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to meet requirements – вiдповiдати вимогам

to admit to – приймати до

grades – оцiнки

campus – унiверситетське мiстечко

dormitory – гуртожиток

recreation – вiдпочинок

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UNIVERSITY STUDIES

First-year students, or freshmen, at universities and colleges are usually required to take certain subjects. Among these required courses are English history or government,and physical education. In addition to the sub­jects which freshmen are obliged to take, they may choose from the following courses to complete their programs of study: history, mathematics, chemistry, physics, Span­ish, French, German, Latin, geography, journalism, busi­ness administration, economics, and engineering. The courses which students select depend, of course, on the field of study in which they want to major.

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HIGHER EDUCATION

Ukraine has more than 1000 institutions of higher learning of different levels of education. Above 1.5 million students study at those establishments. They all take entrance examinations and the best applicants are selected to be students.

There are day-time, evening and extramural departments mostly at all higher educational establishments. In state institutions higher education is free of charge for majority of full day-time students. A lot of them get allowance every month.

New types of higher educational institutions, including private colleges, institutes, Academies, Universities are being established. They are non-fee-paying higher schools supported by sponsors who finance a large proportions of initial capital costs. Both state and private institutions give students a broad higher education with a strong emphasis on special subjects with regard to future professions.

Besides special subjects students learn obligatory ones, namely philosophy, religion, foreign languages etc. They increase and broaden students’ outlook.

Among the best known higher educational establishments there are Shevchenko Kyiv National and Kharkiv National Universities and Lviv State University, International Independent University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv and Kharkiv Polytechnic Universities and many others.

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