<p>I have intended for a while now to major in biochemistry. Although some of the schools have this or similar majors (such as molecular biology at Princeton), many don't. I've thought about putting biology for these other places (such as MIT), but I see other choices such as biophysics. Is this or any other more similar to biochemistry? Does anyone have any advice?</p>
<p>Biophysics is a no. You’re better off looking into Biology departments and specializing from there. Or actually applying to places where there is biochemistry instead of applying for some inferior reason.</p>
<p>Biochemisty is now sometimes taught as part of a biochem/molecular biology package, and that would generally be found in a biology department. Here and there biochemistry might still be found in a chemistry department.</p>
<p>Look at the course catalogs of schools you are interested in, and see where biochemistry courses appear. Even if there is no biochem major, there should be biochemistry courses, although they are often junior/senior level courses (following a full organic chem sequence, etc.)</p>
<p>In the ancient days when biochemistry was not yet its own field, anywhere, the professor who later became my dissertation advisor got his PhD in biophysics, then became the chair of a biochemistry department. However, I don’t think the biophysics/biochem link is particularly strong now.</p>