Kamianets-Podilskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University was originally established in 1918 as Kamianets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University. In 1997 it became a state pedagogical university and in 2003 it gained the status of a state university. In 2008 it was renamed after Ivan Ohiienko, a Ukrainian Orthodox cleric, historian and linguist.
As its name suggests, the university is located in Kamianets-Podilskyi, a city in western Ukraine. Kamianets-Podilskyi sits along the Smotrych River, which has formed a natural moat around the city.
The university is divided into nine faculties: the faculty of economics, faculty of foreign philology, faculty of history, faculty of physics and mathematics, faculty of pedagogics, faculty of Ukrainian philology and journalism, faculty of natural sciences, faculty of physical training, and the faculty of correctional and social pedagogics and psychology. Each faculty is subdivided into a number of departments, which offer both undergraduate and graduate degree programmes.
The Office for International Cooperation oversees the university’s international activities. It is responsible for developing partnerships with other higher education institutions around the world to facilitate academic and scientific exchanges.
The university currently has partnerships with institutions in countries including Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Poland, and Lithuania. Students are given the opportunity to study abroad in these countries for a semester or a full academic year as part of the university’s Erasmus programme.
