While choosing any course it is also important to think how it will help in future. Therefore, it is important to choose such a course that will surely remain in demand for next many decades. Nowadays, Biotechnology is one of the highly demanding as well as money generating course. Biotechnology specially aims in producing health and medicinal benefits for human beings by using advanced human life sciences and living organisms like plant cells, yeast etc. While some of the graduates continue with their Master degree or Doctoral degree but some are there who has to stop in midway. If you have a deep and true interest in Biotechnology, then you will surely have a very promising career. No matter whether it is IT, Biotech, MBA or any kind of jobs everywhere there is competition. According to report as collected by Govt of India, the biotech sector in India is growing at a growth rate of 20% and it is estimated that it will reach USD 100 million by 2025. India is now being counted among top 12 destinations for biotechnology in the whole world. Keeping these in minds one should choose biotechnology as their career. It is booming year by year and is expected that it will touch very big number.
Scope of biotechnology is vast and some of the emerging field of it are Forensic sciences, Food technology, Nutrition and Medicines. It offers wide opportunities in both research and engineering field. For pursuing a career in Biotechnology one need to pass with 60% aggregate marks in 10+2 with physics, chemistry, maths or biology or biotechnology. You can select either B.Sc Biotechnology or B. Tech Biotechnology. B. Tech biotechnology gives importance to the technical aspect of biotechnology but B.Sc mostly opens the door for research.
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