The university was founded as Kamianets-Podilsky State Ukrainian University on October 22, 1918, under a law signed by
Pavlo Skoropadsky during his brief rule as
Hetman of Ukraine. The first rector of the university was the scientist and linguist
Ivan Ohiienko. The university consisted of five faculties: History and Philology; Physics and Mathematics; Law; Theology; and Agriculture. The defeat of the Ukrainian national liberation movement in the autumn of 1920 by the
bolsheviks determined the fate of the university: at first, it was reorganized into the Academy of Theoretical Knowledge, but on February 2, 1921 — into the Institute for Theoretical Sciences, which included three autonomous institutions: Physics and Mathematics, the Humanities and Agricultural Sciences. On February 26, 1921 the Institute for Theoretical Sciences was reorganized into two separate schools — the Institute of Public Education and Agricultural Institute. During the 1930s and 1940s the Institute of Public Education was reorganized three times — in 1930, when it was reorganized into the Institute of Social Education; in 1933–1934, into Pedagogical Institute; and in 1939, into the Institute of Teachers. Since the 1948–1949 academic year, according to the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Institute of Teachers was reorganized into the Pedagogical Institute. It was made a State Pedagogical university in 1997, a State university in 2003 and a national university named after Ivan Ohiienko in 2008. == University activity ==