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NATIONAL TRANSPORT UNIVERSITY
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Ladies and gentlemen!
This is a booklet of National Transport University, one of the
leading higher educational establishments in Ukraine.
This booklet is about achievements and prospects of development
of the University.
NTU has traditions and high scientific and pedagogical potential
which gives the opportunity to look for new effective ways for training specialists and the
improvement of teaching methods.
The University has had significant experience of educational renovation in such directions as
level training, development of integrated curricula, training students in unconventional
specialisms and humanization of education.
Today the University trains young creative specialists who will be engaged in fundamental and
applied researches in traditional and new directions of science and technology.
The University postgraduate and doctorate courses as well as wide contacts of scientists with
scientific establishments of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and foreign educational
partners create the opportunity to train highly qualified specialists.
National Transport University is always ready for contacts and cooperation with transport
enterprises, organizations and educational establishments both in Ukraine and abroad.
We welcome talented youth to NTU.
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Sincerely yours
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M.F. Dmytrychenko
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The history of National Transport University began on 7 November, 1944. Kyiv Motor Car and Road
Construction Institute was founded in the capital of Ukraine since motor transport and a developed
network of motorways played an important role in national economy, especially in the post-war period.
At first there were only two faculties: Road construction and Motor-mechanical which trained
specialists with a degree in the following specialisms: motorways, bridges, motor-cars and motor
facilities, road-building machines and mechanizms. In August 1944, after the state accreditation
the Institute became a University and got the highest fourth level of accreditation and the name
of Ukrainian Transport University and on 11 September, 2000 under the Ukrainian President's
decree N 1059 the University got the national status. Thanks to the history we know a lot
about outstanding scientists such as M. Lavrentyev, Yu. Dadenkov, A. Vasylenko, V. Rojtar, O. Sigov,
O. Penkov, E. Veryzhenko, the specialists in the sphere of motor transport and road construction,
Ye. Borzakivsky, M. Ivaschenko, Ya. Nesvitsky, I. Lujk, K. Terenetsky, M. Tovstolis, Ya. Livshits,
Ya. Syunyui, V. Zavorytsky and others.
Now the University is one of the leading educational scientific establishments. Nearly 40.000
highly qualified specialists have been taught here in the years of its existence. They have made
a great contribution to the development of national road and bridge technologies, national
motor transport and now they take an active part in the development of a Ukrainian independent
state. Among the graduates of the University there are highly qualified engineers, managers,
leading specialists of ministries and government departments, trusts, business concerns, firms,
project and research institutes, transport educational establishments.
On the basis of the University a specialized Council of Ministry of Education and Science of
Ukraine works. It is in charge of considering the possibility and expediency of issuing licences
for training specialists in other educational establishments. There is also a scientific methodological
commission on transport technologies in NTU.
Today 4 faculties of the University - general engineering, motor mechanical, road construction,
transport management and pre-degree foundation course of Bachelor of science, specialist and Master
of science train 6,000 students.
The University graduates students in 28 specialisms:
- professional study, maintenance and repair of city transport;
- enterprise economics;
- enterprise management (specialization - management in transport engineering,
transport management, management in motor service);
- law (specialization - transport law);
- environmental protection and ecology;
- information management systems and technologies;
- internal combustion engine;
- wheeled and crawler vehicles(specialization - motor industry);
- hoisting, construction and road building machines, meliorative machines and equipment;
- motor vehicles and facilities;
- highways and airfields(specialization - construction and usage of airfields);
- bridges and traffic tunnels;
- technology of building constructions, products and materials;
- traffic engineering;
- transport systems (specialization - city transport systems, freight transport systems);
- transport and transport management (specialization-international road transport,
customs control, transport and transport management).
Four institutes work in the structure of the University. They are the Institute of correspondence
and distance learning, the Research institute of transport and construction technologies and
the Institute of pre-University training and international cooperation and the Institute of
transport economics and business, which carry out further training of almost 2,500 specialists
in 24 areas every year.
A department of further training was also opened on the following specialisms: market economy,
enterprise management, taxes and taxation. Students can get a second higher education in all
specialisms of the University.
The students are taught by highly qualified professors, 80 per cent of them have ranks and academic
degrees. Among them there are 25 academicians and member-correspondents of the Academy of Sciences
and of some branch academies, 6 Honoured workers of Science and Technology of Ukraine, 8 laureates
of the Ukrainian State reward, 5 Honoured workers of the Ukrainian transport , 4 Honoured workers
of the National education of Ukraine.
