I am having a really hard time deciding between neuroscience and biochem. Overall, neuroscience seems more interesting to me and I was drawn to how psychology is incorporated in addition to biology and chemistry. However, I’ve been searching for internships recently and have found that it seems harder to find ones related to neuroscience- a lot want either biology, chemistry, or biochem majors. I’m worried that I’ll have a harder time finding a job as a neuroscience major; biochem seems to have a wider array of options. I really liked general chemistry and did well in organic chemistry, but overall I didn’t enjoy organic chemistry (if this makes a difference).
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to get a BS degree and work in industry, a neuroscience major will not help you. Neuroscience jobs are research jobs either at a master’s level or at the PhD level. A Biochem degree is good for either, but you’ll need to be more focused than just “biochem” if you want to get into higher level research.
Because it is a research field, there are few, if any, industry internships in neuroscience, so you’d need to reach out to labs at your university or elsewhere. My kid did an internship last summer in a neuroscience lab as a high school student, but she reached out the the professor as asked about it. The internships or other undergrad work in labs in neuroscience are also advertised in conferences, bounced around between faculty, and advertised on university job sites.
If you like general chemistry but not organic chemistry, why don’t you study that? Don’t go into a field because it seems that there are more job options because A, job market fluctuate, and B, it is difficult to succeed if you dislike your major.
A kid of a friend went to college and decided on Chem, because he couldn’t decide and it looked like it had a lot of options. He didn’t do well freshman year so he looked around for something more interesting to him. Fast forward, he has a BS in Environmental Science, a Masters in Wildlife Biology and is starting his PhD in Wildlife Biology this coming year. he enjoyed his masters a lot more than he enjoyed his undergrad.