<p>What are the differences between the general curriculum and what are the different occupational paths that become available for each major?</p>
<p>You’ve got to be more specific. We don’t have a pure biochemistry major. Both the biology and chemistry departments offer their own biochem (+ some thing else) major. But regardless, the UCSD course catalog (available free online) lists all the course requirements for every major. </p>
<p>As for occupational paths, you can do pretty much the same things with both. Google has a lot of resources.</p>
<p>I was a biochem/chem major, did a chemistry MS, and am now thisclose to snagging my PhD. I’m officially a student of the biological sciences department, but my research is in structural biology, which is a subset of biophysics, and on any given day I do the work of a molecular biologist, biochemist, computational biologist, or disgruntled TA. Long story short, the sciences have an insane amount of overlap and everyone’s some sort of interdisciplinary scientist. College is the same – it’s a time for you to explore many different things, so take advantage of that.</p>