V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe. Founded in 1804, on the initiative of the prominent educator V.N. Karazin. The University is multi-disciplinary offering courses in many subjects including medicine.

The total University enrollment amounts to about 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 400 postgraduate students. The University employs up to 1,500 faculty and research staff, including more than 200 doctors of sciences, full professors, and almost 800 PhDs, associate professors.

V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University is involved in extensive international cooperation and is an active member of the international community of leading European and world universities. It cooperates with 61 partners in 25 countries of the world.

Together with other major European universities, in 1988 Kharkiv National University signed the Great University Charter that initiated the Bologna Process.

The University is a co-founder of the Eurasian University Association and is a member the World and the European University Associations.