Sumy State University is a multidisciplinary educational institution of a classical type with a diversified structure. It enrolls approximately 12,000 students, including foreigners from Western Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Students receive education in 57 specialties across 25 fields of knowledge through full-time, part-time, and distance learning formats. The university includes a department for reserve officer training.
Sumy State University has one of the highest performance indicators among higher education institutions in Ukraine according to the results of the state accreditation of scientific (scientific and technical) activities. It belongs to the highest qualification group in four directions: “Humanities and Arts,” “Social Sciences,” “Mathematical Sciences and Natural Sciences,” “Technical Sciences,” and has high indicators in the field of “Biology and Health Care.” For seven consecutive years, Sumy State University has been a leader in the competition of projects of young scientists. The university collaborates with more than 300 partners from 60 countries worldwide and implements about 400 international grants annually. Over the past 5 years, the volume of research within international grant projects has increased 20 times. The university implements over 75 long-term and short-term programs of international academic mobility for students, postgraduates, scientific and pedagogical staff with significant scholarship and grant support.
Ensuring quality, competitive education that creates conditions for personal development according to individual abilities, talents, and needs based on lifelong learning is one of the most important tasks of Sumy State University’s mission. The university’s social policy is implemented both within the university environment and has a broader societal focus. The social face of the university is ensured by systematic, purposeful activities to implement socially oriented policies in many areas, primarily through the implementation of the basic principle of “lifelong learning” through relevant programs. The volunteer unit includes over 200 students, including foreign students. The student social service, mainly consisting of medical students, works actively, organizing activities with the residents of social-psychological rehabilitation institutions, conducting training on first aid skills, promoting blood donation and its components, and providing social assistance to city residents.
Sumy State University’s sports facilities serve as the main training and competitive base for the higher sports school and 27 children’s and youth sports schools. About 800 schoolchildren are involved in university sports sections. The university’s social policy is also implemented through the infrastructure support of numerous regional and local events, public organizations based on the Congress Center, Cultural and Arts Center, and university sports facilities.