Sumy National Agrarian University

Sumy National Agrarian University is a higher educational establishment with level – IV of accreditation; it is one of the best agrarian universities in Ukraine. Sumy National Agrarian University was founded in 1977; for 40 years of its existence, it has gone from the Sumy branch of Kharkiv Agricultural Institute named after V.V. Dokuchaiev to a powerful educational establishment of national importance.

Sumy National Agrarian University trains highly qualified specialists for agriculture with a profound learning of foreign languages ​​and computer science. The structure of the University includes 8 faculties, one Institute and five colleges.Nowadays large agricultural joint-stock companies and processing enterprises of Ukraine need highly-qualified specialists, capable to work on the new technologies. Students of Sumy National Agrarian University get theoretical knowledge and use it in practice at leading agricultural enterprises of Ukraine and foreign countries our University cooperates with.

Our students have the unique opportunity to go abroad and to work on the agricultural farms in England, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, the USA, Australia, the Netherlands; it greatly increases their professional level and helps them to be employed at leading agricultural and processing enterprises of Ukraine.

There are about 11,000 students at the university. At the University there is a conception of unremitting computerization: we have 1,000 computer seats and the amount of contact display time spent by each student, depending on his or her speciality, is 250-350 hours. Students and teachers have the opportunity to get information about new achievements of science through the international information network Internet. There is a local computer network at the University.

Scientific and research work is conducted in 19 research laboratories; we have 26 specialities for postgraduate students. Research Institute of Potato-breeding in the north-eastern region of Ukraine was founded at the Department of plant-breeding and seed-production.