International Students Office
Address: 72, Nauky Avenue, Dnipro, 49045, Ukraine,
Phone: +38 (056) 374-98-16
E-mail: int.education.dnu@gmail.com
Working hours:
Monday – Friday: 8:00 – 16:30
Lunch break: 12:00 – 13:00
Structure of the department:
- Voronov Viktor – Head of the Office;
- Lashko Viktoriia – Senior Inspector;
- Kysilyova Evgeniia – Inspector;
- Zapryvoda Olena – Inspector.
The International Students Office is a structural unit of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU). The Office is directly subordinated to the University`s Rector and Vice-Rector for International Relations.
The Office follows the Constitution of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine «On Education», «On Higher Education», «On the Legal Status of Foreigners and Stateless Persons», decrees of the President of Ukraine and resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, orders of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Statute of DNU, as well as other regulatory legal acts and the Regulations on the International Students Office.
Training of international students started at DNU in 1989.
In August 1989, the Dean's Office on the Work with International Students started functioning. First foreign citizens from Mali, Zimbabwe, Peru, the Czech Republic and Laos arrived to study at DNU on the 1st of September, 1989. Nowadays, the unit of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University functions as the International Students Office. It was founded on the basis of the Dean's Office on the Work with International Students in 2007.
Admission of foreigners for study at DNU grounds on the international treaties of Ukraine with other countries, the treaties of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine with ministries of education of other countries, and contracts between DNU and international organizations and firms.
Foreigners arriving at DNU start their studies at the Preparatory Department, founded in 1991. During the preliminary training at the Preparatory Department, the main goal is forming knowledge and skills to secure further successful studying of international students in Ukraine's HEIs as well as the creation of all necessary conditions for fast adaptation to the new social and cultural environment.
The Preparatory Department provides preliminary training in engineering, technical, economic, health safety and biology, and humanitarian spheres of study. Subjects studied at the Preparatory Department are the Ukrainian Language, History of Ukraine, Biology, Fundamentals of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Fundamentals of Informatics and Computer Techniques, Drawing, Fundamentals of Economics, and Economic and Social Geography, etc.
Main tasks:
- recruitment of international students to study at DNU;
- ensuring organizational and legal support for the process of training specialists for foreign countries;
- carrying out analytical and forecasting activities to encourage foreigners to study at DNU;
- conducting an advertising campaign to attract foreigners to study at DNU.
Main functions:
In the field of educational activities:
- providing consultations to foreign citizens regarding admission to DNU for study;
- providing foreigners with invitation letters to study at DNU, drawing up relevant documentation, keeping records of invitations and submitting reports on this to competent external organizations;
- accepting, checking and storing documents provided by foreigners, completing personal files of international students, familiarizing them with the current legislation of Ukraine;
- keeping records of applications from foreign applicants, protocols of interviews and entrance tests with applicants, as well as assisting in the preparation of documentation regarding the enrollment of PV graduates and foreign applicants as students of DNU;
- preparing accounting documents and supporting the registration of foreigners in the State Migration Service of Ukraine, monitoring the terms of registration, validity of visas, passports and their re-issuance, preparing documents for entry and exit to Ukraine during holidays and in case of other urgent circumstances;
- monitoring the work of the Preparatory Department for foreigners;
- together with the Admissions Committee, conducting interviews and entrance exams with graduates of the Preparatory Department and foreign applicants for their further enrollment as students;
- assistance in issuing diplomas and supplements for bachelor`s and master`s degrees of higher education to foreign graduates based on documents provided by the deans of the faculties, ensuring the procedure for their legalization;
- keeping records of the movement of the international students’ contingent;
- monitoring the implementation of the rules of stay of international students in Ukraine; providing answers to requests from foreign missions in Ukraine, and individual foreign citizens on issues of studying foreigners at DNU.
In the field of international cooperation:
- establishing contacts with domestic and foreign legal entities and individuals, representatives of educational institutions of foreign countries to provide organizational and legal support to foreigners wishing to receive higher education at DNU;
- disseminating information about specialities and educational programs, conditions for admission to DNU abroad;
- studying the demand for DNU educational services among citizens of foreign countries, participating in the distribution of advertising and information materials about DNU created by faculties and departments;
- participating in programs and events in DNU`s international cooperation.
In the areas of housing and communal services, healthcare and others:
- monitoring the living conditions of international students in DNU dormitories;
- protecting the rights and interests of international students;
- supporting cultural events that contribute to mutual understanding and friendly relations among DNU students.
Current regulatory documents by the profile of the unit’s activities:
Regulations on the International Students Office of Oles Honchar Dnipro National University