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Biotechnology (Master) FULL-TIME

17488

Master of Biotechnology and Bioengineering

2 years

120

7

Second (Master)

Chemical and bioengineering

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Presence of the first level of higher education and bachelor's degree. Categories of persons subject to special conditions of participation in the competitive selection for higher education on the basis of complete general secondary education in accordance with the Rules of Admission to the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2022.

Persons with bachelor's, master's or specialist's degree are admitted to study for master's degree.
A person may enter the University to obtain master's degree on the basis of bachelor's, master's or specialist’s degree obtained in another specialty, provided that entrance examinations are completed successfully.

Academic qualification is awarded on the condition of successful mastery of the educational components of the program, successful completion of the comprehensive examination and public defense of the final qualification thesis. Professional qualification 2211.2 Biotechnologist is awarded by the decision of commission.

LO01. To be able to perform a patent search to find and process relevant scientific and technical information; to make an application for the invention on one’s own. LO02. To know national and international legislation. To be able to protect one’s intellectual property and avoid infringements of other people's intellectual property. LO03. To perform technical and economic calculations of design and engineering solutions, analyze and estimate their effectiveness, environmental and social consequences for the short-term and long-term outlooks. LO04. To be able to choose and apply the most suitable methods of mathematical modeling and optimization while developing scientific and technical projects. LO05. To know molecular organization and gene expression regulation, replication, recombination and repair, restriction and modification of genetic material in pro- and eukaryotes, strategy of creating recombinant DNA for targeted construction of biological agents. LO06. To know and estimate main methods of cultivation of eukaryotic cells of animal and plant origin; to develop new technologies for their application for scientific purposes in medicine, agriculture, etc. LO07. To master skills to isolate, identify, preserve, cultivate, immobilize biological agents, optimize nutrient media, choose the best methods of analysis, isolation, and purification of the target products by applying modern biotechnological approaches and techniques according to the specific area of biotechnology. LO08. To plan and manage research, scientific and technical, and/or manufacturing projects in the field of biotechnology, based on current trends in science, technology and society. LO09. To be able to develop, justify and apply methods and means for protecting an individual and the environment from hazardous factors of technogenic and biological origin. The rest of the learning outcomes can be found in the attached Program Profile.

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Current (testing, presentation / report assessment, calculation tasks, laboratory reports, etc.) and final control is carried out in the form of credits / differentiated credits, written, oral, or combined examinations in educational components (including the defence of report after the vocational and vocational pre-diploma practice, public defence of the master’s qualification thesis, a comprehensive examination. The final assessment of learning outcomes is carried out according to the common 100-marks scale. The minimum threshold level of assessment for an educational component is 60% of the maximum possible number of marks. The scale of marks correspondence: Excellent 90-100 Good 75-89 Satisfactory 60-74 Unsatisfactory 1-59 Pass 60-100 Fail 0-59

The purpose of the program is the formation of general and special competencies for the organization and conduct of biotechnological research, design and technology, production and technology work, of skills and abilities in the future professional activities; giving students the ability to independently plan and perform tasks, perform tasks and solve problems of a research and innovative nature, be responsible for the results of their activities, and prepare students for further employment. The realization of this objective is ensured by laboratory work in individual disciplines, specialized/profile laboratory practice, educational, vocational and undergraduate practice; conducting research in the laboratories of the institute or research partner institutions in Ukraine and, in the exercise of the right to academic mobility, in leading educational or research institutions in other countries.

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The professional activity of graduates is connected with the biotechnological profile at enterprises of various types of activity and subordination; control, diagnostic, forensic, environmental laboratories; research institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, institutions of the system of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture. Independent employment search.

The possibility of studying under the program of the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education; in-service training; retraining; postgraduate education; academic mobility.