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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!
Do you want to earn a modern education?
Do you dream of fulfilling your potential?
Do you want to take your rightful place in the world and
are convinced that you are ready to take it?
Do you want to be the best of the best?
Be confident that you have stumbled upon the correct path!

Masters programs at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) provide you with an opportunity to realize your greatest dreams. What allows us to make such a bold statement, and what will it take to convince you of its veracity? Please consider the following arguments:
By enrolling in a Masters program at NaUKMA you can either continue your education in your chosen career path or select a new and more interesting direction for your professional development. All of us can make poor decisions in planning for the future. Only NaUKMA gives you the chance to take corrective action.

NaUKMA Masters programs guarantee you academic freedom of choice and the opportunity to design a truly creative educational plan because the Academy allows students to select a course of study from a variety of interesting disciplines and also encourages students to further enrich their educational experience by enrolling in additional certified programs.

The atmosphere here is best characterized as an actual and not an imagined democracy because just as professors evaluate your academic performance and talents you evaluate their teaching ability and competence.

Because the worldwide academic community holds our Academy in the highest regard a Masters degree from NaUKMA will open broad academic and professional horizons for you. The exceptional number of grants and scholarships our Masters program graduates are awarded each year to continue their education and research abroad evidences the quality of a NaUKMA education and the value of a NaUKMA degree.

If you are still uncertain that the
Masters program at NaUKMA is right for you,
reading the following pages will convince you
that this is the opportunity of a lifetime!

COME, COMPETE, and SUCCEED!

As an independent institution within the greater NaUKMA community the Masters Program unites a multiplicity of disciplines to offer its students an in-depth professional education. Our program’s curriculum is intelligently structured to help meet the current professional needs of society and, as a rule a NaUKMA Masters degree can be earned after two years of fulltime coursework. During this two year period, students must complete between a minimum of 60 credits and a maximum of 75 credits. Credits can be earned in a variety of ways including, passing required courses, elective courses and internships; engaging in a variety of academic research activities; performing laboratory work; and writing and defending a Masters thesis.
After successfully completing the required number of credits at NaUKMA, graduates earn a state certified Masters Diploma in an accredited field of specialization. Graduates who earn a state certified Masters Diploma have two options. First, they can enter the workforce as highly-qualified professionals. Alternatively, they can enroll in a PhD program at either NaUKMA, another Ukrainian university or within the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In addition to receiving a state certified Masters Diploma candidates who perform at a very high academic level, as defined by standards established by NaUKMA, also earn a Masters Diploma from the Academy. The Academy’s Diploma is especially valuable because it is internationally recognized as a Masters Diploma in the relevant field of study. Given that NaUKMA Masters Diplomas are recognized by most distinguished Western universities it allows our graduates to continue their studies in a variety of distinguished foreign Doctoral and other post-graduate programs in European and U.S. universities.

In recent years several international post-graduate programs have become very popular among our students. These programs include the Fulbright Graduate Student Program, which places graduate students at top U.S. universities; Doctoral Studies at the European Collegium of Polish and Ukrainian Universities in Lublin, Poland; and specialized research studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. In the near future NaUKMA will be opening a Center designed to provide comprehensive assistance, including financial aid, to qualified candidates from the Academy’s Masters Program interested in enrolling in the NaUKMA Ph. D. Program. The Center will operate with the support of international foundations and will work in cooperation with many universities of Central and Eastern Europe.

In order to enroll in NaUKMA Masters programs students must earn a state certified Bachelors Degree (or Specialists Diploma) and pass exams pertaining to their Bachelor’s specialty. In light of the fact that lectures at NaUKMA are held in English as well as in Ukrainian student applicants must also demonstrate their fluency in English and Ukrainian by successfully sitting for the appropriate exams.

NaUKMA offers the following Masters Programs: Biology, Ecology and Environmental Studies, Economic Theory, Journalism, Intellectual Systems for Decision Making, Information Technology (the preceding two are computer related), History, History (Archeology and Ancient History of Ukraine), Cultural Studies (Theory and History of Culture), Political Science, Law, Social Services, Sociology, Literary Studies (Theory and History of Literature and Comparative Literary Studies), Philosophy (History of Philosophy), Management in the Field of Health Services, Chemistry. As the preceding list demonstrates, NaUKMA offers a wide range of Masters Programs each of which occupies a specific academic niche. It is also worth noting that the number of NaUKMA Masters Programs grows each year.

The wide range of Masters Programs offered by NaUKMA allows us to invite students from other Ukrainian and international universities to enroll in our Masters Programs because at NaUKMA they are certain to find Programs that interest them. In light of NaUKMA’s commitment to academic excellence students will also find that our Programs provide an outstanding education that leaves graduates highly prepared to begin careers in their area of expertise. For all these reasons we are certain that students will want to earn their Masters Degree at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Candidates for a Masters Degree that distinguish themselves academically while at NaUKMA are invited to apply for a whole range of named grants offered by the University. Masters candidates in their second year are eligible for these grants regardless of whether they received their Bachelors or Specialists diploma from a university other than NaUKMA.

Masters Programs at NaUKMA are largely autonomous from the greater University and lead by well known researchers in the relevant fields of study in order to ensure that each Program has a curriculum precisely tailored to satisfy the specific educational needs of its students. To enrich the quality of a Masters education at NaUKMA each of the Programs also regularly invites well known Ukrainian and international research professionals to lecture at the University. In addition to taking courses offered within the curriculum of a particular Program students also have the opportunity to enroll, free of charge, in an additional elective certificate program. Although these certificate programs may vary from year to year based on the expressed interest of our students, recent examples include Analysis of Public Politics, Practical Psychology, and Professional Translation, European Law. Needless to say, the certificate programs further contribute to the professional qualifications of NaUKMA graduates.

Above all, the Masters Programs at NaUKMA are designed to produce professionals capable of performing independent academic research and driven to produce innovative work. The fruits of our community’s scholarly activities, such as research articles and theses produced by Masters Candidates and their professors are published in the academic journal “Magisterium” which is regularly released in Program specific editions.
                                
Today every Masters Program has its own resource center equipped with computers connected to the Internet. Masters candidates also enjoy access to two general computer labs located in the Masters Programs main building.

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