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Top 25 universities in Ukraine

The 25 leading universities and higher education institutions in Ukraine, ordered by the citations their research has received. Part of the WAC University Directory.

25 institutions listed · data October 2026

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  1. 1

    Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU)

    Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

    • 55,375 research works
    • 626 thousand citations
    • h-index 185
  2. 2

    Sumy State University (SSU)

    Sumy, Ukraine

    • 14,370 research works
    • 279 thousand citations
    • h-index 134
  3. 3

    Lviv Polytechnic National University

    Lviv, Ukraine

    • 36,066 research works
    • 262 thousand citations
    • h-index 95
  4. 4

    V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

    Kharkiv, Kharkivs’ka Oblast’, Ukraine

    • 29,106 research works
    • 232 thousand citations
    • h-index 115
  5. 5

    Lviv University

    Lviv, Ukraine

    • 34,406 research works
    • 212 thousand citations
    • h-index 113
  6. 6

    National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (KPI)

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    • 39,971 research works
    • 211 thousand citations
    • h-index 106
  7. 7

    Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University (IFNMU)

    Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

    • 6,199 research works
    • 110 thousand citations
    • h-index 59
  8. 8

    National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (KPI)

    Kharkiv, Ukraine

    • 20,905 research works
    • 109 thousand citations
    • h-index 79
  9. 9

    National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP)

    Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

    • 18,945 research works
    • 98 thousand citations
    • h-index 79
  10. 10

    Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University

    Chernivtsi, Ukraine

    • 13,805 research works
    • 93 thousand citations
    • h-index 75
  11. 11

    Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University

    Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

    • 11,781 research works
    • 91 thousand citations
    • h-index 109
  12. 12

    Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (ONU)

    Odesa, Ukraine

    • 14,544 research works
    • 89 thousand citations
    • h-index 98
  13. 13

    Uzhhorod National University (UzhNU)

    Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia, Ukraine

    • 14,508 research works
    • 79 thousand citations
    • h-index 71
  14. 14

    Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (LNMU)

    Lviv, Ukraine

    • 9,580 research works
    • 78 thousand citations
    • h-index 107
  15. 15

    Bogomolets National Medical University (BNMU)

    Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

    • 14,266 research works
    • 77 thousand citations
    • h-index 88
  16. 16

    National University "Kyiv Aviation Institute" (KAI)

    Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

    • 19,127 research works
    • 76 thousand citations
    • h-index 58
  17. 17

    Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (NURE)

    Kharkiv, Kharkivs’ka Oblast’, Ukraine

    • 10,693 research works
    • 66 thousand citations
    • h-index 58
  18. 18

    Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

    Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

    • 14,524 research works
    • 65 thousand citations
    • h-index 70
  19. 19

    National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute (KhAI)

    Kharkiv, Kharkivs’ka Oblast’, Ukraine

    • 6,568 research works
    • 59 thousand citations
    • h-index 62
  20. 20

    I.Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University (TSMU)

    Ternopil, Ukraine

    • 10,711 research works
    • 49 thousand citations
    • h-index 63
  21. 21

    V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

    Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine

    • 7,951 research works
    • 45 thousand citations
    • h-index 63
  22. 22

    West Ukrainian National University (TNEU)

    Ternopil, Ukraine

    • 10,405 research works
    • 44 thousand citations
    • h-index 58
  23. 23

    Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture (KNUCA)

    Kyiv, Kyiv City, Ukraine

    • 9,703 research works
    • 43 thousand citations
    • h-index 53
  24. 24

    Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology (УДХТУ)

    Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

    • 2,834 research works
    • 41 thousand citations
    • h-index 80
  25. 25

    Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University

    Lutsk, Volyn, Ukraine

    • 7,731 research works
    • 39 thousand citations
    • h-index 52

Ordered by total research citations recorded in OpenAlex (October 2026). Works, citations and h-index are OpenAlex figures for the institution. How the list is made.

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The directory lists 1436 universities, colleges and higher education institutions in 199 countries and territories. In countries with 200 or more higher education institutions recorded in OpenAlex it lists the top 25; everywhere else, the top 5.

Institutions are ordered by the total number of citations their research has received, as recorded in OpenAlex, the open catalogue of the world’s research, with data taken in October 2026. This is a transparent, research-based order: it favours large research institutions and does not measure teaching quality, student experience or graduate outcomes. University systems are left out in favour of their campuses, and faculties or institutes are left out when their parent university is already listed. Names, cities and websites come from OpenAlex and the Research Organization Registry (ROR).

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