Kryvyi Rih National University

Kryvyi Rih National University
Криворізький національний університет
TypePublic
Established2011 (1922 as Technic University)
PresidentYuriy Vilkul
RectorMykola Stupnik[1]
Academic staff
900
Students20,000
Location,
Ukraine
Campusurban
Colors
Websiteknu.edu.ua/

Kryvyi Rih National University (Ukrainian: Криворізький національний університет, romanizedKryvorizkyi natsionalnyi universytet), colloquially known as KNU (Ukrainian: КНУ), is located in Kryvyi Rih, one of the main industrial cities of Ukraine. Currently, its structure consists of seven faculties (academic departments) and five institutes. It was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet Union era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University,[2] State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy (a branch of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine at that moment). It is ranked as one of the best universities in Ukraine in many rankings (see below).

  1. ^ Owners and beneficiaries of КНУ. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
  2. ^ "Історія КНУ". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.