R&D career with just a master's?

seaweed
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:19:15 +0000

If you wish to pursue research in biotech industry, if you go further with a PhD.

A master’s is usually not sufficient to assume team leader type positions in R&D even if your major is chemical enigineering.

I agree with Morning_Theft that if your goal is to do “cutting edge” research, then an engineering degree is not necessary. However, I strongly recommend you to stick with chemE for your undergrad and even grad degrees simiply because the career prospects are way much better. Many chem and bio PhDs are now having a very tough time finding jobs outside of academia.