Organization
At present the student body of Kiev University totals about 20,000 students; this number includes students at the Institute of International Relations which is attached to Kiev University as a faculty of almost two thousand strong.
Kiev University maintains contacts with many universities and research centres throughout the world.
The newly acquired independence of and changing situation in Ukraine have put forward new requirements to Kiev University which is contributing to the all Ukrainian effort to create a radically new political, social and economic structure in the country. Kiev University is obliged to improve its system of training specialists since its graduates are to work in various segments of the political, social and economic system of independent Ukraine. Kiev University graduates are expected to be highly qualified, patriotic and aware of the tasks facing the new Ukraine; they must be open to the national ideals, and feel responsible for what they are required to do; they are expected to be able to demonstrate a creative approach in solving the pressing problems of today and tomorrow, and to think in terms of long-term and wide-ranging reforms. In other words, we are striving to achieve a truly universal character in the training of our specialists. We believe this can be achieved through engaging the most talented minds into the university educational system; we should involve the most talented scholars and scientists in the academic process at the same time providing them with adequate means by which to sustain their selfless efforts and endeavour; we must do our best to protect them from unnecessary and at times incompetent control on the part of certain government bodies. To do this successfully, Kiev University has to acquire the status of an independent educational establishment.
These are the 14 departments in which the university is divided into:
- Department of Biology
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Cybernetics
- Department of Geography
- Department of Geology
- Department of Economics
- Department of History
- Department of Law
- Department of Mechanics and Mathematics
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Physics
- Department of Radiophysics
- Department of Sociology and Psychology
- Preparatory Department