[4] Due to the quality of training and comparatively low tuition fees DNMU is an attractive study choice among Ukrainian medical universities for foreigners.

[6] Approximately 15,200 students study at the eight faculties of Donetsk National Medical University from Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, US, the UK, Germany, Poland, Greece, Israel, Turkey, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China, Malaysia, Mauritius, Pakistan, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Peru, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, Kenya, Namibia, Zambia, Somalia, Lebanon, Bahrain and other countries.

So far, the university has granted 65,000 degrees, to doctors, well-known scientists, researchers, health care providers from Ukraine, Russia, other ex-Soviet republics and 89 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

According to the Ukrainian Health Ministry Order N°148 of March 22, 2004 DNMU has been appointed as the regional centre of Bologna Process management in Ukraine.

In the 2005/06 academic year, DNMU started teaching its students in accordance with the Bologna Agreement on specialists training using the credit-modular system, which makes it possible to obtain the European Diploma at the end of the study.