[2] The host government granted the UFU full academic accreditation and provided the university with financial support.

Federal German and Bavarian governmental financial support contributed towards worthwhile research, publishing and teaching activities.

The university became a recognized Western European scholarly centre, specializing in the study of Ukraine within the USSR and of Ukrainians in the diaspora.

German and Bavarian financial aid ceased in the years following Ukrainian independence, as it was assumed that patronage of the university would be assured by Ukraine.

[2] UFU is the only private university in the world which, while located outside of Ukraine, offers graduate programs of study in the social sciences and the humanities, primarily in the Ukrainian language.

Most UFU faculty members also hold simultaneously permanent academic positions at European Union, American, Canadian or Ukrainian institutions of higher learning.