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About us

The Faculty of Science (ScF) was founded in 1919 with the first students to begin studies in autumn 1920. It resumed the traditions started, in Brno, by Johann Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1884), the world genetics genius. During the years of its existence, the faculty has brought up a number of prominent personalities in botany, zoology, chemistry, geography and geology, physics or mathematics. Therefore, ScF is profiling high significance also today offering university education closely linked to basic and applied research in the branches of science, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology or Earth sciences.

The Faculty of Science has registered several scientific discoveries of world importance. Faculty’s priority is support to oriented research that best stimulates the harmonic development of individual natural sciences. Certain portion of research capacity streams to non-oriented and non-specific research interlinked, in terms of courses, with primarily doctoral studies. Faculty’s principal research and development effort issues from the long-term trends of each of the major branches – biology, physics, Earth sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, mathematics. Biology research focuses primarily on the monitoring of spatio-temporal changes in higher plants and animals population and communities diversity, plant growth and stress physiology related to environment and on the comprehensive molecular biology-based representative genomes analysis of main organism groups. Physical research focuses on material and plasma applications, astrophysics and theoretical physics. The Earth sciences focus on geological processes along with biota evolution in geologic history, on contemporary environmental issues, three-dimension geoinformation infrastructure production, cartographic geovisualisation methods development and on the geographic and ecologic studies of Antarctic vegetation oases. Research in chemistry includes investigation of compound chemical and physical properties, structural analysis, organic and inorganic synthesis, environmental chemistry, computer-aided chemical processes modelling; in biochemistry structures relations and biomolecule functions and roles in metabolism or enzymology. Mathematic disciplines orient to investigating functional differential equations and mathematic statistics models and to algebra and geometry mathematic structures, including applications to informatics and physics.

A goal of faculty’s is educating future experts and teachers. Fully qualified for teaching positions are the graduates of the fields of upper secondary school teaching in a subject (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and cartography, geology), accredited within master’s degree programme framework. The applicants for those fields of study get qualified in education-specialised fields of bachelor’s programmes (mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and cartography, geology with a focus on education). The offer also includes double-subject interfaculty studies under the agreements with the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Informatics and Faculty of Sports Studies.

The specialised master’s studies graduates may find positions in, besides school system, basic and applied research at universities, departmental research institutes or Czech Academy of Sciences, in industry and in private companies. The best of the master’s studies graduates may continue studying doctoral degree programmes of either on-site mode or combined with distance study mode.

Faculty of Science in numbers

• As of 31 October 2011, there were 4,481 students of regular diploma studies at this faculty altogether, out of which 2,565 in bachelor's degree programmes, 1,038 in master's degree programmes.
• As of 31 October 2011 another 878 students were in the doctoral degree programmes.
• We have 11 departments, 5 institutes and 3 laboratories, employing 936 personnel, out of which 65 are professors and 103 associate professors.
• The students are taught by 691 instructors altogether, out of which 421 are MU staff, 110 students and 160 externs outside MU.
• In 2011 we registered 4,113 applicants for studies in all open admission procedures, out of which 2,758 were accepted.
• We educate 6 seriously handicapped students.
• The number of students going abroad in the academic year of 2011/2012 was 114, the number of students coming from abroad in the same academic year was 19.
• The graduates from regular studies in 2011 reached the number of 982, out of which 539 from bachelor’s, 356 from master’s and 87 from PhD studies.
• Our graduates labour market very well (Graduate employment record).
• Since 1951, there have been 22,473 graduates from the studies at our faculty.

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