Why study Biotechnology?

Biotechnology: The new buzz word of Education and Career Opportunities

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Biotechnology develops cellular and bimolecular processes to generate technologies and products that help boost our lives and the nature. By making beneficial food, and conserving milk products, we have done these for many years by now. Recent biotechnology matures breakthrough products and technologies to fight ailments, decrease our ecological ruins, feed the poor, and use less and renewable energy, and have harmless and more efficient industrial progressions.

So far, more biotechnology products have been made available to untreatable diseases, to increase agricultural yields, and to refine technologies to produce biofuels and chemicals from renewable biomass, which can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Having been said above facts, the new trends swinging towards marrying science with nature, career opportunities are multiplying in regular headway
with the weakening of the IT well-off, the new buzzword is ‘BIOTECH’. And the flow of investment into this sector indicates it will continue to be hot for quite some time as this technology focuses on the development of the life sciences.

Specialized education in biotechnology after completing Plus Two or equivalent examinations- physics, chemistry, mathematics, and/or biology- is provided by the Indian IITs. In few IITs run five-year M.Tech programme in biochemical engineering and biotechnology is offered, while IIT-Kharagpur offers an integrated M.Tech programme of five and a half years in biotechnology.

In universities biotech, is usually offered as a postgraduate subject. Eligibility for admission into a Masters Biotechnology programme is an undergraduate degree in biology, physics, agriculture, veterinary sciences, engineering, medicine, forestry, or fisheries, with an average of at least 55 percent.

Major German universities providing biotechnology courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level both. Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians University offer graduation and post-graduation courses in biology. Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden is well known for pursuing Ph. D. in the related field. Moreover, TU Berlin offers students the chance to intern with biotech companies.UK stands second after Germany in terms of core biotech companies. In the field of biotech, the UK benefits from educational power houses like the London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Scotland. These are some of the best colleges/universities providing biotech courses. The Imperial College of London and the University London College are the two most leading universities offering biotech programs. In France, Paris and Rhone Alpes are centers of France’s life sciences activity. Paris is a home to leading biotech universities like Sup’ Biotech, ESBS Strasbourg, AgroParisTech. ENSTBB and Polytech Marseille in Bordeaux are even two of the top colleges offering biotech courses.Dublin’s Trinity College offers a variety of courses in bio science. Also, the country is a home to leading biotech companies and an amazing start-up called RebelBio.