Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies trains qualified specialists with higher education on a three-stage system:

• Bachelors in specialties 101 "Ecology" and 183 "Technologies of environment protection", term of apprenticeship is 4 years;
• Masters in specialties 101 "Ecology" and 183 "Technologies of environment protection" term of apprenticeship is 1 year and 4 months;
• Doctors of Philosophy in specialty 183 " Technologies of environment protection", term of apprenticeship is 4 years.

Information on admission can be found on the SSU website: sumdu.edu.ua/int/en

The training of specialists is carried out on full-time and part-time forms of study in profilisations:

• “Urban Ecology”;
• “Industrial Ecology”;
• “Ecology of forest and reserves”.

After graduation, graduates can obtain an international diploma.

There are postgraduate program in specialty 183 " Technologies of environment protection" on full-time and part-time study forms.

To prepare future environmentalists Department of Applied Ecology has a complex of scientific classrooms and laboratories equipped with modern facilities, computer and multimedia.

Department has branch offices, where students are trained: 

• Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Sumy region;
• State Environmental Inspection in the Sumy region;
• communal enterprise "Miskvodokanal";
• public company "Sumykhimprom";
• Sumy State Research Institute "MINDIP".

Students of the department are getting practical skills in following practical training:

• Study practice - with trips to study the natural landscapes and ecosystems of Ukraine and Sumy region;
• Pre-diploma - at the enterprises and institutions of the region
• Research practice - for realization of the experimental part of master's theses.

The knowledge gained during the training will help you:

• to assess, control and predict environmental quality;
• analyze the causes of environmental degradation;
• develop projects of human impacts regulation;
• apply knowledge of ecological and environmental legislation;
• conduct research in the field of environmental protection and energy-saving technologies;
• create a database of environmental monitoring.

After training you will be able to work as:

• specialist departments of environmental protection administrations and local governments;
• engineers and managers of organizations that monitor the environment quality;
• engineers and managers of design and expert organizations;
• research specialist;
• specialist of environmental protection departments in various industries;
• environmental analyst.