Криворізький національний університет | ||||
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| Type | Public | |||
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| Established | 2011 (1922 as Technic University) | |||
| President | Yuriy Vilkul | |||
| Rector | Mykola Stupnik[1] | |||
Academic staff | 900 | |||
| Students | 20,000 | |||
| Location | , Ukraine | |||
| Campus | urban | |||
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| Website | knu.edu.ua/ | |||
Kryvyi Rih National University (Ukrainian: Криворізький національний університет, romanized: Kryvorizkyi 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).
- ^ Owners and beneficiaries of КНУ. Retrieved April 30, 2023.
- ^ "Історія КНУ". Archived from the original on 22 March 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.