Kryvyi Rih National University

Kryvyi Rih National University (Ukrainian: Криворізький національний університет, romanized: Kryvorizkyi natsionalnyi universytet) is a public university located in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. It consists of seven faculties and five institutes. The university was founded in 1922 as the Kryvyi Rih Evening Working College, and reorganized onto Kryvyi Rih Mining University. During the Soviet era, Kryvyi Rih University was one of the top professional universities in the USSR. In 2011 the Cabinet of Ukraine founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting Technic University, State Pedagogical University, Institute of Economics and also Institute of Metallurgy (a branch of National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine at that moment).