It enjoys Level IV accreditation, which is the highest under Ukraine's national standards, and is licensed to train foreign students.

That was another step into the future; it confirmed integration into the European system of education and contributed to the strengthening of the university's international credibility.

The undergraduate degree programs take four years and the graduate degree programs – 1 year Academic majors are piano, strings, brass, woodwinds, folk instruments, variety arts and jazz, composition, orchestral and choral conducting, organ, percussion, academic singing, musicology, theatre studies, drama and cinema acting, stage directing, acting and directing of the theatre of animation.

To get a master's degree foreign students must defend a qualification paper and take an exam in the Ukrainian (or Russian) language.

Statin offers educational opportunities in performance studies to help students develop their creativity and to prepare them for careers in music.

Its deep long-standing traditions took shape under the influence of L. Kurbas, I. Maryanenko, D. Antonovich, M. Krushelnytsky, V. Afanasyev, A. Pletnyov and A. Gorbenko and many other famous coryphaei of theatre art.

During the study they take PhD exams, participate in research conferences and after completing the postgraduate course program they get an additional year to get ready for the thesis defense.

It actively participates in international collaboration with arts schools in Cincinnati (USA), Nuremberg, Leipzig (Germany), Naples (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Helsinki (Finland), Brussels (Belgium), Lublin (Poland), Vancouver (Canada), Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don (Russia) as well as music colleges of Spain and drama schools of Poland, France, Russia, etc.

Such renowned musicians as Sergei Krivonos (USA), Krzysztof Penderecki, Grzegorz Syerochynsky (Poland), Timothy Reynish (Great Britain), Burkhard Rempe (Germany), and Volodymyr Lukashev (Ukraine) are honourable Doctors of Kharkov National I. P. Kotlyarevsky University of Arts.