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<p>However, a plain bachelor’s degree in biology tends not to get the better jobs without additional education (medical, nursing, dental, pharmacy, PhD, etc.; and medical schools do not require a biology degree). A flood of failed pre-meds who majored in biology keeps supply high relative to demand for biology graduates.</p>
<p>On the other hand, sschoe2’s gripes mainly apply to biology and chemistry; university career surveys indicate that physics, applied math, statistics, and computer science graduates do considerably better in the job market. Chemical engineering graduates do considerably better than chemistry graduates.</p>