<p>Are the job prospects good? I’m specifically talking about Bioinformatics at the Masters degree level. What exactly can you do with a degree in Bioinformatics?</p>
<p>Job prospects aren’t bad, as far as I hear, but I always remind students to look beyond the specific field. Bioinformatics is interdisciplinary, your greatest assets are the skills that also work outside the field, namely programming, problem solving and abstract thinking and your ability to communicate ideas from biologists to computer scientists and vice-versa, which, like speaking two languages, makes you not only different than those with only one field or “language”, but allows you to adapt to new “languages” more easily. And, if you play it right, it’s close enough to other fields like biostats (and by extension, statistics) where there is plenty of demand as well.</p>