National University Ostroh Academy

In 1577-1579 Ivan Fedorovych arrived to the Academy from Lviv and founded there the printing house. Under his direction, the most prominent Old Ukrainian Cyrillic printed materials were published. The most famous product is The Slavic Ostroh Bible (1581) which is considered to be a masterpiece of old-Ukrainian polygraphy and that played an enormous role for Orthodox education.[1] There were also published other materials:

• Greek and Slavic ABC-Book (1578)[10]
• The New Testament (1580)
• Sobranie Veshchey Nuzhneyshykh (Collection of Essential Things) by Tymofii Mykhailovych
• Chronology (1581) by Andrii Rymsha
• A Key to Heavenly Kingdom, The New Roman Calendar (1587) by Herasym Smotrytskyi
• Apokrysys by Christopher Filaret
• Slavic Grammar (1619) — a textbook of Church Slavonic Language (East Slavic edition). A literary heritage of the Ukrainian language by Meletius Smotrytskyi.

• Jan Latosz — a Polish scholar, astronomer, astrologist and physician; a professor at the Ostroh Academy.
• Herasym Smotrycki — the first Rector of the Academy and famous Orthodox writer and teacher.[11]
• Cyril Lucaris — a Greek scientist and religious figure; the Rector of Ostroh Academy and later, the Patriarch of Alexandria, and after that, the Patriarch of Constantinople.[12]
• Meletius Smotrytsky — a noted archbishop and writer from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, son of the first rector; at the Ostroh Academy he received his first formal education.[6]
• Ivan Vishnevsky — Ukrainian orthodox monk, religious philosopher and polemist. Closely associated with Ostroh scholars and in particular with Ostroh group of polemicists. In 1598, in Ostroh "Book" he published an epistle to Konstantyn Wasyl Ostrohskyi and Orthodox Christians.
• Severyn Nalyvaiko — a hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks (a hero of Ukrainian folklore famous by the Nalyvaiko Uprising); lived in Ostroh for years.
• Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny — hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks; graduated the Ostroh Academy and was a school mate of Meletiy Smotrytskyi.
• Iov Boretskyi — the first Rector of Kyiv Brotherhood School, probably graduated the Ostroh Academy (there aren't clear information about his education).[6]
• Elisei Pletenetsky — Ukrainian cultural and public figure, educator, writer. Archimandrite of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Founder of the Lavra printing house and the first paper mill in Central Ukraine.[6]
• Oleksandr Talavera — Ukrainian economist.[9]

Reсent-day Ostroh Academy:[13]

• high-end computer laboratories;
• Internet access;
• modern language laboratories;
• virtual library;
• module and rating system;
• sports clubs;
• Culture and Art Centre;

• The Department of Political Studies and Information Management
• The Department of Quantitative Economics
• The Department of Finance
• The Department of Romance and Germanic Languages
• The Department of Law
• The Department of International Relations

Students of Ostroh Academy take part in many international exchange programs.

The implementation of youth exchange project Canada-Ukraine (CORE) allows the students of the university to live in Canada for several months, gain experience in economic, social, administrative, educational and other spheres, and improve English and French.

Implementation of the Canadian-Ukrainian exchange «CORE / ECO» annually allows 20 university students to stay for several months in Canada, the master of the country experience in the field of environmental protection, gain leadership skills and get to know people of different nationalities living in Canada.

The program «CORE / HEALTH» — annually provides an opportunity for students to improve their skills in public health, spread among university students and local residents the information and materials about healthy lifestyles.

The program Net Corps, a Ukrainian-Canadian enables students to improve their professional skills in the sphere of informational technologies and programming.

The programs are coordinated by Canada World Youth organization, which has operated for 40 years in more than 50 countries. The partnership between Canada World Youth and the National University of Ostroh Academy has lasted for over 15 years. Some 225 students have participated in the programs.

For the last 10 years the students of the National University of Ostroh Academy have annually participated in such internship and educational programmes as Canadian-Ukrainian Parliamentary Program (CUPP), Fulbright Graduate Program, Edmund Muskie Program, Lane Kirkland Program, Study Tours to Poland, one year degree and non-degree studies at Warsaw University, four year studies at University of Marie Curie Sklodowska.