The Faculty of Philology with its rich traditions and qualified teaching staff is one of the youngest at the university. It originates from the Faculty of History and Philology, where more than 1,000 qualified specialists were prepared over the period of its existence. The history of the Faculty is associated with such famous writers and researches as S. I. Oliinyk, R. M. Volkov, S. S. Dlozhevsyi and others...

The Institute of Postgraduate Education and Certification is the successor of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education and Work with Foreign Citizens that was founded on 27 September, 2009. Currently, it has three divisions: the Division of Personnel Retraining, the Division of Further Training, and Preparatory Division for Foreigners...

The Faculty of Foreign Languages was founded as Philology Faculty on 12 July, 1930. At present, it is a prestigious centre for training future teachers of foreign languages and literature as well as translators/interpreters in the southern region of Ukraine...

The Institute of Physical Education, Sports and Rehabilitation is one of the prominent centres for training future teachers in Odesa region, which was founded as the faculty of physical education in 1947...

The Faculty of Music and Choreography has rich traditions and considerable experience in training competent teaching staff in the sphere of artistic education. Since 1 September, 1966, it has become one of the most important centres for children and youth’s aesthetic education, development of research on the issues of music and choreographic education, art history, artistic culture...

The Faculty of Physics and Mathematics was founded on 12 June, 1930. Now it is an important educational and research centre of the South of Odesa region. About 7,000 graduates have become teachers of physics, mathematics, computer science, economics at institutions of general education, higher education and research. More than 50 of them are Honoured Teachers, Honoured Workers of Science and Education of Ukraine; about 100 graduates have become Doctors of Sciences and professors...

The Faculty of Psychological Education was the first to educate psychologists in the south of Ukraine. Presently, students of the Faculty obtain education in the specialties “Psychology”, “Management” (public administration in education). Besides, they have an opportunity to obtain Bachelor’s degree in the specialties “Law”, “Political Science” (with a concentration in political technology), “Journalism” (advertising and public relations)...

The Faculty of Preschool Pedagogy and Psychology is amongst the leading centres for preparing specialists of preschool education and implementing research on theory and methods of preschool, family and special education, speech pathology...

The Subfaculty of History and Philosophy belonging to the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities provides training of specialists in the specialties “Philosophy”, “Secondary Education (History)”, “Theology”, “Museum Studies, Landmark Studies”, “Management of Sociocultural Activity”, “Social Studies”. Graduates of the Subfaculty work at general and higher educational institutions, mass-media, state and local administrative bodies, social services; they take postgraduate and doctoral training programmes in various Ukrainian and European universities...

The Faculty of Primary Education is a genuine educational research and methodology centre for training primary school teachers, English teachers for primary schools, psychologists for educational institutions as well as social care teachers...

The development of art pedagogical education in Ukraine began in 1965 with the opening of the Faculty of Arts and Graphics at the university. Over this period, almost 3,000 teachers of Fine Arts, Technical Drawing and Artistic Labour have been educated...