Lviv National Ivan Franko University (LNU): admission, faculty and reviews

Today in Ukraine there are more than 800 universities, among which a special place is occupied by one of the oldest higher educational institutions of Eastern Europe - the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko.

general information

According to data for 2014, nearly 14,000 students are being trained at LNU, of which just over 10,000 are on day training and about 3,500 are part-time students. In addition, 812 graduate students are preparing for theses. 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 sciences.

Lviv National University. Ivan Franko: how to get there

The main building of the LNU is located in a building in which, in the last quarter of the 19th century, the Marginal Sejm of the Krai was sitting. This majestic structure in the style of classicism is plastered in a light yellow color and decorated with columns, and on its pediment and portico you can see allegorical sculptural compositions "Work", "Education", etc. Also on its facade one can not help noticing the old motto of the University of Lviv in Latin , Which translates as "Educated Citizens - the Decoration of the Motherland." Address of the main building of LNU: st. Sichovyi Streltsy, 14, and the university's legal address is Universitetskaya Street, 1. In addition, on the street Dragomanova, in house 50, the electronics department is located. To get to the street Sichovyh archers, you can use trams running on routes 1 and 9, or route taxis number 29 and number 29a.

Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko: history

LNU has such an interesting and eventful history that even for its brief presentation it will take more than one page. Suffice it to say that it was founded on the basis of a Jesuit college, operating in Lviv since 1608. In 1661, King Jan II Casimir signed an act granting this university the rights of the university. Thus, until 1773 Lviv University was under the guidance of the Jesuits, and the main subjects were considered theology, philosophy and Latin. After the entry of Galicia into the Habsburg Empire, the activity of the Jesuit society, as well as of other Catholic orders, was discontinued, and the teaching began to be conducted in the Ukrainian language. A century later, Ivan Franko, a well-known writer and politician, whose name was given to LNU (then Leningrad State University) in 1940, was trained in the walls of Lviv University. In the last decades of the 20th century, within the framework of university modernization, modern educational technologies were introduced and several new departments were opened, which can not but please teachers and students.

Faculties of Lviv University

In the LNU. Ivan Franko has 17 faculties, including biological, geological, geographical, applied mathematics and computer science, economic, electronics, journalism, historical, foreign languages, culture and art, international relations, physical, philosophical, legal, chemical, philological and mechanico-mathematical. In their composition there are 112 departments, and with some of them there are museums. For example, the Zoological Museum operates on the basis of the biological faculty, based on the cabinet of natural history, which was opened in 1784, and at 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 the LNU

In addition to the above, Lviv National Ivan Franko University has in its composition a whole range of scientific institutions. For example, it has a botanical garden, an astronomical observatory, a museum of university history, information technology centers of the Nordic countries and humanitarian research, scientific institutes of French studies, Slavic studies, European integration and many others. Of educational institutions of the LNU, the Pedagogical and Law Colleges, the Italian Language Center and the Classical Gymnasium deserve special mention.

Rules of admission to LNU

The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv accepts applicants for bachelor's studies. For this it is necessary to apply to the university certificates of ZNO in 3 subjects, determined by the conditions for admission to universities of Ukraine in 2014, depending on the specific specialty chosen by the applicant. At the same time, since the Lviv National University, named after I. Franko, is included in the research category, he has the right to independently determine the list of competitive subjects.

International cooperation and training of foreign citizens

LNU named after I. Franko has been actively participating in student exchange programs and teaching staff for several years. Annually more than a hundred students listen to a course of lectures on a wide range of subjects in foreign universities. Moreover, the students of the historical and geographical faculties study at the universities of Poland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and the Czech Republic, and the staff of the Philology, Mechanics and Mathematics, Chemical Departments, the Faculty of International Relations, and the Faculties of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, The institutions of Poland, France, Colombia, Switzerland and Austria. As for foreign students, a summer school for students from the United States is held annually (with a grant from the United States government and with the assistance of the University of Kansas), which takes place six weeks in the LNU in the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language.

Famous graduates and professors

Lviv National University. I. Franco, who will soon celebrate his 350th anniversary, is an 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 Ukraine. For example, in addition to Ivan Franko, he was graduated: the famous Ukrainian poet Bogdan Lepky, the creator of the first effective anti-typhoid vaccine Rudolf Weigl, author of the term "genocide" - Rafael Lemkin, one of the pioneers of modern probability theory - Mark Katz and many others. No less "starry" is the professorial composition of the LNU. In different years, the university was taught by 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 rating among universities of Ukraine

Lviv Ivan Franko University has repeatedly received high marks from renowned foreign scientists and held high levels in various ratings. So, in 2008, according to Ukrainian employers, the university took the fourth place, and in 2012 - the sixth stage of the ranking of Webometrics among Ukrainian universities. At the same time, those who already have a diploma of LNU, argue that the knowledge gained within its walls helped them to achieve rapid career growth, as well as continue their studies in the most famous universities in Europe and the United States.

student life

Students of various faculties of the LNU publish several newspapers, including electronic ones, organize general university competitions on the quiz "What? Where? When?".