<p>Just wondering if anyone could give an overview of the above mentioned majors with the main focuses and difference between them and the differences in career opportunities with these majors? Also which one is generally considered hardest/ easiest? I am a little confused. Thank you! :)</p>
<p>Biology, biochemistry, and chemistry majors generally do not have very good job and career prospects, due to the flood of graduates competing for a small number of good jobs and a somewhat larger number of not-very-good jobs.</p>
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<p>Chemical engineering has generally better job and career prospects.</p>
<p>Molecular biology focuses on DNA, RNA, transciption and regulation of it, and protein production in the cell.</p>
<p>Biochemistry is more focused on proteins and enzymes and the functions of them. It also focuses a lot on metabolism. </p>
<p>Cell biology focuses on whole cells, cell types and IDing them, cell cycle, the the condition of cells, Cell compartments (golgi, ER, mitocondria), culturing cells.</p>
<p>As you might imagine there is large overlap between the disciplines but in general nucleic acids = mol bio, biochemistry = proteins and cell bio = cells.</p>
<p>As far as hard and easy goes, none of them are easy. However Biochemistry (at least at my school) is the hardest, as it includes a lot of intense chemistry lab courses.
Have you considered Microbiology? I know a lot of people who have switched from the majors you mentioned above to microbiology.</p>
<p>Plan on getting a graduate degree if you choose any of those 3. That’s if you aren’t ok with making 30k a year. That seems to be about the mean income level for all my biochem buds who went straight into the workforce, opting out of grad school for the time being. They had no problems finding a job, although we did graduate from a pretty well known school for science n stuffs.</p>
<p>Obviously I’m going to be biased and tell you that biochemistry is the easiest. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry are essentially the same thing, at least on the undergraduate level. The less biology the better…biology is a lot of memorization that I, for one, am not particularly fond of.</p>
<p>Agreed the pay and job prospects in general for just about any iteration of chemistry or biology is a sick joke. No one in my family will ever study it again.</p>
<p>Just curious, which bio and bio-related majors do you guys think are the most challenging?</p>