Environmental Studies

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

• use a range of IT, multimedia and other cutting-edge educational and laboratory equipment;
• 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;
• proceed to a master’s degree programme;
• be trained by expert teaching staff holding doctoral degrees as well as professional awards and titles granted by the Russian government.

We offer our students internships and work placement in:

• the cutting-edge agrobiological facility in Vyritsa in the suburbs of Saint Petersburg;
• the 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:

• environmental specialist;
• geologist;
• nature manager;
• environmental protection expert, etc.

Our alumni land jobs in:

• research institutions;
• production facilities;
• marketing agencies;
• consulting firms;
• secondary, vocational and higher education institutions;
• federal governing bodies;
• Russia’s regional governing bodies in charge of nature management and environmental protection;
• environmental monitoring agencies.