Number of International Students at Ukrainian Universities
In the 2019–2020 academic year, more than 63,000 international students are pursuing higher education in Ukraine. Most of them are from India, Morocco, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan.
In the 2019–2020 academic year, more than 63,000 international students are enrolled in higher education institutions in Ukraine. This information was reported by the state-owned enterprise Inforesurs in response to a request from UNN on Wednesday, November 6.
In the 2019–2020 academic year, 63,820 international students are enrolled in Ukrainian higher education institutions. Among them are 14,860 students from India, 6,046 students from Morocco, 4,858 students from Azerbaijan, and 4,541 students from Turkmenistan.
Six Ukrainian higher education institutions made it into the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, published on Thursday, September 12.
- Lviv Polytechnic National University
- Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
- Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute National Technical University
- Sumy State University
- Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
This ranking is one of the world’s largest and the only list of universities based on their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge exchange, and fostering international collaboration.
Top universities are selected based on 13 indicators to build trust among students, faculty, and governments around the world. In total, approximately 1,400 educational institutions from around the world were included in the 2020 ranking.
Universities in The Times Higher Education are grouped. Lviv Polytechnic National University was placed in the 801–1,000 group. All other Ukrainian higher education institutions are in the 1,000+ category.
Until this year, there were four Ukrainian higher education institutions in The Times Higher Education ranking. Interestingly, Sumy State University and the National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute” have been added, replacing the National Technical University “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,” which was included in the 2016 ranking.
The University of Oxford has remained at the top of the ranking for several years in a row. The California Institute of Technology moved up to second place, with Cambridge in third.
As a reminder, the EU previously allocated millions of euros for educational projects in Ukraine. Eight Ukrainian projects won the competition under the European Union’s Erasmus+ program in the area of Higher Education Capacity Building and will receive grants totaling 7.15 million euros. It is noted that these funds will be used to modernize educational programs, improve teacher qualifications, and expand cooperation among universities. Ukrainian researchers will begin implementing the new projects as early as October 2019 and January 2020.
“The projects focus on modernizing educational programs in the fields of cyber-physical systems and occupational therapy. Some of the work also involves improving the quality of foreign language instruction by teachers and enhancing cooperation between universities and economic and social partners,” the statement reads.
Fifty-one Ukrainian organizations will implement the projects; in particular, three relocated universities—Donetsk National Technical University, Donetsk State University of Management, and the Gorlovka Institute of Foreign Languages—are involved in the work.
Fifty-two partners from 21 countries around the world will participate in the projects involving Ukraine. As a reminder, over the past four years , the EU has provided Ukraine with approximately 10 billion euros in aid . Of this amount, 200 million euros are allocated annually in the form of grants, meaning this is free aid.