Today in Ukraine there are more than 800 universities, among which a special place is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Eastern Europe - Lviv University.
General
As of 2014, in LNU trained nearly 14 thousand students, of which slightly more than 10,000 in full-time education and about 3.5 thousand. Correspondence.In addition, dissertations prepared 812 graduate students.With regard to the scientific and teaching staff, the teachers from the 1500 536 - associate professors, 157 - professors, 612 - candidates of sciences and 131 - Doctor of Sciences.
Lviv National University.Ivan Franko: how to get
LNU main building is located in the building, which in the last quarter of the 19th century met the Regional Galician Sejm.This magnificent building in the classical style plastered in pale yellow and decorated with columns and its pediment and portico you can see the allegorical sculptures "Work", "Education" and others. Also on the facade can not miss the old motto of the University of Lvov in Latinwhich translates as "educated citizens - the decoration of the motherland."Address of the main building LNU Street.Sich Riflemen, 14, and registered office of the university - University Street, 1. In addition, on the street Dragomanov, 50 in the house, located the Faculty of Electronics.To get to the street riflemen, you can use trams plying on routes 1 and 9, or by bus number 29 and number 29 a.
Lviv University history
LNU is so interesting and eventful history, even to its summary will need more than one page.Suffice it to say that it was founded on the basis of the Jesuit college, serving in Lviv in 1608.In 1661, King John II Casimir signed the act for the institution of the rights of the university.Thus, until 1773 University of Lviv was under the direction of the Jesuits, and the main items are considered theology, philosophy and Latin.After entering Galicia in the Habsburg Empire Jesuits society activities, as well as other Catholic orders was discontinued, and the teaching was conducted in the Ukrainian language.A century later, in the walls of the Lviv University studied a well-known writer and political activist, Ivan Franko, whose name was given LNU (then Leningrad State University) in 1940.In the last decades of the 20th century as part of the modernization of the university here we were introduced modern educational technology and the opening of several new departments, which should please the teachers and students.
Faculty of Lviv University
in LNU.Franko has 17 departments, including biology, geology, geography, applied mathematics and computer science, economics, electronics, journalism, history, foreign languages, art and culture, international relations, physical, philosophical, legal, chemistry, philology and the Mechanics and Mathematics.They include 112 operating departments, while some of them are museums.For example, as part of the Faculty of Biology acts Zoological Museum, founded on the basis of the Cabinet of Natural History, opened in 1784, and at the Faculty of History - Archaeological Museum, which is considered one of the famous sights of the city of Lviv.
Scientific and educational institutions operating at LNU
Besides the above, Lviv University is composed of a whole series of scientific institutions.For example, at work there: Botanical Garden, the Astronomical Observatory, Museum of History of the University Information Technology Center of the Nordic countries and humanitarian studies, research institutes frankovedeniya, Slavic Studies, European integration and many others.From educational institutions deserve special mention LNU pedagogical and legal colleges, Center of Italian and Classical Gymnasium.
Rules of admission to the LNU
Lviv University accepts students for study in an undergraduate degree.To do this, you must apply to the university certificates ZNO 3 subjects certain conditions of admission to universities in Ukraine in 2014, depending on the specialty chosen by the applicant.At the same time as the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko added to the category of research, he is entitled to determine the list of competitive items.
International cooperation and training of foreign nationals
Franko LNU for years been actively involved in the programs of exchange of students and teaching staff.Every year more than a hundred students listen to lectures on a wide range of disciplines in universities abroad.Moreover, students of historical and geographical faculties pass educational practice at universities in Poland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic, and employees of Philology, Mechanics and Mathematics, Chemistry Department, Faculty of International Relations, and the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science probation in trainingestablishments in Poland, France, Colombia, Switzerland and Austria.As for foreign students, the year (the grant of the United States and with the assistance of the University of Kansas) carried out a summer school for students from the United States, extending a six-week internship in Luhansk on the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language.
Notable alumni and professors
Lviv National University.Franko, who will soon celebrate its 350th anniversary, is the alma mater for hundreds of thousands of graduates.Among those who graduated from this university, there are many scientists, artists, politicians and businessmen, are known far beyond Ukraine.For example, in addition to Ivan Franko, he finished: the famous Ukrainian poet Bohdan sculpture, created the first effective vaccine Rudolf Weigl typhoid, coined the term "genocide" - Raphael Lemkin, one of the pioneers of modern probability theory - Mark Katz and many others.No less "star" is and professorial structure of LNU.Over the years, the university taught: outstanding mathematician Stefan Banach, Polish representative in the League of Nations - Shimon Ashkenazi, the famous linguist - Jerzy Kurilovich known Polish physicist - Marian Smoluchowski and many others.
Reviews of LNU and its ranking among universities in Ukraine
Lviv Ivan Franko University repeatedly received high marks from renowned foreign scholars and held high level in the various rankings.So, in 2008, in the opinion Ukrainian employers, university took fourth place, and in 2012 - the sixth stage of Webometrics ranking among universities in Ukraine.At the same time, those who already have a diploma of Lviv National University, argue that received within its walls the knowledge to help them achieve rapid career advancement, as well as to continue their studies in the most famous universities in Europe and the United States.
Student Life
students from various faculties of LNU published several newspapers, including electronic, organized quiz competitions on ALL UNIVERSITY "What? Where? When?".
