The National University "Lviv Polytechnic" (NULP) was founded on March 7, 1816 as a real school by order of the Emperor of Austria, Franz I. Thus, the university is one of the oldest technical educational institutions in Eastern Europe and the first in Ukraine. About 35,000 students study in its walls at 17 institutes (faculties). The teaching staff exceeds 2200 teachers, more than 350 of which have a doctorate.
At the head of progress
Lviv Polytechnic University in 2016 celebrated its 200th anniversary as an educational institution. Not every university can boast such an impressive biography. All these years, the NULP has been a pillar of the country's scientific and technical school, maintaining the highest level of teaching under the emperors, the Soviet regime, and in independent Ukraine.
Its history dates back to 1816, when after the victory over Napoleon in the regions of the Austrian Empire, the growth of national identity begins. Lviv, being the capital of the rich Galician region, among other things, was at the center of the industrial and technological revolution. The measured patriarchal order collapsed, factories and mechanisms came to replace the subsistence economy and hand tools. However, landowners and industrialists were faced with the problem of a lack of qualified mechanics, technicians, and artisans. At the request of local authorities on March 7, 1816, Emperor Franz I issued a decree on the opening of a three-year real school in Lviv, the predecessor of the Lviv Polytechnic University.
Age of Enlightenment
However, this was not yet a university in the usual sense. In a real school, only basic technical knowledge was taught. Only in 1835 the educational institution was transformed into the Cisar-Royal Real-Trade, and a little later - the Technical Academy.
In 1848, a wave of protests swept through Lviv. An active role in the revolutionary movement was played by students of the educational institution. In response, the imperial troops opened fire on the city with cannons, as a result, the central building of the academy was damaged. The archive, library, and laboratory equipment were destroyed.
In the middle of the XIX century, changes began in the organizational structure. In 1853 the sales department was separated, and in 1856 a real school. But the engineering department received a powerful impetus in development. In 1871, the Technical Academy raised its status - received the rights of a higher educational institution. The first rector was elected professor of physics F. Stzheletsky.
On October 8, 1877, the Academy was renamed Technische Hochschule, which in translation sounds like "Polytechnic Higher School." In 1901, the institution was granted the right to confer the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences. By 1918, 64 engineers became doctors.
Polish period
In August 1914, the measured life of higher education was disrupted - the First World War began. After its completion, the political map of Europe has changed dramatically. Austria-Hungary fell apart, Galicia moved to Poland. The Polish period of the history of the Polytechnic School began.
January 13, 1921 The Polytechnic School was renamed, it became known as the Lviv Polytechnic. It was in the 1930s that Polytechnic formed one of the largest scientific and technical libraries in Europe; it had the status of a federal one. In 1938, its fund amounted to more than 88,000 copies. In the interwar period, the university strengthened its position as a center of intellectual life and scientific thought at the European level.
Lviv Polytechnic Institute (1939-1989)
The largest military trials and demographic disasters occurred in Lviv during the Second World War. In 1939, Western Ukraine was annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic as part of the USSR. Education has resumed since October of that year. Polytechnic was reorganized into the Lviv Polytechnic Institute (LPI).
However, the peaceful sky overhead was short-lived. The institution was to survive a new, even more terrible war. During the occupation, the Nazis shot many teachers, and the corps was badly damaged.
After the liberation of Lviv, classes at the Polytechnic resumed. In the 1944-1945 school year, more than 1000 students began their studies. Prominent scientists and professors came from different parts of the USSR to restore the glorious scientific and technical school of Western Ukraine.
The institute developed at an accelerated pace. New specialties were opened, scientific work was being conducted. In 1959, on the basis of the building faculty, one of the first in the USSR began to operate SPKB - a student design bureau (now the Polytechnic). By 1970, the university had 14 faculties. In the 1980s, LPI became a powerful training and production complex that determined the scientific and technical policy of the region.
Lviv Polytechnic University
New shocks awaited in the early 1990s. The USSR broke up into independent republics, one of which was Ukraine. In the 1991-1992 academic year, about 16,000 students studied at 16 faculties of the Polytechnics, the educational process in 50 specialties was carried out by 76 departments, which employed 1,597 teachers, of which 105 doctors and 1,004 candidates of science.
From 1998 to 2002, the university licensed 8 new areas of training and 16 new specialties, 63 specializations were opened taking into account the new achievements of science and technology and the current needs of the labor market.
