Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University

Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University is a university in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, the largest university in Poltava Oblast. There are more 7 000 students studying in the university as of 2013. Its current rector is Mykhaylo Zagirnyak. History The origins of Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University dates back to 1921. In that year the first institute of higher education was established in Kremenchuk. It offered higher educational courses with the Ukrainian language of teaching. The legal status of these courses was comparable to those offered by colleges which were considered as higher education institutions. Later, in 1925 the courses were reorganized in Kremenchuk Pedagogical College. There were day-time and evening classes where three different departments - preschool, school, and communist education - prepared future nursery teachers, primary school teachers, and pioneer leaders. In September 1930, by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine, the Kremenchuk Institute of Social Education was opened on the same basis. There was only the School faculty which consisted of four departments: agrobiological, linguo-literary, technical-mathematical, and historical-economical. The students could attend full-time, correspondence, and evening classes.