NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY
DESCRIPTION
The history of pharmaceutical education in Kharkiv dates back to the beginning of the 19th century and connects with the Kharkiv Imperial University establishing, where a pharmaceutical laboratory was opened in 1812.
Almost a hundred years later, in 1921, in Kharkiv, which was a capital then, the first pharmaceutical institute was opened, which today, in the 21st century, under the brand “National University of Pharmacy”remains to be the only institution of higher education in the pharmaceutical industry in Ukraine.
The educational process of the University is carried out in 6 fields of knowledge and in 8 specialties in educational qualification levels as follows: junior specialist, specialist, educational degrees “bachelor”, “master”, educational-scientific degree of PhD.
The University’s staff equals almost 2 thousand of employees, including 617 scientific and pedagogical workers. 91% of scientific and pedagogical staff have scientific degrees.
In the structure of the University, except 6 faculties and 49 departments, there are also Institute of Qualification Improvement for Pharmacists, NUPh College, 5 Scientific and Research Laboratories, Clinical Diagnostic Center with Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory, Scientific and Methodological Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Education of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, 24 training laboratories, Center of distant learning technologies, Scientific library, Botanic garden, Sport and Health complex, Catering complex.
The National University of Pharmacy is a member of the European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP), the Federation of International Pharmacists (FIP), the Magna Charta Universitatum, the International Association of Universities (IAU). University researchers have individual membership in 50 professional organizations.
The international educational-scientific partnership is carried out with 77 institutions from 35 countries.
There are 22 scientific schools working at NUPh, scientists have created 161 drugs, three specialized scientific councils in the field of scientific specialties work: «Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy», «Pharmacology»; «Technology of Drugs, Organization of Pharmaceutical Business and Forensic Pharmacy», «Standardization and Organization of Medicines manufacturing».
LEVELS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
FORMS OF EDUCATION
LANGUAGES OF EDUCATION
TERMS OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS
STUDENT SETTLEMENT
Bachelor, Master, Doctor of Science, Ph.D.
Full-time, part-time, distant education.
Ukrainian, Russian, English.
The university holds an admission company twice a year.
Deadlines for submission of applications and documents:
From July 1 to November 1 - the beginning of the fall semester;
From January 1 to March 1 - the beginning of the winter semester.
NUPh hostel system is well-organized and equipped with everything you need for comfortable living conditions. 100% of arriving students are provided with accommodation in hostels.
NUPh campus includes:
6 hostels;
department of household maintenance and hostel service;
service on educational work and organization of students’ life;
settlement and student registration service.
In the hostels number 5 and number 6, students of NUPh college live. There is a Centre for Primary Health Care in NUPh hostel №1 – a health care institution has been working since 2004. The PHC Center provides urgent medical diagnostic and preventive care with modern methods to students and university staff where a preventive examination can be conducted; you can be examined and treated by therapists, gynecologists, dentists; doctors can measure your pressure, weight, height; do an electrocardiographic examination, blood tests, parenteral injections, preventive vaccinations, get physiotherapeutic and gynecological procedures. Much attention in the work of the Center for Psychosocial Medicine is paid to the education of students’ healthy lifestyle habits, the prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases, breaking harmful habits and contributes to the formation of responsibility for their health.
STUDENT SETTLEMENT
NUPh hostel system is well-organized and equipped with everything you need for comfortable living conditions. 100% of arriving students are provided with accommodation in hostels.
NUPh campus includes:
6 hostels;
department of household maintenance and hostel service;
service on educational work and organization of students’ life;
settlement and student registration service.
In the hostels number 5 and number 6, students of NUPh college live. There is a Centre for Primary Health Care in NUPh hostel №1 – a health care institution has been working since 2004. The PHC Center provides urgent medical diagnostic and preventive care with modern methods to students and university staff where a preventive examination can be conducted; you can be examined and treated by therapists, gynecologists, dentists; doctors can measure your pressure, weight, height; do an electrocardiographic examination, blood tests, parenteral injections, preventive vaccinations, get physiotherapeutic and gynecological procedures. Much attention in the work of the Center for Psychosocial Medicine is paid to the education of students’ healthy lifestyle habits, the prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases, breaking harmful habits and contributes to the formation of responsibility for their health.
