By decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No1709 of 19.12.01 the experimental base of NDPKI "Molniya" and the ionosperic probe of the research institute "Ionosphere" were put on the list of scientific objects that are considered to be the national patrimony of the State.
The University collaborates with the leading universities from 24 countries of the world within the framework of international programs, projects and grants. Its partners are 64 higher educational institutions and companies from all over the world. In 2003 the university accomplished 28 international projects within the bounds of TEMPUS-TASIS, Inko-KOPERNIKUS, INTAS and other projects, 15 agreements with foreign firms, 94 scientific papers that were financed from the State Budget of Ukraine. Over the last three years the scope of scientific research done on government order increased 11 times more. In 2003 the total amount of financing for research and design work exceeded 9 million UAH. On the grounds of the Joint Decree of the Ministry of Education and National Academy of sciences of Ukraine the Northern-Eastern Regional Center of scientific -&-educational computer network of Ukraine (URAN) was set up on the basis of NTU "KhPI". It provides the fruitful activity of the powerful information system of the niversity, its efficient cooperation with the information system of educational and scientific institutes in Kharkiv region.
The University has modern material and technical base with developed infrastructure which allows it to carry out the educational-&- training process, to do scientific research and to solve social problems, including those related to students' and teachers' accommodation, recreation and medical treatment of collaborators and improvement of the sportsmen technique. The University has a Student Palace with dancing hall, exhibition and conference halls, the Sports Center with 2 swimming pools, 2 sports and recreation camps (one is in the city of Alushta and the other is in the city of Chuguev which can accommodate 300 and 200 persons, accordingly), a sanatorium for 100 persons, a dining hall for 1700 persons, a sanatorium "Berminvody" for 57 persons, hostels for 7384 persons and 7 dwelling houses.


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