Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU, formerly Donetsk Polytechnic Institute and other names) is the biggest and oldest higher education establishment in Donbas, founded in 1921. In its early years, it was attended by Nikita Khrushchev.

Following the loss of Ukrainian government control over Donetsk in 2014 during the war in Donbass, the University was evacuated to Pokrovsk.

A small group of collaborationists among the faculty have claimed to continue to operate as the Donetsk National Technical University in the campus in Russian-occupied Donetsk, as a project aimed to legitimize the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, however diplomas they issued weren't recognized even in Russia itself and local students were officially enrolled as correspondent students at minor provincial Russian universities. Following the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the university appears to have been discontinued.

On 28 February 2024, the university building in Pokrovsk was partially destroyed by Russian missile attack.

Structure

Donetsk National Technical University (DonNTU) is the first higher education establishment in the Donbas Region and one of the first technical universities in Ukraine. 27,000 students study at 7 faculties, 60 specialities being their major. There are 28 correspondent members and academicians of the engineering academies, 18 honorary researchers and professors among the academics of the university. A number of scientists of DonNTU are honorary and full members of foreign organizations and academies. There are professors and students whose work was supported by the Soros Fund.

DPI team

From 1987—1996, the university had a group known as the DPI team [ru] participating in the popular comedic game-show KVN. It contained a number of figures, made up of students who were studying at the university and would later become prominent within Ukrainian society, including Ismail Abdullaiev and Serhii Syvokho [uk].

Collaboration

• DonNTU has more than 70 collaboration agreements with universities all over the world.
• There is an office of the Siemens company at the university.
• At the three engineering faculties (German, French, and English) students are trained in the appropriate foreign language.
• A Polish faculty has been established.
• Thirty professors from foreign universities are Honorary Doctors of DonNTU.
• The university has a reading room sponsored by the Goethe Institute, Germany.

Donetsk National Technical University is a member of the EAU (European Association of Universities).

DonNTU is a member of

• UICEE – The International Engineering Education Centre sponsored by UNESCO, Melbourne, Australia
• EAIE – European Association of International Education
• EAAU – Euro-Asian Association of Universities
• SEFI – European Association of Engineering Education
• IGIP – International Association of Engineering Education (Austria)
• COFRAMA – French Council on Management links development with the countries of the CIS and Russia (Lion, France); PRELUDE – International Association of Research and links with universities (Belgium)
• CEUME – Consortium of Management Education in Ukraine (the US, Poland)
• URAN – Ukrainian Educational and Research Network sponsored by the NATO and German Research Network

DonNTU is a participant in the following international programmes:

• TEMPUS-TACIS NCD-JEP – 23125-2002 European Studios; DAAD Eastern Partnerships (Germany)
• Stipend of the International Board of the Ministry of Education and Science (the German Aerodynamics Center)
• BWTZ-Programm (Germany, the Ministry of Science)
• INTAS – Publishing House (Germany)
• BMEU/CEUME Business - Management - Education (USA, Poland)
• The Jozef Mihknowski Science Development Fund (Poland)
• Students Exchange Programmes AIESEC (Poland)
• Grant from the Ministry of Education and Sports, Poland
• Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia)
• Programme Dnipro (France)
• Grant of the Special School of Social Works, Construction and Industry (ESTP), (France)
• Grant from the government of Czech Republic
• SIDA – Master and Bachelor programme Sandwich (Sweden)

Gallery

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  Faculty of Economics and Management. Placed in Artema avenue, the main avenue in Donetsk city.
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  Library of Donetsk National Technical University. Placed beside the municipality of Donetsk.
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  University building in Pokrovsk
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  The building in Pokrovsk after Russian strike