Stepan Gzhytskyi National University of Veterinary Medicine and Biotechnologies, located in Pekarska street, 50, Lviv is a complex of education, science, close cooperation with agricultural production and education of future specialists in the spirit of patriotism and cultural wealth.

The University provides educational services in such areas: veterinary science, food technology and engineering, technology of producing and processing livestock products, fish industry and aquaculture, specific categories (quality, standardization and certification), economics and business, management and administration, ecology, environment protection and law.

59 branches of departments were established, based on the best scientific institutions and production units (companies, enterprises, associations).

The University provides training of specialists for the state budget, preferential government loans, funds of individuals and entities.

Recently, it has become a good tradition to refer the best students of the University for Practice to United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Ireland.

In Austria, Emperor Joseph II introduced educational reform, according to which there were only three universities on the territory of empire: in Vienna, Prague and Lviv.

Before World War I at the Academy worked such famous professors as Stanisław Królikowski, Włodzimierz Kulczycki (Volodymyr Kulchytskyj), Zygmunt Markowski, Paweł Kretowicz and Teofil Hołobut.

He was a famous Polish biochemist, talented academic and public figure, literature critic, expert in arts and music and a sportsman.

He also made a great influence on scientific progress of Ukrainian scientist S. Gzhytskyj (1900–1976) and the University was named in his honour.

German administration turned Lviv higher schools into professional courses to lower the quality of Slavic specialists.

Educational research and production centers of the University are located in farming towns of Lviv region: ERPC "Komarnivskyj" – in Horodok' district at a distance of 50 km from the city, ERPC "Davydivskyj" – in Pustomyty' district at a distance of 10 km from the city.

Nowadays there are 5 faculties at the University: A centre of artistic amateur performances is a separate structural unit, which is the basis of specialists training in the field of organization and conducting of cultural, sporting and educational actions.