Rector
Boychuk Yurii Dmytrovych
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the NAES of Ukraine
Room 204
+38 (057) 700-69-09[email protected] Personal page Opens in a new tabManagement
University structure
Institutes, faculties and departments, administrative units, centres, laboratories and collegiate bodies.
The structure of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, together with the status and functions of its subdivisions, is defined by the University Statute and by the regulations on each subdivision. Subdivisions are established by decision of the Academic Council in the manner prescribed by the Law of Ukraine “On Higher Education” and by the Statute. Teaching is delivered by three educational and research institutes and eight faculties.
Reflects the university’s organisational chart as of 30 June 2026.
Collegiate governing bodies
- Supervisory Board
- Conference of the Staff
- General Assembly (Conference) of Students
- Academic Council
- Executive Board (Quality Board)
University administration
Kharkiv, 29 Alchevskykh St.
First Vice-Rector
Borysov Volodymyr Andriiovych
Room 205
+38 (057) 700-34-97[email protected] Personal page Opens in a new tab
Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and International Activity
Berezhna Svitlana Viktorivna
Room 208
+38 (057) 717-10-36[email protected] Personal page Opens in a new tab
Vice-Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs
Borysenko Nataliia Oleksiivna
Room 207
+38 (057) 700-35-09[email protected]
Vice-Rector for Administration and Facilities
Chernik Tetiana Valentynivna
Room 203
+38 (057) 700-35-22[email protected]Institutes
H.F. Kvitka-Osnovianenko Educational and Research Institute of Ukrainian Philology
The university hub of Ukrainian studies: departments of Ukrainian language, literature and journalism, Ukrainian studies and linguodidactics, and English language theory and practice.
4 subdivisions
Educational and Research Institute of Special Education and Inclusion
Special pedagogy, corrective psychopedagogy and biology, together with research laboratories and the centres for inclusion and mental health.
4 subdivisions
Institute of Postgraduate Education Opens in a new tab
3 subdivisions
Subdivisions
- Career Development Centre
- Adult Education Centre
- Centre for Preparing Primary School Teachers for Teacher Certification
Faculties
Faculty of History and Law
Departments of history and law, social and economic disciplines and geography, and the archaeological laboratory.
7 subdivisions
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Science Education
Mathematics, computer science, physics and chemistry, biology, educology and innovative pedagogy; the faculty also runs the Ecological and Bioethical Centre, the Botanical Museum, the O. P. Krapyvnyi Zoological Museum, the Skovoroda biology school and two research laboratories — environmental monitoring and biotechnology.
8 subdivisions
Faculty of Arts
Choreography, music and fine arts, design and technologies.
4 subdivisions
Faculty of Foreign Philology
English and Oriental languages, general linguistics and Romance-Germanic philology, and the centre for foreign language teaching methods.
4 subdivisions
Faculty of Primary Education Opens in a new tab
3 subdivisions
Subdivisions
- Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Philological Disciplines in Preschool, Primary and Special Education Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
- Department of Theory and Methods of Teaching Natural Science and Mathematical Disciplines in Preschool, Primary and Special Education Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
- Department of Primary and Vocational Education Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
Faculty of Preschool Education
Preschool teaching methods, pedagogical anthropology and digital didactics with their teaching laboratories.
4 subdivisions
Faculty of Physical Education and Sports
Olympic and professional sports, sports pedagogy disciplines, the biomechanics laboratory and the ski base.
5 subdivisions
Faculty of Social and Humanitarian Sciences and Social Technologies
Rehabilitation psychology and developmental psychology, political science and sociology, social work, management and economics, philosophy.
6 subdivisions
Administrative subdivisions and services
Subdivisions are listed by type — centres, departments and services, other units. Those with a page on this site or a site of their own open by link.
Centres
Departments and services
- Accounting Service
- Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Department
- Department of Emergencies, Civil Protection and Mobilisation
- Public Relations and Media Department
- Human Resources Department
- Logistics Department. Storeroom
- Department of University Performance Monitoring and Educational Research
- Department of Research, Innovation and International Activity
- Occupational Safety Department
- Internships Department
- Academic Affairs Department
- Research Library
- «Open Path to Higher Education» preparatory department
- Admissions Office
- Editorial and Publishing Department
- Military Registration Service
- Rector’s Office
- Authorised Unit for Corruption Prevention and Detection Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
- Legal Department
Other subdivisions
- Administrative and Maintenance Unit
- Archive
- Motor Transport Garage
- Dormitory No. 1
- General Department
- Engineering Group
- Museum Complex
- Museum of University History
- Botanical Museum
- «Museum of the Primer and Copybooks» exhibition hall
- O.P. Krapyvnyi Zoological Museum
- «FMF OPEN SPACE» Museum of the History of Science
- Toy Museum
- Museum of Ethnic Design
- Educational and Administrative Complex (academic buildings)
- «Haidary» Training and Sports Camp
- Editorial Office of the «Uchytel» Newspaper
- Campus (student dormitories)
«Skovoroda associations»
Collegiate, working and advisory bodies, research and methodological laboratories, centres and student associations operating on a voluntary basis. Listed as one set, with no grouping by vice-rector.
- Alumni Association of H.S. Skovoroda KhNPU
- Gender Centre
- Debate Club
- Research and Education Centre for Barrier-Free Access
- Israeli Cultural and Educational Centre
- Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute
- Laboratory for the Study of H.S. Skovoroda’s Philosophical Heritage
- Laboratory for the Study of H.S. Skovoroda’s Literary Heritage
- Laboratory for the Study of H.S. Skovoroda’s Pedagogical Heritage
- Iranian Cultural and Educational Centre
- Chinese Cultural and Educational Centre
- Educational and Methodological Centre of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies in Education
- Research Council
- Research Laboratory of Biotechnology
- Research Laboratory of Environmental Monitoring and Protection
- Research Laboratory of Technologies of Scientific and Pedagogical Research, Applied Pedagogical Diagnostics and Correction of the Educational Process
- Research Psychological Laboratory
- Research Institute of Experimental Didactics
- Research Laboratory «Didactics of Modern Education. New Ukrainian School»
- Research Laboratory «Health Promotion. Psychodidactics»
- Research Laboratory «School Medicine and Psychology»
- Scientific and Methodological Laboratory of Civic and Intercultural Education
- Scientific and Methodological Laboratory for Protection, Development and Improvement of the Voice of Voice-Profession Practitioners
- Scientific and Methodological Laboratory of Innovative Primary Education Technologies
- Scientific and Methodological Laboratory of Innovative Mathematics Education
- Scientific and Methodological Laboratory of Interdisciplinarity in Education
- H.S. Skovoroda Separate Research and Education Centre of Ukrainian Cossacks
- Olympic Union
- Psychological Service Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
- Council of Study Programme Guarantors
- Council of Deans
- Council of Young Scientists Has its own websiteOpens in a new tab
- Council of Elders
- Regional Centre of Japanese Culture and Education
- Editorial and Publishing Council
- Skovoroda Hub
- Sports Club
- Student Dormitory Council
- Student Parliament
- Turkish Cultural and Educational Centre
- Arts Council
- Veterans Development Centre
- Centre for Integration and Development of Educational Practices
- Young Leader School
- Legal Clinic
- STEM Centre