IT Education in Ukraine
 According to the poll carried out by the portal hh.ua in May 2011 each fifth user of the portal would have chosen IT specialty for the studying if he/she had been school-leaver now. Indeed, for IT specialists the employer provides the best working conditions. Average salaries offered by employers for IT specialists are higher then in other branches in Ukraine. (IT Salaries Review). On the labour market there is a stable and high demand for IT specialists – all this makes IT education perspective and attractive for intellectual youth.
Technical Specialties in Institutes of Higher Education in Ukraine
About 103 IHE in Ukraine provide services of the education in information technologies sphere. IT education in Ukraine can be obtained at the following specialties:
Name of training branch | Area of Training | Specialty name | System sciences and cybernetics
| Applied mathematics
| Applied mathematics | Computer mathematics | | Mathematical and computer modeling | Cryptography | Informatics
| Informatics | Applied informatics | Social informatics | Informational-communication technologies | System analysis
| System analysis and control | Systems and methods of decision making | Informatics and computer engineering
| Computer sciences
| Information management systems and technologies | Information technologies of designing | System designing | Systems of artificial intelligence | Computer ecology-economical monitoring | Computer and engineering
| Computer systems and networks | System programming | Specialized computer systems | Program engineering
| Systems software | Software engineering | Automation and control
| Systems engineering
| Computerized control systems and automatics | Computerized robot-technical systems | Computer systems of moving objects control (according to the types of vehicles) | Automation and computer-integrated technologies
| Automated control of technical processes | Computer-integrated technological processes and manufacturing | Automatics and automation on transport (according to the types of vehicles) |
The Best Technical Universities of Ukraine
 Several institutions of Ukraine, who train IT specialists have been included into TOP 12000 of international rating Webometrics. It has been carried out by Cybermetrics Lab (http://www.webometrics.info/ ), which is a part of research group CSIC, under Spanish Ministry of Education. Among the establishments which have been included into ratings are Kiev National University of Taras Shevchenko, Donetsk National Technical University, Kharkiv National University by Karazin. However, according to the data by developers.org.ua portal , the developers thinks that best Ukrainian higher educational establishments which provide IT education are Kiev KPI and University by Taras Shevchenko, Lviv Polytechnics, Kharkiv KHNURE, Odessa Polytechnic and Donetsk DNTU.
In average, each year, more 12 000 of IT specialists are graduate from higher educational establishments in Ukraine.
Other Possibilities of Training
A majority of students during study start work by occupation or similar to the specialty sphere in order to get practical experience. Among the IT specialties undergraduates the free lance is wide-speared, and also full employment or underemployment in IT companies.
Besides graduates of IT specialties, the graduates of other specialties become programmers as well. Self-studying is wide-speared among IT specialists and the one who would like to become them. Besides self-studying for the study and professional development of IT specialists in Ukraine there are a number of IT communities, training centers, courses and certification centers. Each year the international conferences under the direction of such world famous brands like Microsoft, Oracle, CISCO etc are carried out. Anyone has a possibility to learn something, as well as pass the exams and get certified by Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat, Cisco, IBM,Novell, Sun Microsystem, PMP, Scrum and others.
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