Kherson State University

Kherson State University
Херсонський державний університет
MottoSapere aude!
Established1917
RectorAleksander Spivakovsky
Students5929
Location,
Websitewww.kspu.edu

Kherson State University is one of the oldest universities in southern Ukraine, and acts as a centre of educational, scientific, pedagogical, and cultural activities.

As of 2024, Kherson State University is attended by approximately 8000 students from 23 regions of Ukraine and other CIS countries. Its faculty and staff include 18 academicians, various members of Ukrainian and foreign academies of science, 68 professors, 234 senior lecturers, 650 post-graduate students, and about 1000 lecturers and employees. Kherson State conducts scientific-educational work with institutes of higher education located in Kyiv, Odessa, and the Crimea. Its campus contains 4 educational buildings and laboratories, agricultural and biological research stations, a library, recreation zones on the Dnipro bank and on the Black Sea shore, a students' café, a students' club, a sports club, an observatory, three gymnasiums, two conference halls, and an agricultural machinery building.[citation needed]