Career And Graduate Preparation

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<p>Subsequent to graduation from my undergraduate program, I would like to directly secure a position as a bioinformatics specialist. In addition, I aspire to eventually matriculate to a biomedical engineering PhD program. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides the most detailed admission criteria for prospective students (biomedical engineering PhD program). It can be found here</p>

<p>Academic</a> Preparation for Graduate School in Bioengineering | Bioengineering Department</p>

<p>I have either alternate A or B. I can double major in biochemistry/molecular biology with computer science as my second field of study. Or, I can major in computer science with minor concentrations in engineering, mathematics and biology. Both alternatives could take five years for completion.</p>

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<p>If you do not go to graduate school, CS is likely to provide better backup job and career prospects than biochemistry. Biochemistry has poor job and career prospects generally, while CS has variable job and career prospects (generally better than biochemistry, although if you are unlucky enough to graduate during an industry downturn, the job and career prospects can be quite poor).</p>

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