National Technical University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), which was founded in 1898, is one of the most famous educational institutions in Ukraine and one of the biggest technical universities in Europe. The Association of Sugar Mill Owners, who were from southwest Russia, provided the majority of the 2.6 million rouble funding for the university. There were only four colleges when KPI first opened: Mechanics, Engineering, Agriculture, and Chemistry. KPI is currently the biggest university in Ukraine, with tens of thousands of students. There are 29 university colleges with specialisations in both science and the arts, and the majority of degrees are available in English, Ukrainian, or Russian. There are two primary campuses at KPI. The Knowledge Square, an open space in the heart of Kiev, serves as the focal point of the first. 9,000 students from outside the city are also housed on this campus, which also has a 1,750-seat assembly hall and a number of sports facilities. The other campus is located in Slavutych, a town in the north that was created specifically as a colony for residents who were evacuated after the Chernobyl tragedy in 1986. KPI was the first university in Ukraine to accredit with the Association of European Universities, and it has collaborated with organisations all over the world. One such partnership is a student exchange programme that enables students to study abroad for a semester through the University of Oregon in the US. Particularly in the scientific sciences, the university has a history of generating some very notable individuals. The first graduates of KPI included Evgeny Paton, the creator of electrical welding, and other notable alumni include Valeriya Hontaryeva, the head of the Ukrainian National Bank, and Sergei Korolev, a Soviet rocket engineer who was a key figure in the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s.