National Pharmaceutical University

National Pharmaceutical University took its rise in 1805 from the chemical-pharmaceutical laboratory of Kharkov university, further Kharkiv pharmaceutical institute (1921), Ukrainian academy of pharmacy (1992), Ukrainian national academy of pharmacy (1999). On September, 18, 2002 by the Decree of the President of Ukraine the Academy got the status of National university of pharmacy.

Giving the status of the national establishment of Ukraine to University is the recognition as its past achievements, so its present role in training professionals for pharmaceutical, medical, chemical-technological, biotechnological branches and specialists in quality management, economists and management for the other branches of Ukrainian economy.

At the structure of University there are 5 faculties, chemical-pharmaceutical college, institute of pharmacy specialists' professional skills improvement, scientific-methodical (scientific-researching) laboratory for the problems of pharmaceutical education, state scientific-researching of drug quality control, central scientific-researching laboratory, clinical-diagnostic center, publishing and computer centers.

At University 6 directions and 14 specialities are licensed, for which they conduct training of 10000 future professionals, including pharmacy, medicine, chemical technology and engineering, economics and business, management, specific categories of training, some of them have no analogues in countries of CIS and Europe.

More than 20000 professionals have obtained higher education in University.
During 37 years University trains specialists for the foreign countries. More than 3 000 specialists are trained for 73 countries of the world.
The educational process is provided by 467 lecturers, including 62 Doctors of sciences, professors and 273 Candidates of sciences, assistant-professors. Among the lecturers there are associate-member of NASc of Ukraine, 8 Honored scientists and technicians of Ukraine, 2 State prize-winners of Ukraine, 2 Honored inventors of Ukraine.

Besides, 15 full members and associate-members of the branch academies work in University. Work of 3 employees is conferred with state awards.
University is situated in 8 educational-laboratory buildings of 52000 m2 area, has 5 hostels with the general area of 29367 m2, and training sports complex of 2894,9 m2 area. The educational space for one full-time student(considering average annual quantity) amounts to 15 m2.

Nowadays National Pharmaceutical University is the largest state educational establishment of Ukraine, which is the source of providing intellectual part of personnel of the pharmaceutical branch and supporting ones. For the years of independence University became the recognized leading multi-profile educational-methodic and scientific center of Ukraine. University is recognized as one of the best by the rating of higher educational establishments of Ministry of public health of Ukraine.

The scientists of University for the years of activity published more than 15 monographs, 71 text-books, 405 methodical aids, prepared 8 versions of electronic text-books for distance education, obtained more than 700 certificates of authority and 143 patents of invention, defended 81 Doctor and 480 Candidate theses, developed and introduced 127 medicines.

University has representations in 10 regions of Ukraine and abroad, initiated creation of pharmaceutical faculties at medical universities of Bukovina, Vinnitza, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetzk, Crimea, Lugansk, Odessa and Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopyl medical academies.

On the base of University there are scientific-methodic commission of pharmaceutical education of Ministry of science and education of Ukraine and "Pharmacy" problem commission of Ministry of public health of Ukraine, 4 scientific journals are published, there are also clinical base of State pharmacological center of Ministry of public health of Ukraine, magistracy, post-graduate study, doctor's degree study, Specialized scientific council for Candidate and Doctor theses defense.