Biotechnology (PhD.)

Learning objectives and graduate profile
The study programme encourages the principles of scientific work, its ethical and social aspects, scientific problem formulation, presentation and publication of scientific results, provides the necessary knowledge for the development of the scientific and study field, emphasises the research - development - application link and evaluation of own contribution to practice. Also, the creative activity of the graduate in the field of biotechnology. The graduate has an active knowledge of a foreign language (English), is able to work in a team, to forecast developments in his/her field. In the course of his/her studies he/she deepens his/her knowledge of biotechnology, biology and analytical chemistry, learns the principles of scientific work, forms of processing and presentation of results. He acquires experimental skills and experience in working with modern instruments. They will learn to search, process and interpret information from available sources (scientific databases, scientific publications). Can process, publish and present the results obtained at scientific events. Students are also involved in solving scientific projects, thus developing and deepening the principles of scientific work, solving complex problems, analytical and synthetic thinking, sense of teamwork.
The result of individual courses is a comprehensive dissertation within four, in the case of external study five, years, processed in the scope defined in the Act on Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic. The result of education is competence, i.e. the student acquires the ability to:

• identify a problem for finding a scientific solution

• propose a scientific hypothesis,

• verify it with a suitably set up and designed experiment or set of experiments

• evaluate the results and process them in the form of a dissertation

• solve problems during the experimental work of the dissertation

• propose appropriate procedures for modifying the experiment

• work independently in the laboratory, but also work in a team

• communicate with experts within the framework of his/her dissertation topic, but also on related topics

• present his/her results to experts in the form of presentations and discussions

• publish results in the form of publications in scientific journals of high quality and impact.

Graduates of doctoral studies are able to investigate biomolecules and biological systems as well as to use them practically, they are able to independently manage individual operations related to their targeted use in the agro-food, pharmaceutical-medical and chemical-environmental fields, as well as in the field of industrial use of renewable raw materials, have sufficient theoretical knowledge and practical experience necessary to carry out laboratory and production activities and evaluate the data obtained, and are able to communicate with an equivalent level of management, and also have knowledge of the economic, legal, ethical and environmental aspects of biotechnology, which enables them to apply themselves at the middle level of functional activities in the scientific research, but also in the production and business sphere.

Graduates of the Biotechnology study programme can seek employment in a wide range of workplaces with a biological and chemical focus in research teams, as well as in independent work with a research and technical focus (SAV, universities, health departments, agriculture and forestry, food industry, environment, etc.), as well as directly in production practice. They are prepared to meet the requirements of specialized institutions requiring field work, especially in workplaces dedicated to modern biotechnology, as well as environmentally oriented workplaces, and they will also find employment in institutions of state and local government.

Graduates also have a wide range of applications in private companies and industrial enterprises with innovative-technological orientation in biotechnology, but also in related fields.

Occupations from the profession:

• Research scientist, 

• Laboratory diagnostician, 

• Product Specialist, 

• Chemical Production Operator, 

• Raw Material Receiving Worker, 

• Fermenter/Distiller Production Worker, 

• Production Technician, 

• Quality Controller, 

• Research and Development Specialist, 

• Technologist, 

• Agronomist, 

• Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist.

Conditions of admission for DAILY and EXTERNAL form of study.

Requirements for applicants, method of selection and recommended personal qualities:

Number of students admitted to the study programme: 4 (full-time form)/5 (part-time form)
The requirements for applicants and the method of their selection are generally set out in Sections 56 to 58 of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education, and are regulated in more detail by UCM Study Regulations in Trnave and Admission Procedure

The basic condition for admission to doctoral studies is a university education of the second degree (Section 56 (3) of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and on Amendments and Supplements to Certain Acts). Graduates of domestic or foreign universities may apply for admission if they have completed a master's degree or an engineering degree.

The admission procedure at the UCM FPV is carried out in accordance with Act No 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and on Amendments and Additions to Certain Acts, Sections 56 to 58. The admission process enables an applicant who demonstrates fulfilment of the specified admission conditions to become a student of the chosen study programme. A student applying for one of the announced dissertation topics develops a framework project on the topic. An applicant who fails to demonstrate fulfilment of the basic conditions for admission to the study at the time of verification of fulfilment of the conditions for admission may be admitted to the study conditionally, with the proviso that he/she is obliged to demonstrate fulfilment of the basic conditions for admission to the study no later than on the date set for enrolment in the study.

Applications for undergraduate studies shall be accepted on the deadline published on the faculty's website. Admission to doctoral studies will be by interview, where the applicant presents his/her motives, the project on the topic of the doctoral thesis and the prerequisites for the studies, as well as his/her knowledge of a foreign language.

Description of the study programme for the full-time form of study

Description of the study programme for the EXTERNAL form of study