Transcarpathian State University (also known as ZakDU or TSU, Ukrainian: Закарпатський Державний Університет (ЗакДУ)), in the city of Uzhhorod, is one of the major universities in Zakarpatska Oblast. It was founded as Uzhhorod State Institute of Information Sciences, Economics and Law (UzhDIIEP). The university consists of 5 faculties and 5 general university departments: The Distance Learning Center is a component of TcSU. The university trains its students in the following fields and specialties: There is a postgraduate department in ten specialties (day-time and correspondence learning) in the university: Material and technical base of the university includes 7 computer classrooms, laboratories of informational teaching technologies, a publishing center, centers of electronic communication, local computer and TV networks, a training laboratory for Criminal Law Science, a library and information center with a considerable fund of modern scientific and training literature of 200,000 items and the biggest in the region reading hall, linguaphone labs equipped with computer audio and video complexes, a codification center for Law Sciences.