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Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical Academy (SPCPA) was founded in 1919 and is now the oldest institution of higher pharmaceutical education in Russia. The Academy has been training international students for over 50 years. The graduates of the Academy work in more than 30 countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Academy has available necessary classroom facilities and laboratories, nurseries of medicinal plants, reading rooms, up-to-date apparatus and equipment for research, computer classes, hooked up to the Internet. At present foreign citizens from 21 countries are taught at the Academy, making up 25% of the whole number of students. They include students from Syria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunis, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Tanzania, Kenya, Venezuela, Peru, China, and others.

The Academy is the leading higher educational establishment in the field of general and industrial pharmacy, having the highest rating among institutions of higher pharmaceutical education in Russia. 75% of the faculty members have PhD and DSc degrees. They include great scientists widely known both in Russia and abroad. The departments and research laboratories (sectors) of the Academy carry on investigations in various fields of applied and fundamental sciences related to pharmacy.

The Academy provides education in Russian language in two faculties:

Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Drug Industrial Technology. Period of study at both faculties is 5 years. Having graduated with MSc, foreign students may apply for the PhD postgraduate study with duration of 3 years. The academic year is divided into two semesters, starting in September and February. The entry date is September the 1st.

Faculty of Pharmacy trains Masters of Pharmacy: highly qualified pharmacists-technologists, pharmacists-analysts, specialists in pharmacy administration. The departments of the Faculty take into account the specific nature of work of the prospective graduates and introduce into the curriculum appropriate courses: infectious diseases in southern countries, medicinal plants for subtropical zone, pharmacological aspects of the pharmaceutical market of foreign countries.

Faculty of Drug Industrial Technology trains highly qualified engineers-bio-technologists in the following directions: pharmaceutical bio-technology; pharmaceutical chemical technology; production technology on pharmaceuticals and nature-derived products.

At present a number of the Academy graduates hold supervisory posts in the Public Health Service and pharmaceutical industry, as well as in leading research centers and institutes, own largest cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies, chemist`s shops and other pharmaceutical enterprises in different countries of the world.

• Undergraduate training: Preparatory Department (10 months)
• Graduate training:
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• (Russian and French Medium)
• Faculty of Drug Industrial Technology
• Postgraduate training at the departments of the Academy (PhD program)

Date: 2015-01-11; view: 902