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On June 24th, the results of two international rankings of the world young universities were published: THE Young University Rankings and QS Top 50 Under 50. For the fourth year in a row, Sumy State University confirms its leading position in the ranking of young universities from QS and entered the respective ranking from Times Higher Education for the first time. Currently, SumDU remains the only representative of Ukraine in this category of rankings.
On June 12th-16th, Kyiv hosted the VIII International Music Art Competition "Kyivskyi Koloryt", which was attended by over 300 participants from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Chernihiv, Minsk, Chisinau and other cities of Ukraine and abroad. The competition was supported by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, organized by the National All-Ukrainian Music Union. The university in the competition was represented by the participants of the vocal studio of the cultural and artistic center (headed by Olha Bondarenko).
On June 16th, an online roundtable was held on “The decade of participation of Ukrainian universities in the QS ranking: problems and prospects”. The event was attended by representatives of QS Quacquarelli Symonds (Great Britain), the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and six Ukrainian universities, which entered the TOP-1000 of the QS ranking this year. Sumy State University was represented by the rector Anatoliy Vasylyev.
On June 12th-13th, the water-rowing base of SumDU held the Cup of Ukraine in ship modeling sport, models of "M" section (high-speed radio-controlled models) “The Cup of SumDU-2020".
The decision on exemplary accreditation for the bachelor's degree programme "Psychology" was made on June 16th at a meeting of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance.
For the seventh year in a row, Sumy State University entered the list of the best universities in the world, according to the QS ranking for 2020/21 academic years.
Sumy State University strives to keep up with the times and lockdown reality. So, this year's traditional advertising campaign is accompanied by an innovative solution – billboards with the use of augmented reality.
On May 29th-30th, Sumy State University hosted the International Scientific and Methodological Conference “Value-based approach in education and challenges of European integration”.
On May 21st, teachers of the Department of Journalism and Philology of the Faculty of Foreign Philology and Social Communications held an online meeting with representatives of the British public organization Ethical Journalism Network Danica Ilik and Hannah Storm.
As part of a project initiated by the delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, on May 14th-15th, the EU Information Center, based at SumDU, organized a series of debates and training, which discussed current trends in the labor market, the implementation of educational and business opportunities with the EU support.