Odessa State Environmental University

To provide practical training at the university there are training laboratories, research and training bases for practical placements: The Hydroecological Laboratory – on the Dniester River in the village of Maiaky (for training of hydrologists, hydrographers, ecologists and experts in the field of ichthyology and water bioresources), The Geophysical Laboratory – on the shores of the Black Sea within the Otrada (for the training of oceanographers, hydrographers, meteorologists and ecologists), The Meteorological Laboratory – in the village of Chornomorka (for training of meteorologists, agrometeorologists, radio meteorologists and ecologists). The university has a joint computer centre, library and reading rooms with a total fund of educational and scientific literature of about 500 thousand volumes, and since 2005 there is an electronic library of the university and a repository. At Odessa State Environmental University, there provided Doctorate and Post-Graduate studies, and there operate three specialized Academic Councils for defence of doctoral and PhD theses in five research areas. Currently, about 200 research and teaching staff are employed at 21 departments of the University. More than 2/3 of them hold a PhD or a DSc degree, 15 OSENU Professors and researchers are Academicians and Corresponding Members of various academies of Ukraine, the CIS countries, the European Union and the United States. The structure of the educational process at OSENU is close to international standards. Since 2004, the training of specialists at the levels of higher education meets the structure and requirements of the standards of the credit-accumulation system of the educational process. All specialties for which higher education students are trained at OSENU are accredited at the IV level. Dormitories 1-2 Dormitory 3 Dining room, buffets Swimming pool Sports grounds, gyms Youth direction "Ecospace" Everything for comfortable learning To support the study process, research and recreation of students there created good conditions such as modern educational, scientific and social infrastructure (canteen, sports hall and dormitories) of the University in the territory of a single campus in the resort district of Odessa. Since 2007, the University has put into operation a modern sports complex with a swimming pool, numerous game rooms, sports fields and pitches, a shooting range and tennis courts. On the beach in the recreational area of the city are student preventorium. Additional opportunities During the period of study at the university, students and cadets can receive a second higher education or working specialty, take advanced courses in foreign languages, get a personal watercraft (PWC) driving licence. Learning foreign languages Second higher education or working specialty Personal watercraft (PWC) driving licence