The National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine (NMetAU) is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for metallurgical engineering. It was established in October, 1899 as a department of Katerinoslavsky Higher Mining School.

State higher educational institution of the 3rd and the 4th levels of accreditation. Specialists with higher education are trained in 58 civil and 2 military areas.

Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University is a prominent educational, scientific, engineering and cultural center in Western Ukraine region. As of today in our region, this is the only comprehensive technical education institution that provides training of specialists of all educational qualification levels. This includes doctors, doctors of philosophy and candidates of sciences, and spans across area that not only includes Ternopil, but also Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytsky and Rivne regions.

Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University is one of the oldest pedagogical higher educational institutions in Ukraine. It was founded in 1914 as a teacher training institution, which prepared teachers of a wide professional background without division into major subjects. Over time, the institute has acquired the status of a national university through time changes and reorganizations and in general more than 50 thousand qualified educators of various specialties, scholars, writers, and artists were educated in here during more than a century of our history.