In Sumy, Ukraine it is a higher education institution with IV accreditation and has about 14000 students studying their pre-bachelor, bachelor, specialist, and master degrees in 55 majors and 23 fields. Moreover, there are more than 3000 employees in the university, including Corresponding Members of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine and about 130 Doctors of Sciences, Professors; Associate Professors represent the academic staff of the University. In the university, there are postgraduate and post-doctoral programs in 21 majors, and also degree-awarding academic councils are there with over 600 Ph.D. candidates.
Moreover, the library of the university has over 3.1 million items and won the All-Ukrainian contest “Library of the Year” and there is a TOEFL-center, and educational centers of companies including Microsoft, Cisco, PortaOne, Delcam, Netcracker, 1С, Siemens, SAS, and MindK operate at SumDU campus. The university sporting achievements include participants at the Olympic Games, World, European and Ukrainian Championships and also students have the opportunity to develop and improve their skills in 16 clubs in accordance with their interests as vocal, instrumental, jazz ensembles, rock bands, dance clubs, drama groups, theater of variety miniatures, folk ensembles, literary and creative workshop, and others interest areas things are there in the university.
The university is a collaborated member of Magna Charta Universitatum, International Association of Universities, European University Association, Eurasian Association of Universities and it has close international relations with leading university and scientific organizations in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Slovenia, and Russia.
Per year university carries about 400 scientific agreements, contracts and carries out over 70 international grants. The activity of the university directs to the integration into the scientific and educational sphere. The university is having collaborated partnership with 100 partners and take care of about 1240 foreign students, academic mobility, active scientific development cooperation with foreign universities, associations and funds, the program of dual diplomas with European institutions of higher education.
This university cooperates with more than 260 partners from 50 countries which include the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Japan, South Korea, China, and other countries in the world.
The university has 650 candidates of sciences, associate professors, doctoral studies in 16 specialties and postgraduate studies in 24 specialties, special councils for dissertation defense.