General information
  The Faculty of Economics is a powerful educational subdivision of the University. The Faculty trains over 3,500 students, 1,440 of them are full-time students, including 164 foreign students. 2,200 students are following extra-mural studies of all types.

New forms of education have been opened:

  • Parallel education;
  • Distance education in Slavyansk, Kryviy Rig, Kremenchug, Feodosiya, Cherkassy, Skadovsk, Krasniy Luch, Mariupol;
  • Second higher education.
  Eight departments of the Faculty of Economics train bachelors, specialists and masters in fourteen specialities:
  • "Economic Theory";
  • "Administrative Management";
  • "Management of Organizations";
  • "Finance";
  • "Banking";
  • "International Economics";
  • "International Economic Relations";
  • "Economic Statistics";
  • "Economic Cybernetics";
  • "Marketing";
  • "Accounting and Audit";
  • "Management of Foreign Economic Activity";
  • "Tourism";
  • "Applied Economics";

   Highly skilled research and educational specialists provide teaching and methodical, scientific-research and pedagogical activity at the Faculty. Among them are 30 doctors of science, professors, and more than 70 candidates of science, assistant professors. The average age of teachers is 48 years. At present, 15 young teachers who have graduated the Faculty of Economics work at the faculty's departments
  In the course of recent years, 12 new educational and 14 special courses have been elaborated, including 14 author's courses. Programmes of main courses and subjects for tests, term papers and degree works are constantly renovated.

  All graduates of full-time state budget form of education are placed in jobs.
  In 2000/2001 academic year, there appeared the Centre of occupational adaptation and employment for the graduates at the Faculty, organized with the purpose of selection and testing of students and extension of their professional training on company's demands.

  All the disciplines studied at the Faculty are provided with training and methodic manuals, which are renovated every year. The Kharkiv National University Bulletin is regularly published.

  There are 5 computer classrooms at the faculty equipped with more than 67 computers. In the course of study of the curriculum disciplines, special-purpose computer applications and Internet are used. There is a publishing complex and audio-video classroom for foreign language studies.
  The faculty was awarded a grant on the TACIS project for the sum of 166 thousand Euros. At the expense of this grant, the new computer classroom was equipped with 15 modern computers and a multimedia projector. In accordance with the TACIS project, masters in "Applied Economics" speciality are trained since 2003.
  Due to creation of the Department of Business Foreign Language and Translation, students' schooling in foreign languages has been improved.

  At the Faculty, there function two specialized councils on doctoral theses defence in three specialities: "Economic Theory", "Finance, Currency Circulation and Credit", "Organization of Management, Planning and Regulation of Economy".
  Lately, 9 doctoral and 38 Ph.D. theses have been defended. Over 60 people have completed their post-graduate studies successfully.

  Since 2001, the scientific magazine "Social Economics" is published under the editorship of the Faculty's leading scientists, and this magazine belongs to the list of publications of the Higher Attestation Committee of Ukraine. Twelve scientific and practical research conferences have been held. Interuniversity student's research conferences and regional school competitions in economics are annually held on the basis of the Faculty of Economics.
  At the Faculty of Economics, the Kharkiv regional society on heritage of M.I. Tugan-Baranovskiy, prominent Ukrainian scientist and economist, has been created and registered. V.P. Babych, Doctor of Economics and Professor, is the head of this society.

  Annual celebrations of the Day of the Faculty of Economics and festival New Year programmes are held at the Faculty. Students actively participate in conferences organized in commemoration of prominent economists who had worked at the Faculty, in the competition for first-year students "Alma mater", in the beauty contest "Miss University", in contests of the Merry and Smart Club, sports competitions in football, basketball and track and field athletics winning prizes. The student council activity in the hostels has been regulated. Sightseeing tours to Poltava, Saint Petersburg and Slavyanogorsk are regularly organized.

  Together with the Central Scientific Library the Faculty takes measures to enrich the library stocks with up-to-date economic literature.

  Since 2002, there functions a section of information support which has been created with the purpose of introduction of modern information technologies and further development of distance education.

Since 2004, all full-time students have imitation practical training with the use of "1Ñ:Enterprise" system in the specially equipped classroom.