How you can get into biotechnology?

Answer 1

First, find an accredited school that offers a major in biotechnology. This may well be a community college as the trend in four year schools is going toward bioengineering or biomedical engineering. If your really into complicated math then you might like an engineering degree. Either way, if you carefully examine the degree requirements you will find that the biotech (genetic engineering, cell culture, protein purification etc.) part is the same. Its just that it really doesn't take four years to learn biotechnology, so to get their money's worth, the first two years of bioengineering is mostly math (that you won't use) and pointless filler courses. Biomed is the same plus anatomy stuff.

The short track is a two year associates degree. So second, find one of these that offers an internship at a biotech company (i.e. Dowe, Roche, Amgen etc.). Do well in the program and you have a baseline biotech career right there.

Third, after a few years you can move up in the company and become a project manager, or you can use your acquired skills to invent your own product and start your own company.