General Biology

The programme is designed to provide students with an opportunity to:

• be trained by expert teaching staff holding doctoral degrees as well as professional awards and titles granted by the Russian government;
• use a range of IT, multimedia and other cutting-edge educational equipment;
• work in specially-equipped classrooms as well as educational laboratories of the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry, and Physics;
• access the resources of the Zoological Museum, the Museum of Anatomy, and the herbaria of the Department of Botany;
• work in the education and research laboratory of the Department of Human and Animal Anatomy and Physiology as well as the students’ laboratory of the Department of Zoology;
• take part in experimental research conducted at the Faculty departments and the Laboratory for Experimental Zoology;
• make use of the hardware and software package by ADInstruments and the Pirogov interactive dissection table, etc.
• conduct research in biology.

We offer our students internships and work placement in:

• the cutting-edge agrobiological facility in Vyritsa in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg;
• research facility of the A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Crimea;
• research laboratories of the Faculty of Biology and other research institutes based in Saint Petersburg.

Our alumni work in the following positions:

• biologist;
• virologist;
• anthropologist, etc.

Our alumni land jobs in:

• research institutions;
• research and production facilities;
• design organisations.