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I expected this post and was tempted to preempt it. I was expecting ucbalumnus to bring it up, though. </p>
<p>Biology majors may suffer in comparison to business or engineering majors, but they’re not really any different from other liberal arts majors. English and psychology majors are incredibly popular, and yet most of those students manage to find jobs. Biology majors do the same. Jobs taken by biology majors at Penn, for example, include education/teaching, consulting, research assistants at the NIH and hospitals, conservation work, public health, and many others. You may not get rich, but you probably won’t be starving either. As with most fields, I think the key to getting a job is a combination of experience and networking.</p>
<p>It’s definitely true that you need at least a MS or more typically a PhD for a research career in biology, and that takes a lot of time and effort.</p>