<p>I'm looking at colleges right now, and they all have so many options for what field of biology you want to major in! What are the pros and cons of each, if you major in any of these?</p>
<p>Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology</p>
<p>These are the ones that sounded interesting to me, but if you have any other suggestions I'd love them. So which one would you recommend?</p>
<p>The con of majoring in biology is that you will face a fiercely competitive job market of relatively low paid jobs at graduation, due to the large number of biology major graduating every year.</p>
<p>I haven’t decided personally but molecular biology sounds interesting.</p>
<p>For the poster above me, what if you want to be a teacher/professor?</p>
<p>That is exactly where the competition is.</p>
<p>Getting those jobs in the world of academia are hard to come by in the sciences or in any major for that matter.</p>
<p>If you really want a job you need to switch to engineering or go into a healthcare professional school. You will be lucky to get a job at all with a biology degree in any specialization and it will most likely be insultingly poor paying and dead end.</p>
<p>I believe biostatistics or bioinformatics are relatively good. But that’s just what I’ve read.</p>
<p>Have a look at [this</a> Wikipedia section](<a href=“Biochemistry - Wikipedia”>Biochemistry - Wikipedia) on the differences between those fields. They aren’t that different at the undergrad level - the most difference would likely be a few upper-level electives. Career prospects are largely the same between the three. You’ll have some time in your first few years to get a feel for the differences between each.</p>
<p>So if I don’t want to be a professor or teacher or any academic-like job after college, what would be a better major? I would still like to do something semi-related to biology, but I don’t want to end up with a horrible job. JeSuis, I googled biostatistics and bioinformatics and I could see myself doing biostatistics.</p>
<p>I hear from the postdocs in my lab that the job market isn’t terrible. Of course, most of them went to top grad schools, so it might just be that the job market wasn’t terrible for them.</p>
<p>Also, I second what davidmigl said, they all take the same major as an undergrad, so you still have years to choose. You’re far ahead of me—I’m mostly focusing on molecular bio, but am still tempted by evolutionary/environmental bio and physics.</p>
<p>If you are interested in biostatistics, then you might want to look into an applied math degree with a statistics emphasis. There should be enough electives in a program like that to incorporate a biology minor. That would be a much versatile degree in my opinion.</p>