Vinnytsia National Technical University was first formed as the General Technology faculty of Kyiv Institute of Food Technology. It then became the Vinnytsia branch in 1962, Ukraine’s seventh Polytechnic Institute in 1974, a State Technical University in 1994 and attained its current name and status in 2014.
It is based on a 25 hectare campus in Vinnytsia, 160 miles southwest of Ukraine’s national capital Kyiv. It became the first university in Ukraine to introduce a three-semester year, with the third semester intended for internships and work experience.
It has approximately 6,000 students, a quarter of them part-timers, distributed across eight faculties: computer control systems and automation, civil engineering, thermal power engineering and gas supply, power engineering, ecology and gas mechanics, information technology and computer engineering, machine building andtransport, radio engineering telecommunications and electronics, and instrument engineering, management and information security.