Natural Sciences Faculty was founded in 1999. The chairs that nowadays the Faculty consists of previously belonged to some other Facultys: the Chair of Ecology was the part of the Mechanical Faculty; the Chair of Physics and the Chair of Chemistry belonged to the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Humanities (1993-1997), then to the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (1997-1999). Together with the establishment of the Faculty the Chair of Applied Physics was founded and in 2005 – the Chair of Hydrometeorology. Now the Faculty includes the chairs of: Hydrometeorology, Ecology, Applied Physics, Physics and Chemistry. Specialists are trained according to four courses of training: ‘Hydrometeorology’, ‘Ecology, Environment Protection and Rational Usage of Natural Resources, ‘Applied Physics’ and ‘Physics’.

At Natural Sciences Faculty 403 students are studying this year, including 280 full-time students and 123 students taking correspondence courses.

The teaching staff numbers 52 specialists, among them there are seven Doctors of Sciences, 28 Candidates of Sciences and 17 senior teachers and junior members of teaching staff.