The article analyzes the historical development of higher education in Ukraine during the XVII–XIX centuries, its historical and legal peculiarities are determined. Particular attention is paid to the formation and development of humanitarian university education, which laid the foundation for domestic higher education and served as a source of leading ideas over several centuries of its development. It is proved that the genesis of higher education covers the second half of the 16th – the beginning of the 21st century, that is, the time from the birth of the first higher Ukrainian schools that operated in the Commonwealth to modern European-level universities in Ukraine.
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