Following Request by Ukraine’s Ministry of Education, American Online University Opens All of Its Courses to Ukrainian Students

Following a request by the Ukrainian Ministry of Education, University of the People has decided to open all of its courses to Ukrainian students whose universities have closed due to the Russian invasion. These students will be able to continue their progress in their studies uninterrupted because UoPeople is an online institution and students can take courses anywhere, at any time. UoPeople also responded to a request by UNESCO to provide 1,000 Ukrainian students with scholarships to pursue their studies online.

“I’m paralyzed with fear. My city, which is Mykolaiv, has been bombed several times. This is our sixth day in a bomb shelter. Air raids happen every hour. The Russian troops are only 50 kilometers from my city,” said University of the People graduate student Kateryna Glubochenko, a Ukrainian mother of a 10-year-old and who is eight months pregnant, in an email. “As for my studies, I will try to continue them while I still have an internet connection. This is the only way for me to calm down a bit and still believe I will survive all this. Studying at UoPeople is a kind of hope for me now.”

UoPeople’s accessible and flexible online degree programs are asynchronous, meaning students can study whenever and wherever they may be. Moreover, only a basic internet connection is needed for its courses – no broadband is required. UoPeople will begin accepting these students in its next academic term which starts April 7.

“The people of Ukraine are suffering tremendously due to the Russian invasion, and we want to provide them with educational lifelines so they know they will have a future when the fighting ends,” said UoPeople President Shai Reshef.

UoPeople, the first non-profit, tuition-free, American, accredited online university, currently serves more than 117,000 students from 200 countries including 10,500 refugees – more than all other U.S. colleges and universities combined. The refugees come from Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and many other nations.