We aimed to educate specialists to the higher standards enabling them to work at the cutting
edge of highly effective transport practice when we organized the faculty of Transport Management
and the following new departments: enterprise management, transport systems and marketing, economics
and informatics, organization of enterprises, industrial systems and service on transport,
transport law, systems analysis and logistics, constitutional and administrative law. The
University curricula of these departments are designed to train specialists who will be able
to manage country's market economy.
Students can choose between different professionally oriented subjects such as: microeconomics,
macroeconomics, management of foreign economic activity, project analysis, banks, audit, marketing
and this will result in extending their knowledge.
As Academic Council of the University is concerned to increase scientific potential efficiency
and to involve University scientists in carrying out researches of state importance it has given
top priority to the following spectrum of researches:
- progressive systems and methods of improving tractive and high speed, economical and ecological
characteristics of cars;
- reliability and systematic efficiency of motor cars, road-building machines, ensured by the
development of methods, modes, technologies of their production, repair and maintenance;
- mechanics of transport facilities and constructions;
- progressive directions of transport building development under the conditions of transition
to market economy;
- problems of formation of rational transport systems and effective functioning of their
constituents in market economy;
- modern information technologies and technical means in education.
Scientific researchers have made contribution to continuing professional development of the
teaching staff and improvement of training future specialists. Some researches have been widely
recognized and awarded State prizes in science and technology of Ukraine.
The University integrates with academic science. Scientists of the University have extensive
contacts with the following leading scientific institutions of the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine: Institute of Electric Welding named after Paton, Institutes of gas, mechanics, problems
of materials, super-strong materials, general and inorganic chemistry of water etc. Nowadays contacts
with scientific institution of the Academy acquire new sense. This is proved by a contract concerning
research cooperation between the Institute of Electric Welding named after Paton and NTU.
Emphasis is placed on postgraduate education. Postgraduate course and doctorate course make it
possible to prepare highly qualified specialists. For the last 5 years about 100 specialists have
graduated from postgraduate course and 12 specialists wrote doctorate dissertations. The University
has 4 specialized Academic Councils on defending Doctors' and Candidates' dissertations which attest
high qualification of Ukrainian scientists.
Two inter-departmental journals are published in NTU: 'Highways and Road Building', 'Hydraulics and
Hydrautechnics'. The collection of scientific issues of National Transport University has been
published since 1995, and since 1997-Bulletin of Transport Academy of Ukraine and National Transport
University.
The University has contacts with universities, scientific institutions in the CIS, Poland, the USA,
Germany, Slovakiya and so on.
Almost one third of the students do research work. Students use the results of investigations in
diploma and course papers. Dozens of students have become laureates of student competitions,
Olimpiads, participants of republican scientific conferences. The most talented of them do a
Master course and are enrolled on a post graduate course.
Departments of the University have computing facilities. Laboratories are equipped with modern
research machinery, stands and devices. During study and practice students are trained vocationally
and they can get licences of a driver, an operator of road-building machines, a computer operator
and so on. The reading rooms and learning resource fund meet students' demands completely. Cars and
road machines are widely used on training ground. There is a department of military training at the
University for both students of our university and students of other institutions of higher learning.
The latter can get military training on the contracts basis.
A large sport center with a swimming pool is always at students' and teachers' disposal. There are
sport clubs that provide training in18 kinds of sports. The most popular of them is a motorclub.
Motorcyclists of the university have won prizes at republican, international competitions many times.
There are more than 40 masters of sports. The international students motor-race for the University
Cup is a traditional event. The University has a summer sports and recreation centre. There is an
opportunity for students to take part in amateur art activities. Skiffle groups and teams of KVK
are the most popular. Hostels for non-resident students, an aid post and students' policlinics are
available for students. Those who are in need of medical treatment can get a place in a sanatorium.
Part of the expenditure is paid by Trade Union of the University.
With transport playing a vital role in modern economies all over the world, we are priviledged to
be involved in transport.
Welcome !
National Transport University situated in the centre of Kyiv at Pechersk by address:
01010, Ukraine, Kyiv-10, 1 Suvorov St.
telephones: 8(044) 2802014, 2805409
fax: 8(044) 2808203
E-mail: general@ntu.kiev.ua
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