Kyiv national linguistic university

Kyiv National Linguistic University is a recognized leader of higher linguistic education in Ukraine. It is a powerful research and academic institution where new methods of foreign languages teaching have been developed, piloted and applied for about sixty years, along with fundamental and applied research in many areas: linguistics, literary studies, intercommunication, translation, pedagogy, linguodidactics, cognitive studies, psychology, applied linguistics, computer studies, management, and law studies.

The national university status enables KNLU to implement important research projects, introduce new information technologies into the teaching and learning process, develop multiple contacts with universities and research centers of many countries of the world.

Kyiv National Linguistic University is a successor of Kyiv State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages, founded in 1948. For more than 60 years the institution has been developing foreign language teaching in Ukraine, and it gained its wide recognition and great prestige as a higher education establishment in mid-nineties upon acquiring a university status.

The University has trained over twenty-five thousand specialists in teaching, translation, psychology, management. More than 600 persons were granted Doctor of Sciences and Candidate of Sciences Degrees. Among the university alumni you can find politicians, writers, legislators, public servants, university / college rectors, vice-rectors, deans, heads of departments, lecturers and researchers, school headmasters and honoured teachers, journalists, and well-known entrepreneurs.

Today over 7000 students, including 500 international students, study at the University's 7 faculties. KNLU is the only higher learning institution in Ukraine where students can choose from 13 European languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian and Ukrainian) and 9 Oriental languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Vietnamese, Hebrew).

The Linguistic University offers Bachelor, Specialist and Master graduation programmes in 8 major specializations. Depending on their individual circumstances and preferences, students can choose a convenient form of education: full-time attendance, evening attendance, learning by correspondence, or external learning.

High quality teaching is provided by more than 600 faculty members, including Academicians, Honoured Educators of Ukraine, Doctors of Sciences, Professors, Candidates of Sciences (Ph. D), Associate Professors. The teaching and research process is administered and coordinated by 33 University departments.

FACULTY OF GERMANIC PHILOLOGY trains teachers of English, German, Polish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech and a second foreign language (German, French, Spanish or English); teachers of English and Ukrainian and foreign literature; teachers of the English language and applied psychology; teachers of the English language and psychology;

FACULTY OF ROMANCE PHILOLOGY trains teachers of French, Spanish and a second foreign language (English, French and Spanish).

FACULTY OF TRANSLATION trains translators and interpreters from English, German, French, Italian, Modern Greek; provides in-depth learning of several foreign languages. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW trains managers and lawyers with the command of two Western European languages. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES trains interpreters, translators from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Vietnamese as well as teachers of Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew and English. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

FACULTY OF SLAVIC PHILOLOGY admits international students. It trains teachers of the Ukrainian language and literature, the Russian language and literature and a Western European language (English, German, French and Spanish), as well as translators and interpreters from Ukrainian, Russian, English, German, French and Spanish. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

FACULTY OF POST-DIPLOMA EDUCATION offers training-internship in foreign languages and teaching methods, and a refresher course on "Management of Education". Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

ORIENTATION FACULTY offers orientation classes for senior secondary school students who are interested in studying foreign languages and plan to enter KNLU. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

PREPARATORY FACULTY FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS provides training in Ukrainian and Russian for those who plan to enter a Ukrainian institution of higher education. Tuition is financed through a commercial contract.

KNLU has 3 educational buildings where classes are held, 4 student dormitories, a computerized library with more than 1 million books in storage, 10 computer classes for 300 students, a sport center, a canteen and buffets.

The University maintains wide contacts with many counterparts: The Pedagogical Institute of Schwäbisch-Gmünd and Dresden Technical University (Germany), L'Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, L'Universite Blaise Pascal and L'Universite Sorbonne (Paris III) (France), Lancaster University and Birmingham University (Great Britain), Cairo University (Egypt), Shanghai Foreign Languages University (People's Republic of China). The University closely cooperates with the Institute for Pedagogics of Opolie University and Krakow Higher School for Pedagogics (Poland).

Due to the assistance of the Embassies of France, Italy, Hungary, Japan, Korea and Iran modern Culture and Language Centers of the related countries were established at the university, thus enabling Ukrainian students to get acquainted with the countries' rich cultural heritage, customs, traditions and current political and economic developments.

KNLU is a member of the International Association of Universities (IAU). The University is a member of the following international scientific and educational organizations: IATEFL – International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (London, England); ESSE – European Society for the Study of English (Köln, Germany); TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Washington, the USA); AAS – International Association of American Standard Research (Salzburg, Austria); EIAG – European International Association of Germanists (Brussels, Belgium); ADPLF – International Association of the Teachers of French (Paris, France); AFAL – International French Association of Friendship and Connections (Paris, France).