===
Ukrainian SSR === • 15 April 1940 - Drohobych State Pedagogical Institute establishment (Resolution of the Ukrainian SSR № 461). • June 1941 - in connection with the
German occupation, the Institute ceased operations. • November 1944 - institution recovered as Drohobych Teachers' Institute with the following departments: a)
History; b)
Physics and
Mathematics; c) Language and Literature ("
Ukrainian language and
literature" and "Russian language and literature"). • 1947 - the first graduation ceremony of the institute. • 25 October 1952 - Teachers' Institute was reorganized into
pedagogical (Council of Ministers Decree № 2733). • 1954 - the Pedagogical Institute was named after
Ivan Franko. • 1 September 1956 - the Faculty of History liquidation. Students were transferred to the Faculty of History of
Lviv University (Order of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Education of Ukraine № 468/297, July 4, 1956). • February 1960 - merging with the Lviv Pedagogical Institute. • 1 September 1960 -
primary school teachers training faculty establishment (Ministry of Education Decree № 266/98, 31 May 1960). • 6 February 1962 - general scientific faculty establishment (Ministry of Education Decree № 15-23). • 3 and 7 July 1962 - the Faculty of Foreign Languages and
Music Education Faculty opening (Ministry of Education Decree № 137). • 30 January 1968 - the general scientific department liquidation (Ministry of Education Decree № 17). • 24 July 1968 - primary school teachers training faculty ceased operations and resumed in 1979 (Ministry of Education Decree № 202). • 3 July 1978 - establishment of Department of general technical disciplines teaching (Ministry of Education Decree № 157). === Post-
Declaration === • 1992/1993 - Faculty of
Management and
Marketing / department of History opening • 11 June 1992 - first post-graduates of
Philology and
Physical Sciences (Ministry of Education Decree № 193). • 10 December 1997 - Faculty of
Physical Education established (Ministry of Education Decree № 438). • 1 September 1998 - Faculty of Biology established in
Truskavets (Ministry of Education Decree № 22). • 4 September 1998 - the
institute gained
university status (Cabinet of Ministers Decree № 1382). • 1 September 1999 -
Social Sciences and
Humanities Faculty establishment. Sambor (Ministry of Education Decree № 413). • 24 November 1999 - Faculty of
postgraduate education establishment (Ministry of Education Decree № 397). • 13 June 2004 - Faculty (now Institute) of
Physics and
Mathematics establishment (Ministry of Education Decree № 457). • 16 February 2009 - first permanent doctoral specialty introduced (Ministry of Education Decree № 187). • 12 May 2009 - department of
Postgraduate studies was renamed to "department of doctoral and graduate studies". • June 2010 - the University gained the fourth level of accreditation by Ministry of Education. ==International ties==