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National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Національний університет "Києво-Могилянська Академія"
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) (Ukrainian: Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія» (НаУКМА), Natsional'nyi universytet "Kyyevo-Mohylians'ka akademiya"), located in Kiev, Ukraine is one of the country's leading universities. The university occupies the historical compound of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the ancient Podil neighborhood of Kyiv and claims to continue it's academic tradition.

Reputation
Faculties of the university After the reestablishment of the university in 1992 NaUKMA was organized as North American present day universities. Thus academic year at NaUKMA consists of three terms unlike two semesters in other Ukrainian universities. NaUKMA was also pioneering in Ukraine in introducing Bachelor and Master degrees. Also except for a single major students can choose a minor for which they obtain a certificate additionional to the Bachelor diploma upon graduation. Curriculum consists of the compulsory subjects and electives. Each course is assigned a number of credit points according to the number of academic hours that it is being taught. Students are supposed to choose a number of credits for electives defined as sufficient to graduate.
Two official languages at the University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy are Ukrainian and English. The primary language of tuition is Ukrainian though. The university offers several courses in English .

Faculty of Computer Sciences
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences and Social Technologies
University Department of English Language
University Department of Physical Training
Kyiv Mohyla Business School Academics

History
The historic predecessor of the NaUKMA, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, was one of the oldest and the most distinguished academic and theological schools in Eastern Europe. It was established in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1632 by Petro Mohyla, a Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia. It played an important role in transmitting Renaissance ideals from Western Europe through Poland to Ukraine and Russia. The Kyiv Academy played educated practically all Ukrainian political and intellectual elite in the XVII and XVIII centuries. The university was generally highly acclaimed in the Eastern Europe teaching students from Russia, Belarus, Moldavia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was closed in 1817 by Alexander I of Russia to be turned into the Kiev theological academy in 1819. At the times of the Soviet Union a military-political college was placed in the buildings of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in XVII-XIX centuries
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy was reestablished in 1991. The NaUKMA was reopened based on the experience of North American universities introducing the Bachelor and Master degrees in Ukraine. During the Orange Revolution NaUKMA was the first university to show open support to the leader of opposition Viktor Yushchenko, the current president of Ukraine.

Reestablishment of the University
Admission to the NaUKMA is open for both Ukrainian during the university entrance examinations. Admission tests are considered to be challenging and cover a broader range of subjects than the typical entrance examinations held at the majority of universities in Ukraine.

Libraries
After it's reestablishment Kyiv Mohyla academic community is trying to also reestablish the lost traditions of it's predecessor. Still in the time of the existence of the new university several new traditions have been invented. So every year on October 15, which is celebrated as the Academy day, NaUKMA students wash the monument of the noted Kyiv Mohyla alumnus philosopher Hryhori Skovoroda. This action is called clean Skovoroda. The monument of Skovoroda in front of the university is also decorated with a mortarboard during the yearly graduation ceremony taking place on June 28. Another tradition during the graduation is to carry the univerisity turtle named Alma around the new graduates who make wishes after having touched her shell.

University traditions
Notwithstanding their relatively small number (about 3000 in year 2006), NaUKMA students (often called "spudeyi" (спудеї) within the university and "mohylyantsi" (могилянці) outside) are known to be very socially and politically active and all-round. Among student organizations on campus are: Student Council, Christian Students Union, Kyiv Mohyla Intellectual Club, Student Brotherhood, ecological club Zelena Hvylya and Youth Center for Humanities. Other student initiatives include campus radio station KB:)IT, choir Pochayna, theater studio and cinema club. NaUKMA student portal Bo.Net.Ua is an online platform for student and alumni communication. Mohylyantsi are regular participants and winners of student intellectual competitions.

Student life
Alumni of the old Kyiv Mohyla Academy have played an important role in all spheres of life in Ukraine requiring education. Many political leaders of Ukraine in 17-18th centuries being hetmans of Zaporozhian Cossacks were educated here. These include Ivan Mazepa, Pylyp Orlyk, Pavlo Polubotok, Kirill Razumovsky and Ivan Samoylovych. Grand Chancellor of Russia Alexander Bezborodko was of Ukrainian origin and alumnus. Kyiv Mohyla Academy was a religious school of significant importance in the entire Orthodox world. Thus archbishops of the Russian Empire Stephen Yavorsky and Feofan Prokopovich as well as metropolitan bishop of Rostov Dimitry of Rostov were all alumni of the Academy.
In 17-18th centuries several generations of writers, artists and scholars were raised at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. These included Karion Istomin and Simeon of Polotsk. Architects Ivan Hryhorovych-Barskyi and composer Artemy Vedel were also educated at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. An important figure in East Sclavic philosophy Hryhori Skovoroda was an alumnus of the university. Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist , polymath and founder of the Moscow university has been a student of Kyiv Mohyla Academy for a short time.
After 1819, when the university was turned into a purely religious educational institution, it kept it's international reputation and has been an alma mater for the Moldavian poet Alexei Mateevici and metropolitan bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church Visarion Puiu.
Currently, after revival as a modern university, NaUKMA gradually regains it's importance. NaUKMA alumni are employed by leading companies and government institutions and many graduates continue their studies abroad.
Ivan Mazepa
Hryhori Skovoroda
Mikhail Lomonosov
Alexander Bezborodko
Pylyp Orlyk
Feofan Prokopovich
Kirill Razumovsky
Symeon of Polotsk

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