Biotechnological Faculty
The Faculty trains students in the following specialisations:
1. VETERINARY PHARMACY
- Qualification awarded: Veterinary Pharmacist (Provisioner of Veterinary Medicine)
- Mode of study and duration:
- Full-time: 4 years
- Part-time (distance learning): 5 years
- Language of instruction: Russian (with preliminary Foundation course available)
- Tuition fee: $2480/year
What Veterinary Pharmacists do:
- Manufacture pharmaceutical products at veterinary pharmaceutical enterprises, including process management and quality assurance
- Organise and conduct the procurement, reception, and standardisation of medicinal plant materials
- Perform chemical and toxicological analyses
- Manage pharmaceutical supply and distribution in veterinary medicine
- Oversee the storage and dispensing of veterinary drugs in pharmacies
- Develop regulatory and technical documentation for pharmaceutical products and manage their registration in accordance with established procedures
Career opportunities:
Graduates work at pharmaceutical manufacturing enterprises, veterinary pharmacies and warehouse facilities, quality control and analytical laboratories, research institutes, government agencies overseeing veterinary and pharmaceutical activities, as well as in higher and secondary specialised educational institutions.
2. VETERINARY SANITATION AND EXPERTISE
- Qualification awarded: Veterinary Sanitary Physician
- Mode of study and duration:
- Full-time: 4 years
- Language of instruction: Russian (with preliminary Foundation course available)
- Tuition fee: $2480/year
What Veterinary Sanitary Physicians do:
- Control the quality and safety of raw materials of animal and plant origin, as well as food products
- Conduct state production and laboratory control of animal-derived raw materials and products
- Perform veterinary and sanitary assessment of livestock and crop products in accordance with current regulatory standards
- Prevent zoonotic diseases (those transmissible from animals to humans) through food products such as milk, meat, eggs, fish, and others
Career opportunities:
Graduates work at food industry enterprises (meat processing plants, dairy plants, poultry farms), regulatory bodies (customs authorities, market laboratories), as well as in higher and secondary specialised educational institutions.
3. ANIMAL PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY
Qualification awarded: Technologist
- Mode of study and duration:
- Full-time: 4 years
- Language of instruction: Russian (with preliminary Foundation course available)
- Tuition fee: $1980/year
- What Technologists do:
- Organise and manage technological processes for the production of livestock products
- Supervise livestock operations and implement modern technologies to produce high-quality animal-derived products
- Improve and select breeds of farm animals
- Plan and manage balanced feeding programmes tailored to specific farm conditions
- Manage herd reproduction and implement breeding programmes
- Develop and implement breeding and selection plans for farm animals
- Optimise animal housing and welfare conditions
- Use information systems and computer software in livestock management
Career opportunities:
Graduates work as managers and specialists at agricultural enterprises, breeding and hybrid centres, poultry farms, pig-breeding complexes, pedigree breeding farms, state breeding enterprises, canine centres, district and regional agricultural services, as well as in research and educational institutions.
Dean of the faculty of Biotechnology
Shamich Yuliya
PhD in Agricultural Sciences, associate professor
tel.: +375 (212) 48-17-45
email: btf@vsavm.by