International Master’s Degree Programs

With the aim to deliver pertinent knowledge and develop practical skills in the most efficient way the following teaching methods are applied:

Lectures and discussions. A lecturer will explore a problem on a relevant topic to be considered and studied in detail. Students are welcome to ask any pertinent questions at the end of a lecture. Lecturers can ask questions on the information they have delivered in order to involve students into discussion.

Seminars. A lecturer provides general guidance for a group working on an advanced study or research project. This approach is aimed at exchanging information and developing new solutions to problems under study by the group.

Demonstration. This method implies actually performing an operation or doing a job which shows students what to do and how to do it. Students might obtain valuable empirical knowledge in the field of expertise and develop vocational skills.

Scientific research activities and publishing. These activities imply working in research labs as well as writing scientific articles under a professor’s supervision. Students might get their research and scientific articles published on global citation websites.

Brainstorming and role plays. These approaches make it possible for a lecturer to engage students in teamwork and to stimulate more active participation in order to fix the knowledge acquired during studies.

SPbPU international students are provided with the double accommodation in a two-room apartment with shared facilities and kitchen in the comfortable student dormitory. Accommodation cost at a dormitory is far less than cost of renting an apartment.

All the apartments at dormitories are equipped with a bed, bedside table, desk, chairs, wardrobe, curtains, and bed clothes (including a mattress, a blanket, a pillow and linen). There are an electric heating board, a refrigerator, a table, chairs, a microwave in the kitchen.

There is a free wi-fi zone in the dormitory lobbies.