Today National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute" (NTU "KhPI") is the biggest educational institution of Eastern Ukraine and the biggest university of Kharkiv. The University’s students number over 22,000. The NTU "KhPI" has been accredited as a university of the highest 4th level. It trains full-time students for 73 qualifications and offers 40 qualifications for correspondence students.

The University has 21 full-time departments, a department of long-distance learning, a preparation department, a training centre for foreign citizens, an inter-branch institute for professional development and 3 scientific research and design institutes.

The NTU “KhPI” comprises the Institute of Tank Troops named after Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and a machine-building vocational school. The University’s teaching staff numbers about 1,300 people, of whom there are 160 Doctors of Philosophy and professors, 760 associate professors and candidates of sciences.

In 2007 the University received the prize of Vietnamese President Nguyen Chi Thanh.

The University consists of 21 departments:

• Department of Automatics and Instrument Making
• Department of Business and Finance
• Department of Military Training
• Department of Economics
• Department of Computer Science and Management
• Department of Electric Power
• Department of Electric Engineering
• Department of Energy and Engineering
• Department of Physics and Engineering
• Department of Comprehensive Training
• Department of Integrated Technologies and Chemical Engineering
• Department of Computer Science and Management
• Department of Information Technology
• Department of Machine-building
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of German and Engineering
• Department of Inorganic Matter Technology
• Department of Organic Matter Technology
• Department of Transport Engineering
• Department of Long-Distance Learning