National Aviation University

• 1898 - Mechanical department of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
• 1933 - Kyiv Aviation Institute
• 1947 - Kyiv Institute of Civil Air Fleet
• 1965 - Kyiv Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers
• 1994 - Kyiv International University of Civil Aviation
• 2000 - National Aviation University

Founded in 1933, over the years of operation, the university has trained over 200,000 highly qualified professionals. Among them are acclaimed scientists, CEOs of air carriers, enterprises, organizations and institutions ensuring flights, aircraft maintenance and repair, as well as transportation of passengers and cargo.

Today, about 25,000 students are studying in the university, including nearly 1,500 foreigners from 55 countries. NAU incorporates five institutes, ten faculties, military training department, six colleges, two lyceums, and the Flight Academy in Kropyvnytskyi. NAU trains bachelors, masters, candidates, and doctors of science. It became the leading institution for training specialists in civil aviation. Some of the alumni are notable industry organizers, scientists, state and military figures. They head educational institutions, air companies, design bureaus, factories, organizations and services within different departments. The university has powerful scientific schools in the fields of mechanics, management, electronics, materials science, electrical engineering, computer science and computer facilities. Academic activities are performed by a highly skilled scientific and pedagogical team, including 15 academicians, corresponding members of the Academy of Science of Ukraine, 184 doctors of sciences, professors, 677 candidates of sciences and senior lecturers, 80 honored people in science and engineering of Ukraine and winners of State prizes.[2]

Rector of National Aviation University is a Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Member of the Higher School Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Education Worker of Ukraine Volodymyr Isaienko.

The University has joined the Bologna Convention that makes it possible for students to get diplomas of international standard and improve students’ mobility. The university professors and students collaborate internationally with universities in Spain, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, France, South Korea and other countries. The University also cooperates with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Two ICAO European Regional Training Centers are successfully functioning for aviation personnel training and upgrading.[2]

Main campus in Kyiv

Antonov An-26 in the National Aviation University

Library in the National Aviation University

The university occupies a total area of about 90 hectares. There are 14 academic buildings standing on 150 000 square meters.

Within the framework of realization of the state investment project titled “International Pilot Training Center of National Aviation University” the university is successfully establishing high quality training of pilots.

The K-10 SWIFT, Cessna 172, and four Tecnam 2002 aircraft, as well as the ALSIM aircraft simulator, have been purchased to train Cessna, Tecnam, and Boeing-737 pilots. This year, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine awarded NAU five spots in the state order for the educational program “Aircraft Flight Operation”, with a total of 32 applicants enrolled for the first year.The scientific and technical library has a resource of about 2,6 million books.

The National Aviation University, the only one in Ukraine, has a unique hangar with 75 airplanes and helicopters, radio equipment, a training aerodrome with aviation ground handling equipment, an aerodynamic training complex equipped with a wind tunnel, and the State Museum of Aviation. Students of the university also have access to the Sports Complex, the Arts and Culture Centre, the Medical Centre, accommodation in one among the 11 hostels, a cafeteria with a seating capacity for 1000 people at a time, memberships in the Billiard Club and e-club, all located within the students' campus.[2]

More than 25,000 students study at the National Aviation University today, among them 1500 foreign students from more than 55 countries.

The National Aviation University consists of:[3]

Institutes:

1. Institute of International Cooperation and Education
2. Institute of Innovative Technologies and Leadership
3. Educational and Scientific Institute of Continuing Education
4. Educational and Scientific Institute of Innovative Educational Technologies
5. NAU's ICAO Training Institute

Faculties:

1. Aerospace Faculty]
2. Faculty of Air Navigation, Electronics and Telecommunications
3. Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Design
4. Faculty of Environmental Safety, Engineering and Technology
5. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
6. Faculty of Cybersecurity, Computer and Software Engineering
7. Faculty of Linguistics and Social Communications
8. Faculty of International Relations
9. Faculty of Transport, Management and Logistics
10. Law Faculty
11. Military Training Department

Aviation Academy:

• Kirovograd Flight Academy of National Aviation University (KFA NAU)

Lyceums:

• Aerospace Lyceum
• Higher Vocational School

Colleges:

Aviation Museum in Kryvyi Rih

1. College of Information Technologies and Land Management
2. College of Engineering and Management
3. Slovyansk College
4. Kryvyi Rih College
5. Vasylkiv College
6. Kyiv College of Computer Technology and Economics

12 research institutes and subdivisions: Research Institute of Technological Systems within Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and; Ministry of Industrial Policy; Research Institute of Integrated Telecommunication Technologies; SRI of the Fleeting Processes; SRI of Design; SRI "Aviatest"; State Research Institute of Aviation; Aerospace Center; Aerodynamic Research Center of National Aviation University of Ukraine; The Research Design Bureau "Buran"; Center "Air traffic service"; Training Center (gymnasium); Ukrainian National Research Center of Certification of Combustive-lubricating Materials and Technical Liquids;

• Ascad Kotayt - Former President of the ICAO Council
• Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu - President of the ICAO Council
• Pavel Grachev - Defense Minister (Russia)
• Borys Paton - President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Antonio Cuoco - CEO airline "Lufthansa" in Ukraine (Germany)
• Renato Claudio Costa Pereira - Secretary General of ICAO
• Remir Mukumov - General Director Association of Energy Service Companies (RAESCO)
• Nishikawa Eykiti - Honorary Consul General of Ukraine in Western Japan (Japan)
• Song Kyl Hogue - President Hankukskoho Aviation University (Korea)
• Eugenio Dominguez Vilches - Rector of the University of Cordoba (Spain)
• Leonid Kuchma - President of Ukraine
• Krystyan Aegiali - Director of the European and North Atlantic region ICAO
• Krivtsov Vladimir S. - President of the National Aerospace University. NE Zhukovsky
• Yang Ho Cho - President and CEO "Korean Airlines" (Korea)
• Shidlovskii Anatoly Korniyovych - NAS of Ukraine
• Pashayev Arif Mir Jalal oglu - Rector of the National Academy of aircraft (Azerbaijan)
• Muravchenko Fyodor - General Designer state enterprise "Zaporozhye Machine-Building Design Bureau" Progress "them. Acad. O. Ivanchenko
• Troshchenko Valery T. - Director of the Institute for Problems of Strength of. GS Pisarenko Nano
• Raymond Benjamin - Secretary General of ICAO
• Renat Kuzmin Ravaliyovych - Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine
• Kremen Vasily - President of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine
• James Ayinde Fabunmi - Founder, Adulawo Nigeria Network
• Kateryna Rychka - Mother of Martis Puccio
• Elizaveta Shahkhatuni, aeronautical engineer and professor

• National Aviation University Official Website
• Kyiv Aviation Institute