Today, more than 800 universities operate in Ukraine, among which one of the oldest higher educational institutions in Eastern Europe, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, occupies a special place.
General information
As of 2014, almost 14,000 students study at LNU, of which just over 10,000 are full-time students and about 3,500 are part-time students. In addition, 812 graduate students are preparing for the defense of dissertations. As for the scientific and teaching staff, out of 1,500 teachers, 536 are associate professors, 157 are professors, 612 are candidates of science and 131 are doctors of science.
Lviv National University. Ivana Franko: how to get there
The main building of the LNU is located in the building where the Regional Galician Seim met in the last quarter of the 19th century. This majestic classicist building is plastered in light yellow and decorated with columns, and on its pediment and portico you can see allegoricalsculptural compositions "Work", "Education", etc. Also on its facade one cannot fail to notice the old motto of Lviv University in Latin, which translates as "Educated citizens are the decoration of the Motherland." Address of the main building of LNU: st. Sich Riflemen, 14, and the legal address of the university is Universitetskaya Street, 1. In addition, the Faculty of Electronics is located on Drahomanov Street, at 50. To get to Sich Riflemen Street, you can use trams running along routes 1 and 9, or fixed-route taxis number 29 and number 29a.
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv: history
LNU has such an interesting and eventful history that even a summary of it would take more than one page. Suffice it to say that it was founded on the basis of the Jesuit Collegium, which has been operating in Lviv since 1608. In 1661, King Jan II Casimir signed an act granting this educational institution the rights of a university. Thus, until 1773 Lviv University was under the leadership of the Jesuits, and theology, philosophy and Latin were considered the main subjects. After the entry of Galicia into the Habsburg Empire, the activities of the Jesuit society, as well as other Catholic orders, were discontinued, and teaching began to be conducted in Ukrainian. A century later, the well-known writer and politician Ivan Franko, whose name was given to LNU (then LSU) in 1940, studied at Lviv University. In recent decadesIn the 20th century, as part of the modernization of the university, modern educational technologies were introduced here and several new departments were opened, which cannot but please teachers and students.
Faculties of Lviv University
IN LNU them. Ivan Franko has 17 faculties, including biological, geological, geographical, applied mathematics and computer science, economics, electronics, journalism, history, foreign languages, culture and art, international relations, physical, philosophical, legal, chemical, philological and mechanical and mathematical. They include 112 departments, and some of them have museums. For example, the Faculty of Biology operates the Zoological Museum, based on the Cabinet of Natural History, opened in 1784, and the Faculty of History - the Archaeological Museum, which is considered one of the famous sights of the city of Lviv.
Scientific and educational institutions operating under LNU
In addition to the above mentioned, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv has a number of other scientific institutions. For example, it has a botanical garden, an astronomical observatory, a museum of the history of the university, information technology centers for the countries of Northern Europe and humanitarian research, scientific institutes for French studies, Slavic studies, European integration, and many others. Of the educational institutions of the LNU, the Pedagogical and Law Colleges, the Italian Language Center andClassical gymnasium.
Rules for admission to LNU
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv accepts applicants for undergraduate studies. To do this, it is necessary to submit to the university certificates of ZNO in 3 subjects, determined by the conditions for admission to universities in Ukraine in 2014, depending on the specific speci alty chosen by the applicant. At the same time, since the Lviv National University, named after I. Franko, is classified as a research one, it has the right to independently determine the list of competitive subjects.
International cooperation and training of foreign citizens
I. Franko LNU has been actively participating in student and faculty exchange programs for more than a year. Every year more than a hundred students listen to a course of lectures on a wide range of disciplines in foreign universities. Moreover, students of the Faculty of History and Geography have an internship at the universities of Poland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic, and employees of the Philological, Mechanics and Mathematics, Chemistry Departments, the Faculty of International Relations, as well as the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics are trained in educational institutions in Poland, France, Colombia, Switzerland and Austria. As for international students, an annual summer school is held (with the support of the United States government and with the assistance of the University of Kansas) for students from the United States,undergoing a six-week internship at LNU in the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language.
Notable alumni and professors
Lviv National University. I. Franko, who will soon celebrate his 350th birthday, is the alma mother for hundreds of thousands of graduates. Among those who graduated from this university, there are many scientists, artists, politicians and businessmen who are known far beyond the borders of Ukraine. For example, besides Ivan Franko, the famous Ukrainian poet Bogdan Lepky, the creator of the first effective anti-typhoid vaccine Rudolf Weigl, the author of the term "genocide" - Rafael Lemkin, one of the pioneers of modern probability theory - Mark Katz and many others. No less "stellar" is the professorial staff of the LNU. Over the years, the university taught: the outstanding mathematician Stefan Banach, the representative of Poland in the League of Nations - Shimon Ashkenazy, the famous linguist - Jerzy Kurilovich, the famous Polish physicist - Marian Smoluchowski and many others.
Reviews about LNU and its ranking among Ukrainian universities
Ivan Franko University of Lviv has repeatedly received high marks from well-known foreign scientists and occupied high positions in various rankings. So, in 2008, according to Ukrainian employers, the university took the fourth place, and in 2012 - the sixth step of the Webometrics ranking among Ukrainian universities. At the same time, those who already have a LNU diploma claim that the knowledge gained in its walls helped them achieve rapid career growth, as well ascontinue your studies at the most famous universities in Europe and the USA.
Student life
Students of various faculties of LNU publish several newspapers, including electronic ones, and organize university-wide competitions in the quiz "What? Where? When?".
