The Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is an institution of higher education in Ukraine, founded in 1918. The first four faculties were History and Linguistics, Law, Medicine, and Physics and Mathematics. Today, the university holds Level IV accreditation, with 20 faculties and 1,300 professors, 850 of whom hold PhDs. The university has approximately 22,000 Ukrainian students and offers 87 majors. It also enrolls about 3,000 international students from 20 countries. The university maintains strong ties with one of the world’s largest rocket and space centers, the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, as well as other industrial and scientific organizations in the Donetsk-Pridneprovsk region, which has a population of over 15 million.