An educational complex with a total area of 10,000 square meters will be built in Lviv on Malynova Street. This will be a 10-storey building for the IT University “IT Step University”, which is created by the STEP Computer Academy. It will work not only for university students, but also for school students, since it is planned to build a specialized secondary school there. As the Academy reported to AIN.UA, the total investment in the project is estimated at $10 million.
According to the campus project, more than 1,000 students will be able to study in classes. In addition, the IT complex will contain laboratories, conference rooms, co-working for students, a gym, a dining room and a parking lot. It will be available to hold conferences, forums and hackathons for the IT community there.
IT Step University is a specialized university created on the basis of the Academy, it has a license from the Ministry of Education for the preparation of bachelors and masters in specialized fields.
The university has been operating for the third year now, it had two admissions of undergraduate students (about 100 people) and a pre-university training program (more than 150 people). Education at the university is paid, and the teachers are specialists from the IT-companies with experience in the industry. University studies include software development, web design, networks and cybersecurity, Internet of Things, email marketing, etc.
The construction of the complex is planned to begin in 2019 and the project will be implemented in one stage.
