EcologyandEnvironmentManagement

The Master of Ecology deals with a wide range of issues related to environmental protection and rational natural resources management, and work on ecological rationality accounts and ecological expertise of projects; environmental law; assessment of the state of natural resources and environmental monitoring; environmental modeling and prediction of the effects of various human activities; environmental impact assessment; environmental marketing and management; environmental audit; environmental and economic assessment of natural resource potential; evaluation of losses arising from environmental pollution; ecological mapping of territories using geographic information systems; environmental and engineering surveys for various types of land development; the conduction of monitoring at various facilities; comprehensive assessment of the ecological state of the natural environment at a given territory.

Master students study a wide range of disciplines, such as economic mechanisms of natural resources management, geological and ecological research methods, geological and ecological mapping, environmental monitoring, urban ecology, sustainable development, international cooperation in the field of environmental protection, modern environmental problems, the problems of natural resources management and others. The training takes place both in modern classrooms and in specialized laboratories equipped with modern instruments for conducting field studies of environmental quality and assessing the state of natural objects. In the process of training, research and production practice is conducted.

Graduates can work in prestigious and high-paying positions at enterprises and organizations involved in environmental monitoring and environmental protection: Gidroproekt OJSC, Gidrospetsgeologiya Federal State Unitary Geological Enterprise, Georesurs Research and Production Enterprise, Mosgorgeotrest State Budgetary Enterprise, Institute for Water and Environmentaal Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geoecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Geopolis CJSC, NOEX NPO, PNIIIS JSC, etc.

There is also the opportunity to continue your education in our graduate school with the subsequent defense of a thesis.