The Lutsk National Technical University is a Ukrainian university in Lutsk at the IV accreditation level. It was founded in 1966 and is located at 75 Lvivska street, Lutsk.
The history of Lutsk NTU began in 1966, with the decision of the former Ministry for Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of the URSR, to found a branch of the General Engineering Faculty of the Kyiv Automobile and Highway Institute (now National Transport University) in Lutsk. Dmytro Konovalyak was the head of the branch.
In 1968 this branch was developed into a General Technical Faculty, and in 1971 the faculty was subordinated first to the Ukrainian Institute of Water Transport Engineering. and then to .
Owing to high rate of growth of the Volyn region's industrial potential, in 1975 the branch became the Lutsk affiliate of the Lviv Polytechnical Institute, with day, evening and distance learning. During its existence, over 2,000 engineers were trained.
The first director of the affiliate was I.Khorolskyi. Since 1977 Professor Viktor Bozhydarnik has been the Rector of the university. In 1979 the first class of mechanical engineers graduated; in 1981, the first class of civil engineers.
In 1985 the departments were reorganized into faculties. On April 1, 1991, after Ukraine became a sovereign state, the Lutsk Branch of Lviv Polytechnical Institute became the Lutsk Industrial Institute.' It consisted of four faculties, thirteen and later seventeen departments. In that year 289 graduates got their diplomas as engineers. That year it opened a post-graduate school, and received the right of awarding the candidate degrees, in addition to the degrees of Bachelor, Specialist and Master.
On 24 December 1997 a decision of the Council of Ministers changed the school to Lutsk State Technical University. then, on 11 April 2008, a Decree of the President of Ukraine, gave the university the status of National, and its present name. Lutsk National Technical University The university is the member of the Association of Universities of Black Sea Region.
Today Lutsk NTU trains specialists both by full-time training and by correspondence. a total of 7746 students.
The university has 7 faculties, 3 centres, 3 colleges, 35 departments.
The school occupies an area of 60,990,000 square meters. There are 12 well equipped educational-laboratory buildings as well as a ground and vehicle testing point.
Lutsk NTU has two sporting health-improvement tourist inns on the lakes Svityaz' and Pisochne, as well as a sports complex with a gym, two fitness centers and a room for aerobics, 25 - meters long pool and a stadium.
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