High school kid here.
I am interested in studying artificial intelligence and combining technology with the human body. Pretty much futuristic tech stuff. I’m also interested in helping with developing new cures/vaccines.
What majors does this fit in? Do companies hire frequently based on these interests?
Majors I would recommend biological and/or biomedical engineering, robotics, medical and/or research/scientific virology/microbiology, medical or biological anthropology.
For careers, I immediately think of cyronics, and others common for those majors.
thank you =)
Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science.
Molecular biology or biochemistry or some sort of pharmacological field–however, these will require advanced degrees (PhD, generally speaking) for you to have any sort of a career, and even then, job prospects tend to be poor in the field of biology. Alternatively, biomedical engineering–this will generally require an MS to be employable, and one is often better off majoring in a more traditional engineering discipline for the Bachelor’s, followed by an MS in biomedical engineering.
You could major in a lot of things to do work like that. Computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics, physics, neuroscience, cognitive science…pretty much any of the natural/life or physical sciences can take some aspect of that at some angle. It doesn’t even necessarily need to be a combined major - people work in teams, so you might end up being a software developer at a biotech company even if you only majored in computer science or a mathematician or statistician at a academic medical research center even if you never took a class in bio.
Biomedical engineering is a good one that combines those, too, but there are a lot of different angles you can take.
Something that might really be of interest to you is human-computer interaction (HCI). Some colleges have separate HCI majors and some have an HCI concentration within their computer science major.
Also, think about broad fields, not subfields, at least at this juncture. “Molecular biology” or “virology” or “biological anthropology” are too narrow for an undergrad degree and most colleges won’t offer majors in those areas. You want to go more broadly for “biology” or “anthropology” or “neuroscience.” Breadth first, then depth.