<p>I'm thinking about changing my major from IT to biology because when I was in high school, I did enjoy my biology class so that's why i wanna change to biology. My ideal job is working in a hospital on the management/technical side. I'm currently in my first semester of college. I hate IT because honestly I'm just not interested in it..I never was, i just chose it to choose something. So here's what I'm thinking: </p>
<p>major in biology (perhaps minor in business or if it doesn't extend my graduation too much, maybe even a double major in biology and business- I still need to talk to my counselor and i know bio and business are two complete opposites so we'll see)
go back for my master's in healthcare administration right after graduating with my bachelors.</p>
<p>Is it worthless doing my bachelors in biology?
I really want to do a double major in biology and business though. I think this will teach me useful things if I want to work on the management side of a hospital. I don't know how much longer I will be in college because of it. I also want to do both so just in case biology doesn't work out, I have business as a plan B because business will always be useful. </p>
<p>A Biology degree with an emphasis in molecular biology or chemistry could get you a lab associate position in nearly every major city with universities, but for the run-of-the-mill biology degree, the answer is that there are quite a few of them unemployed or working in other jobs.</p>
<p>That would be a very low paying position. Northwestern ran an ad for such a position a few years back wanting to pay $12 an hour. In short yes. If you don’t get into med school or one of the other allied healthcare fields you will need to get a graduate degree in something marketable and unrelated.</p>
<p>Just an undergrad degree in biology is not very employable (D1 and I were just discussing a friend of hers who majored in Bio at a school that is often discussed on these forums and is a pretty decent school, and now is working as a personal trainer because she didn’t get into med school and finds her degree basically useless in the employment field…). Bio majors who didn’t make it into med school are a dime a dozen.</p>
<p>You don’t need a bio degree to work in the healthcare management field. I’d focus on a business major, see if there is any kind of healthcare administration coursework at your school as well. </p>
If your school has a public health major, that might also be something to look into–it’s probably more employable in the medical field than just straight up biology.