Biotechnology (PhD.)
- Field of study: biotechnology
- Form of study: PART-TIME or FULL-TIME
- Degree of study: 3rd, PhD.
- Length of study: for the FULL-TIME form 4 years / for the PART-TIME form 5 years
- Teaching language: Slovak
Learning objectives and graduate profile
The study program 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, emphasizes the link between research - development - application and evaluation of one's own contribution to practice. Also, the graduate's creative activity in the field of biotechnology. The graduate has an active command of a foreign language (English), is able to work in a team, forecast developments in his field. As part of his studies, he deepens his knowledge of biotechnology, biology and analytical chemistry, learns the principles of scientific work, forms of processing and presentation of results. He gains experimental skill and experience working with modern instruments. He will learn to search, process and interpret information from available sources (scientific databases, professional publications). He can process, publish and present the obtained results at scientific events. Students are also involved in solving scientific projects, thereby developing and deepening the principles of scientific work, solving complex problems, analytical and synthetic thinking, and a sense of teamwork.
The result of the individual subjects is a comprehensive, four, or in the case of external studies five, years, elaborated dissertation within the scope defined in the Law on Universities of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic. The result of education is competence, i.e. the student acquires the ability to:
- identify a problem to find 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
- to solve problems during the solution of the experimental activity of the dissertation
- propose appropriate procedures for modifying the experiment
- to work independently in the laboratory, but also to work in a team
- communicate with experts within his dissertation topic, but also related topics
- to present their results in front of experts in the form of presentations and discussions
- publish results in the form of publications in scientific journals of high quality and reach.
Graduates of doctoral studies are able to research biomolecules and biological systems, as well as to use them practically, they know how to independently manage individual operations related to their targeted use in the agricultural-food, pharmaceutical-medical and chemical-environmental fields, as well as in the field of industrial use of renewable raw materials, they have enough theoretical knowledge and practical experience necessary to carry out laboratory but also production activities and evaluate the obtained data and they know how to communicate with an equivalent level of management and they also have knowledge of the economic, legal, ethical and environmental aspects of biotechnologies, which enable them to apply at the middle level of functional activities in scientific research, but also in the production and business sphere.
Graduates of the Biotechnology study program can find 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 (SAS, universities, departments of health, agriculture and forestry, food industry, environment, etc. ), as well as directly in production practice. They are ready to meet the requirements of specialized institutions requiring work in the field, primarily in workplaces dedicated to modern biotechnologies, as well as environmentally oriented workplaces, and are also applicable in state and local government institutions.
Graduates are also widely employed in private companies and industrial enterprises with an innovation-technological orientation in biotechnology, but also in related fields.
Professions:
- Researcher,
- Laboratory diagnostician,
- Product Specialist,
- Chemical production operator,
- Raw material intake worker,
- Kvasser/distiller production worker,
- Production technician,
- quality controller,
- Specialist in research and development,
- technologist,
- agronomist,
- Sanitation and hygiene specialist.
Conditions for Admission for Full-time and Part-time Study
Requirements for Applicants, Selection Process, and Recommended Personal Qualities:
The number of students admitted to the study program: 4 (full-time) / 5 (part-time)
The requirements for applicants and the selection process are generally outlined in §§ 56 to 58 of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education, with further details specified in the Study Regulations of UCM in Trnave and the Admission Procedure Regulations of UCM in Trnava.
The basic condition for admission to doctoral studies is a master's degree (second level higher education) as per § 56, paragraph 3 of Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and amendments to certain laws. Graduates of domestic or foreign universities who have completed a master's or engineering program may apply for admission.
The admission process at the Faculty of Education of UCM is conducted in accordance with Act No. 131/2002 Coll. on Higher Education and amendments to certain laws, §§ 56 to 58. The admission process allows an applicant who demonstrates fulfillment of the stipulated conditions for admission to become a student in the chosen study program. The student applies for one of the announced dissertation topics and prepares a framework project related to the topic. An applicant who does not demonstrate fulfillment of the basic conditions for admission at the time of verification may be conditionally admitted to the program, with the obligation to meet the basic conditions by the day set for enrollment. Applications for university studies are accepted during the period published on the faculty's website. During the admission process for doctoral studies, an admission interview will take place, conducted in the form of a conversation where the applicant presents their motivations, the project related to their dissertation topic, and their qualifications for study, as well as their knowledge of a foreign language.
Do you have questions about the study program? Ask its main guarantor
prof. RNDr. Ján Kraic, PhD.
: jan.kraic@ucm.sk