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Universities in Ukraine
Ukraine has 214 universities on the map. The oldest dates to 1661. Most were founded in the modern era. Below: how they spread across the centuries, and the country’s oldest institutions. From Wikidata, snapshot 2026-06-22.
UNIVERSITIES214
OLDEST1661
FOUNDED 1900+170
By founding era
Before 12000 · 0%
1200–15990 · 0%
1600–189932 · 15%
1900 or later170 · 79%
Date unknown12 · 6%
Oldest universities in Ukraine
The country’s earliest institutions — the deepest roots of higher education here.
1661Lviv University
1784Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University
1784Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies Lviv
1801Dnipro State Medical University
1804H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
1804National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine”
1805National University of Kharkiv
1805Nizhyn Gogol State University
1805National University of Pharmacy
1816Lviv University of Trade and Economics
1816Kharkiv National Agrarian University named after V.V. Dokuchayev
1818National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic»
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