Dnipro State Medical University was founded on September 15, 1916, from the Ekaterynoslavsky Higher Female Courses Institute.

On March 16, 2021, the government of Ukraine through the Ministry of Health of Ukraine order # 473 ordered the name of the institution to be changed to Dnipro State Medical University.

Foreign students study here in English Medium and are mostly from India, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Qatar, Oman, Morocco, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 33 other countries from Asia, Africa and from Europe.

[citation needed] It has 4500 students and since its creation has trained about 49,000 doctors, dentists, pharmacists and nurses.

There is a wide post-graduate course, involving Ukrainian and foreign young doctors.