Editing Odesa (section)

== Education ==
[[File:Odesa National scientific library-03.jpg|thumb|The [[Odesa National Scientific Library]] is a major research library and the centre for studies in southern Ukraine.]]
Odesa is home to several universities and other institutions of higher education. The city's best-known and most prestigious university is the [[Odesa University|Odesa 'I.I. Mechnykov' National University]]. This university is the oldest in the city and was first founded by an edict of Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]] in 1865 as the Imperial [[Novorossiya Governorate|Novorossian]] University. Since then the university has developed to become one of modern Ukraine's leading research and teaching universities, with staff of around 1,800 and total of thirteen academic faculties. Other than the National University, the city is also home to the 1921-inaugurated [[Odesa National Economics University|Odesa National Economic University]], the [[Odesa National Medical University]] (founded 1900), the 1918-founded [[Odesa National Polytechnic University]].

In addition to these universities, the city is home to the [[National University Odesa Law Academy|National University "Odesa Law Academy"]], the National Academy of Telecommunications, the [[Odesa State Environmental University]] and the [[National University «Odesa Maritime Academy»|Odesa National Maritime Academy]]. The last of these institutions is a highly specialised and prestigious establishment for the preparation and training of merchant mariners which sees around 1,000 newly qualified officer cadets graduate each year and take up employment in the [[merchant marine]]s of numerous countries around the world. The South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University is also based in the city, this is one of the largest institutions for the preparation of educational specialists in Ukraine and is recognised as one of the country's finest of such universities.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In addition to all the state-run universities mentioned above, Odesa is also home to many private educational institutes and academies which offer highly specified courses in a range of different subjects.

With regard to primary and secondary education, Odesa has many schools catering for all ages from kindergarten through to lyceum (final secondary school level) age. Most of these schools are state-owned and operated, and all schools have to be state-accredited in order to teach children.