Completing a higher education is very essential in today’s competitive world as every industry requires specially trained personnel in every particular field. Pursuing higher studies in Biotechnology, you can get employed in diverse areas such as food manufacturing companies, pharmaceuticals, public-funded laboratories, environmental control and waste management organisations, food-processing industries, chemical energy and allied industries. ou can get employed in an array of diverse areas such as production, planning and management of various bio-processing industries.

Other career option is to become a research associate inorder to facilitate experiments in Biotechnology under the supervision of established scientists. Other career opportunities include Sales, Research, Administration, Marketing, Breeding, Quality Control, Technical Support, etc.

m.SC – BIOTECHNOLOGY

	M.SC – BIOTECHNOLOGY
About	Master of Science in Biotechnology or MS/MSc Biotechnology can be regarded as an interdisciplinary program that allows you to refine the skills and knowledge in subjects like cell biology, Immunology, and alike. Along with strengthening the conceptual part, candidates will also do research practices inorder to submit a dissertation on completion of MS Biotech.
Eligibility	B.Sc in related subjects with 50% marks
Duration	2 years
Entrance Exams	BHU PET/ BITSAT/JNUJEE/ DUET
College Options	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram Calicut University, Calicut Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Banaras Hindu University, Varnasi Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
Specializations	Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Food Science and Biotechnology Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Research Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Bio- Business Industrial Biotechnology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Industrial Biotechnology Pharmacology and Biotechnology
Course Curriculum	Semester 1: Advanced Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Environmental Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Exercises in Advanced Biological Chemistry, Exercises in Molecular and Cell Biology, Exercises in Environmental Biotechnology Semester 2: Genetic Engineering, Immunology, Principles of Bacteriology and Virology, Plant Biotechnology, Exercises in Genetic Engineering, Exercises in Immunology, Exercises in Plant Biotechnology, Exercises in Bacteriology and Virology Semester 3: Animal Biotechnology, Bioprocess engineering & Fermentation Technology, DataBase Management and IPR in Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Food Technology and Nutrigenomics, Advanced Genetics, Exercises in Animal Biotechnology, Exercises in Bioprocess Engineering, Exercises in Bioinformatics, Seminars, Term paper writing, Scientific Research and Communications Semester 4: Genomics and Proteomics, Biochemical and biophysical techniques, Exercises in Biochemical and Biophysical techniques, Nanobiotechnology, Stem Cell Technology and Regenerative Medicines, Agricultural Biotechnology, Bio-entrepreneurship, Project
Careers	Research Scientist, Sr. Associate Scientist, Biotechnology Researcher, Associate Engineer

m.SC – BIOinformatics

	M.SC – BIOINFORMATICS
About	Bioinformatics is basically about management of data in modern biology and medicine. M.Sc Bioinformatics is a masters course which specializes in the science of collecting and analysing complex biological data such as genetic codes.
Eligibility	Candidates should score a minimum 50% marks in Bachelor’s course from a recognized college and have science as a main subject.
Duration	2 years
Entrance Exams	Allahabad University Entrance Exam Banaras Hindu University Entrance Exam Bharti Vidyapeeth University Entrance exam Indian institute of information technology All India entrance exam
College Options	Mar Athanasios College For Advanced Studies, Pathanamthitta, Kerala Calicut University, Calicut Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kollam Stella Maris College, Chennai Goswami Ganesh Dutt Sanatan Dharama college, Chandigarh Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Course Curriculum	Semester 1: Basic mathematics, Computer fundamentals, Cell developmental biology, Biomolecules, Practical Semester 2: Molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Internet and web based programming, Object oriented programming, Design and analysis of algorithms, Practical Semester 3: Data management system, Bioinformatics I, Bioinformatics II, Recombinant JAVA programming, JAVA programming, Practical Semester 4: Project Work
Careers	Data Mining In charge, Database Maintenance Manager, Database Designer,, Sequence Analyst, Clinical Pharmacologist, Proteomics Pharmacogenomics, Information Developer, Computational Chemist, Bio-analytics