V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University – one of the oldest universities of Eastern Ukraine, founded in November 1804. 

Among the 30 famous scholars associated with the university there are three Nobel Prize winners:

I.I. Mechnikov (Medicine, 1908)

L.D. Landau (Physics, 1962)

S. Kuznets (Economics, 1971)

The University has: 21 Faculties, Center of International Education, Institute of Postgraduate Education

The National status was awarded in 1999 and since 2003 it has the highest status of state higher educational establishment.