<p>I'm applying to colleges in the UK where you choose your major and you stick to it (in other words its hard to change once you have chosen). Anyways I know that I want to get involved with the environment once I graduate. I would like to be an environmental engineer or atleast work with preventing pollution of our environment. I would like to work with sustainability and creating more efficient energy sources or preventing water pollution etc.</p>
<p>I have applied to engineering majors too, but I'm just wondering where a bachelor in biotechnology would get me. In other words could I get involved with the environment after taking a bachelors in biotechnology? Involved in the environment meaning future options- master or actual work.</p>
<p>It depends on what you mean by “biotechnology”. At least in the US, a degree in biotechnology refers to topics like genetic engineering and related areas. (Do you perhaps mean “biological engineering”? In the US, there are departments of agricultural & biological or biosystems engineering in colleges of agriculture. Majors in those departments might include areas such as biofuels and some aspects of environmental engineering, though environmental engineering is found more commonly in civil engineering depts.) So, I don’t think “biotechnology”, as that term is commonly understood, is very directly relevant for your interests in sustainability, energy, or pollution. A wide variety of other fields would be more relevant. Apart from energy or environmental engineering fields, some of the most relevant majors in applied environmental sciences (in US universities) are found in colleges of agriculture & natural resources at land grant public universities.</p>
<p>Well I am from Europe and I figured I should apply to some other places than America, seeing that my family is moving back to Europe this summer.</p>
<p>Well I’m actually not sure what the course would be refered to other than “biotechnology”, here is a link to the course I have applied to </p>
<p>So in other words, if I would obtain a bachelors in this “biotechnology” I could still continue on a path towards an environmental sustainability career?</p>
<p>Stay the hell away from this degree. I am a senior Chemistry/MSE major that has completed significant bio classwork. It’s just memorization of trivia. Nothing else. A BS in Chemistry teaches you everything useful you need to know about Biology (since most jobs don’t need you to know about genetics, the only part of Biology that chemists don’t understand). The rest of the things in biology aren’t useful. You use chemical instruments in biotech and use physics and chemistry to understand biology, but you won’t learn enough of that in a bio degree.</p>
<p>The average wages are also 60% that of a Chemistry major which are 60% that of a CS major and nothing beats Finance.</p>