Sciences beyond Engineering and Medicine….
For most students, a career in the sciences after high school would imply professional courses like engineering, medicine and pharmacy. Those who are left out in the race for these courses, settle for a bachelor’s degree in science and specialise in Botany, Zoology, Micro Biology etc.
However, the crucial question which seeks an answer is: What after this? With information on other B.Sc options very sketchy, these students end up in drastic switch fields.
In the eatly 70s, life sciences was introduced in India as a field of study and by the mid of 70s, a life sciences department was set up with a curriculum for undergraduate students. Until 2005, when DU and a very few other universities started offering the course at undergraduate level, Bombay University was the only one in the country to do so.
In simple terms, one could call the life sciences a study of life in totality, which includes all organisms from the micro to the macro level, providing detailed information on all the activities of all the living beings.
Various branches of Biology are included in the life sciences which are :
1. Developmental biology or embryology
2. Cell biology 3. Physiology 4. Biostastics
5. Genetics 6. Neurobiology 7. Immunology
8. Epidemiology 9. Biotechnology
10. Environmental Biology 11. Biochemistry
Job options:
Apart from research, there is always an option of taking up employment with the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Students normally would join as trainees and research assitants and technical assistants with a starting salary of INR 25000-35000 p.m.
The job essentially involves research and technical work in the laboratories, sometimes hospitals themselves ask colleges to send students for employment with them.
Consultancy is the other big opportunity for life sciences students. Laboratories seek the services of consultants to troubleshoot the problems in processing and development in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and fermentation industries.
A no of life sciences students consider studying abroad also. Most of them feel that the opportunities differ at home and abroad.
To conclude, the most favoured fields these days are genetic engineering and genetic counseling.
However, the crucial question which seeks an answer is: What after this? With information on other B.Sc options very sketchy, these students end up in drastic switch fields.
In the eatly 70s, life sciences was introduced in India as a field of study and by the mid of 70s, a life sciences department was set up with a curriculum for undergraduate students. Until 2005, when DU and a very few other universities started offering the course at undergraduate level, Bombay University was the only one in the country to do so.
In simple terms, one could call the life sciences a study of life in totality, which includes all organisms from the micro to the macro level, providing detailed information on all the activities of all the living beings.
Various branches of Biology are included in the life sciences which are :
1. Developmental biology or embryology
2. Cell biology 3. Physiology 4. Biostastics
5. Genetics 6. Neurobiology 7. Immunology
8. Epidemiology 9. Biotechnology
10. Environmental Biology 11. Biochemistry
Job options:
Apart from research, there is always an option of taking up employment with the pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. Students normally would join as trainees and research assitants and technical assistants with a starting salary of INR 25000-35000 p.m.
The job essentially involves research and technical work in the laboratories, sometimes hospitals themselves ask colleges to send students for employment with them.
Consultancy is the other big opportunity for life sciences students. Laboratories seek the services of consultants to troubleshoot the problems in processing and development in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and fermentation industries.
A no of life sciences students consider studying abroad also. Most of them feel that the opportunities differ at home and abroad.
To conclude, the most favoured fields these days are genetic engineering and genetic counseling.
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