General Biology

• The focus on the natural environment and wildlife as well as their regularities
• The use of biological systems in economic and medical applications
• Wildlife management

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 are well-placed to:

• provide an analysis-driven identification of subject matter, objectives and methods of research in biology;
• process the obtained data, draw conclusions and provide practical recommendations based on the research outcomes;
• land a job as a research fellow;
• master new tools and technology in biology research.
• proceed to a doctoral programme and obtain a doctoral degree.

Our alumni land jobs in:

• research institutions;
• environmental organisations;
• biotechnological production facilities.