Kharkiv I P Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts

Overall Ranking 2026 · Published rank #156 · 6626 points / 10,000

Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I. P. Kotlyarevsky is the leading music and drama institution of higher education in Ukraine. The university trains about 900 undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in music and theatre art. It enjoys Level IV accreditation, which is the highest under Ukraines national standards, and is licensed to train foreign students. The roots of the university can be traced back to the musical classes opened in 1871 under the aegis of the Kharkiv branch of the Imperial Russian Music Society. Kharkiv Conservatory was established in 1917, a result of professional music education development in Kharkiv. Prominent among those who stood at the origins of the conservatory were Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Alexander Glazunov, and Ilya Slatin. The conservatory was several times renamed. Since 1920 it was known as Music Academy, but in 1923 with the opening of theatre major the academy was turned into the Institute of Music and Drama, and later into Kharkiv State Conservatory (1934) and Institute of Arts (1963). All these names reflect the search for the most optimal model of artistic education.