UNIVERSITY STRUCTURE. INSTITUTES AND FACULTIES OF UNIVERSITY
Scientific and research activities of the University is an integral part of the educational activities and carried out to integrate scientific, educational and production activities in higher education. It is a complex multistage process, in which employees of the Departments and structural subdivisions take part:
43 University Departments;
6 Departments of the Institute of Pharmacy Professionals Qualification Improvement;
College of the NUPh;
Central Scientific-Research Laboratory;
State Scientific-Research Laboratory of the NUPh for Medicinal Substances Quality Control;
Clinical-Diagnostic Center of the NUPh with Laboratory of Clinical Diagnostics;
Problem-based Laboratory of Morphofunctional Researches;
Research Laboratory of Microbiological and Immunological Researches;
Research Laboratory of Parenteral and Oral Liquid Medicines;
Scientific Methodological Laboratory on Pharmaceutical Education;
Electrical Engineering and Electronics Laboratory;
Warehouse for storage of chemical agents and other educational support, educational management and administrative structural subdivisions.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY
CARRIES OUT PREPARATION OF APPLICANTS IN THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS
Foreign citizens’ training is carried out according to curriculum and programmes, developed and approved by NUPh for the faculty of foreign citizens’ training, or under individual plans and programmes, if it is stipulated by certain agreements and contracts.
PREPARATORY COURSE FOR FOREIGNERS AND MEMBERS WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP
Department of Fundamental and language training provides training for foreign citizens and stateless persons for admission to higher educational institutions. The educational process is carried out in accordance with the current program in three areas:
Biomedical;
Engineering;
Economics.
Disciplines: russian language, ukrainian language, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, regional geography, drawing, social and economic geography, economic fundamentals, fundamentals of Computer Science and Engineering. Employees of the department are involved in the preparation of educational and methodical literature, scientific activities, publication of articles in international, national and university scientific and methodological conferences.
Main directions of scientific activity: methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language, teaching methodology of natural sciences for foreign students, linguistics, literary studies, psychology.
Particular attention is paid to career-oriented work, which allows not only to increase the number of students of pre-university training, but also the number of foreigners who wish to study in NUPh .
The Department actively organizes excursions to leading departments of the university, scientific laboratories and libraries. First practice sessions on relevant departments of the university.
The educational process at the department successfully completes extracurricular educational work with foreign students: conversation, themed tours, visits to museums and theaters, hiking and evening concerts.
The staff attentively treat each individual listener, because the understanding and empathy inherent in the teachers of the department of fundamental and language training allows, in turn, to increase the number of students choosing to study at the NUPh.
LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE BACHELOR PROGRAM
SPECIALITY
051 «Enterprise Economics»
073 «Management»
075 «Marketing»
162 «Biotechnology»
224 «Laboratory diagnostics»
227 «Physical Therapy»
LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE MASTER PROGRAM
SPECIALITY / SPECIALIZATION
226 «Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy»
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Pharmacy
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Clinical Pharmacy
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Technologies of Pharmaceuticals
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Technology of perfumery and cosmetics
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Cosmetology
224 «Technologies of medical diagnostics and treatment»
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Laboratory diagnostics
162 «Biotechnology and Bioengineering»
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Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
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Industrial Biotechnology
051 «Economics»
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Enterprise Economics
075 «Marketing"
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Marketing
073 «Management»
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Management of organizations and administration (by types of economic activity)
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Healthcare Management and Pharmaceutical Business
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Clinical Research Management
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Logistics
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Quality, Standardization and Certification
281 «Public Management and Administration»
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Administrative Management
011 «Educational, pedagogical sciences»
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Pedagogy of high school
226 «Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy»
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Pharmaceutical Marketing and Administration
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Clinical Studies
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Assessment of Health Care Technologies
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Pharmaceutical Jurisprudence
LIST OF THE SPECIALTIES FOR ADMISSION IN STUDIES AT THE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM
SPECIALITY
226 «Pharmacy» (PhD)
222 «Medicine» (PhD)
091 «Biology» (PhD)
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED TRAINING OF PHARMACY SPECIALISTS (IATPS)
The Institute for Advanced Training of Pharmacy Specialists is a structural unit of the National University of Pharmacy is one of the oldest and elite higher education institutions in Ukraine. The mission of the Institute is to provide educational services for the continuous professional development of pharmacists through the implementation of a competency-oriented model of pharmaceutical education.
The Institute for Advanced Training of Pharmacy Specialists (IATPS) fully covers the needs of continuous graduate education of practitioners of the pharmaceutical industry of Ukraine, beginning with their primary specialization (internship). There have been more than 70 thousand students during the course of the Institute’s postgraduate training.
The Institute has a modern educational and methodological and material base, highly skilled scientific and pedagogical staff, which ensure the educational process in accordance with the modern requirements of higher education.
IATPS today consists of 2 faculties (advanced training and postgraduate education), they include 6 departments, 3 of them are the main departments in the Ministry of Health of Ukraine: Pharmacology and Economics; General Pharmacy and Drug Safety; Quality, Standardization and Certification of medicines. The Institute employs 63 scientific and pedagogical workers, including 10 professors, 12 doctors of sciences, 37 associate professors, 48 candidates of sciences. Except the main staff, leading specialists of the practical component of health protection are accepted – pharmacy service, drug control, drug production, lawyers, economists, etc. are employed to work at the institute.