Sumy State University
Sumy State University is young full comprehensive Ukrainian state university with more than 50% of private funding sources and high international orientation. During the last 10 years we broke into the TOP of domestic universities: 5th place in Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, 6th place in Interfax Ranking, in the top-8 in ExpertRA Ranking. SSU also became the first Ukrainian university to be included in the top-200 best universities in the world according to the international ecological ranking UI GreenMetric University Ranking. The audit of the university performed by the European U-Multirank project awarded us with the highest score for 8 indicators. The University currently serves more than 16,000 students who are pursuing junior specialist, bachelor, specialist and master degrees in 60 majors according to 40 directions in 23 fields of knowledge both full-time and part-time. Currently, about 1400 foreign students at SSU represent more than 50 countries worldwide. The Preparatory Department at SSU offers Russian and Ukrainian language courses to help foreign students succeed. Moreover, such majors as Medicine, Computer Science and Management are taught in English. Prolific research groups at SSU are engaged in international grant programmes and projects of EU, United Nations Development Programme, World Bank programmes, etc. For the last 5 years the amount of research work in frames of international grant projects has increased in about 20 times.
To build a world class university in Ukraine providing to the rest of the World the highest quality university services. Implemented university model determines Sumy State University as a European class university harmonized in teaching and research activities, as well as knowledge transfer for the science, education and culture. Expanding the scope and forms of activities, entering new markets of university services both on regional, national and global levels should be considered by Sumy State University as a strategy of success.
Foundation year:1948
Short name:SSU
Type:Classical
Students:8440
Faculty:770
Faculty/Students Ratio:11:1
Region:Europe
Location:Sumy