On October 30, 2000, taking into account national and international recognition of the results of activities and a significant contribution to the development of national higher education and science, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine Lviv Polytechnic State University was awarded the status of a national higher educational institution. Instead of 16 faculties, at first 12 educational institutes were created, and later their number increased to 17.
Today, the development of Lviv Polytechnic is aimed at ensuring high quality education, the prestige of the university and its graduates, improving the personnel, methodological and informational support of the educational process, integrating into the international scientific space, maximizing the convergence of fundamental science and higher education, increasing the economic efficiency of applied research and development .
Structure
According to the new training system, at the Lviv Polytechnic University, the faculties were replaced by the institutes:
- Architecture.
- Humanities.
- Construction.
- Sustainable development (environmental).
- The economy.
- Management systems and energy.
- Transport and mechanics.
- Computer Science.
- Metrology, automation and computer technology.
- Law, psychology.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Administration.
- Basic sciences, mathematics.
- Chemical technology.
- Electronic engineering, telecommunications.
- Surveying.
- Distance learning.
Institutions received more freedom in solving educational and organizational issues. Also, the structure of the NULP includes: 2 gymnasiums, 8 colleges, a research department, 34 laboratories, a library, a publishing center, sports and fitness complexes, medical facilities, a sanatorium, 15 dormitories, a geodetic training ground, etc.
Admission
Passing points at the Lviv Polytechnic University are determined on the basis of entrance exams and vary greatly depending on the specialty. The more people who want to study a particular discipline and the higher their training, the fiercer the competition among applicants.
In 2017, the highest grades on the budget of the Lviv Polytechnic University with full-time education were recorded in the following disciplines:
- International relations and communications: 193.523 points (competition for one budget place was 70.7 people).
- Journalism: 191,799 (35.2).
- Internet of Things, Systems Engineering: 190.587 (30.12).
- International economic relations: 189.66 (23.3).
- Software Engineering: 188.618 (17.51).
- Tourism: 187.86 (62.19).
- Applied Linguistics 185.739 (6.24).
- Right: 185.638 (28.58).
- Marketing: 183,315 (35).
- Psychology: 183.163 (46.62).
- Economy: 182.81 (25.11).
- Administration: 181,477 (27.1).
- Pharmacy: 181.093 (12.82).
The lowest grades in Lviv Polytechnic University scored the following specialties:
- Nuclear power: 120.493 points (4.61 people per seat).
- Metallurgy: 121.654 (2).
- Applied Mechanics: 124.18 (2.16).
- Branch engineering: 125.29 (2.82).
- Fire safety: 128.208 (1.67).
- Electromechanics, electric power industry: 129.078 (3.26).
Passing points for distance learning:
- Psychology: 182.86 (39.25).
- Right: 180.79 (16.66).
- Computer Science: 165.943 (13.1).
Undergraduate: Tuition Fee
Lviv Polytechnic University realizes the right of citizens to receive higher education at the expense of the State budget of Ukraine, local budgets, or on the basis of agreements with organizations or private individuals. Admission to training at the NLP at all educational and educational qualification levels is carried out by competition, regardless of the funding sources for training.
Its cost depends on the form and duration of training, the relevance of the specialty, as well as material and technical costs. Here are examples of prices for some undergraduate specialties for 2017-2018 (in hryvnias):
- Right: 83540 UAH.
- Design; Bridge building and architecture; Art: 68690 UAH.
- Civil engineering and construction;
- Economics: 53380 UAH.
- International relations: 48740 UAH.
- Hydraulic engineering; Fire safety: UAH 45,230.
- Surveying: 44560 UAH.
- Journalism;
- Telecommunications: 44090 UAH.
- Land sciences: 39920 UAH.
- Sociology: 36920 UAH.
- Power industry; Nuclear power; Heat power: 35740 UAH.
- Applied mechanics; Metrology; Bioengineering: UAH 35,280
Master: Cost
Examples of tuition fees for master's degrees (2017-2018):
- Jurisprudence: 25000 UAH
- Design; Bridge building; Restoration of buildings: 19800 UAH.
- Civil engineering; Building technologies: 16800 UAH.
- Water management activities; hydraulic engineering construction: 13400 UAH.
- Economy; International relationships; Management: 12900 UAH
- Surveying: Applied Ecology: 10900 UAH.
- Cartography; Power industry; Electrical systems: 9000 UAH.
- Heat power: 8000 UAH.
- Road transport: 6000 UAH.
University address: st. Stepan Bandera, Bldg. 12, Lviv, Ukraine, ind. 79013.