Oles Honchar Dnipro National University is an establishment of higher education in Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. The first four faculties were history and linguistics, law, medicine and physics and mathematics. Nowadays the university has level IV accreditation, with 20 faculties and 1,300 professors, 850 of them PhDs. The university has about 22,000 Ukrainian students and offers 87 majors. It has about 3,000 international students from 20 countries. It has strong ties with one of the largest world's rocket space centers, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, and other industrial and scientific organizations in areas with a population of more than 15 million people. The university comprises four higher education institutions of the first and second level of accreditation, 16 faculties, 46 research laboratories, three research institutes (Biology, Geography, Power Engineering) the Faculty of Distance and Part-time Education, the Faculty of Continuous Education, the Faculty of Postgraduate Education, the Faculty of Pre-university Preparation, Regional Center of Continuous Education “Prydniprovye” including eight schools, one Lyceum and the one gymnasium.