Chernivtsi University

Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
TypePublic
Established4 October 1875
ChancellorRoman Ivanovych Petryshyn[1]
Students19,227
Location
Chernivtsi
,
Ukraine
AffiliationsEUA
Websitewww.chnu.edu.ua
University rankings
Regional – Overall
QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia[2]301-350 (2022)

Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukrainian: Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City of Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine. One of the leading Ukrainian institutions for higher education, it was founded in 1875 as the Franz-Josephs-Universität Czernowitz when Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) was the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina, a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary. Today the university is based at the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans building complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011.

  1. ^ "Власники та бенеціфіціари ЧНУ".
  2. ^ "QS World University Rankings-Emerging Europe & Central Asia". Retrieved 15 January 2023.