Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno


Janka Kupała State University of Hrodna а higher education institution, located in Hrodna. It is the largest regional higher education institution in the Republic of Belarus, university complex integrating all levels of education.
According to the international Webometrics ranking , YKSUG ranks second among Belarusian universities and 3103 among 12 000 world universities.
It is the second education institution in the Republic of Belarus where the system of electronic student identification card was introduced.

University Rectors

History

On February 22, 1940 by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the BSSR Teachers' Training Institute was founded in Hrodna. It ceased its development because of the German-Soviet War. Already in 1944 the studies continued, and the Teachers' Institute was reorganized into a pedagogical. In 1957 the Institute was honored with the name of Janka Kupała. In 1967 the first defence of doctoral thesis took place in the Institute, and in 1969 postgraduate studies were introduced. On May 1, 1978 Pedagogical Institute was reorganized into the Janka Kupała State University of Hrodna.
September 1, 2010 - introduction of the electronic student identification cards system.
In 2011 it was the first university, among higher education institutions of the country, which became the winner of the national contest "Prize of the Government of the Republic of Belarus for achievements in quality".
In 2011 the Janka Kupała State University of Hrodna received the status of scientific organization.
In 2010 the Janka Kupała University was the first university, among the regional universities of Belarus, which received national and international certificates of quality management system meeting the requirements of STB ISO 9001-2009 and ISO 9001:2008

The University today

At present there are: 17 098 students, 284 master students, 162 post-graduate students, 40 professors, 261 associate professors and 316 candidates of sciences. The university comprises 17 faculties and 79 departments. The university research library has more than 700 000 books.

Faculties

In addition, the University comprises the Regional Centre for Testing and Youth Career Orientation, and colleges:
The logotype of the university and faculties is a stylized letter “У” of the Cyrillic alphabet with certain symbols in the centre.

Alumni

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