Career Opportunities for Microbiology Majors
Graduates with a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in microbiology have opportunities for employment in government, hospitals, public health laboratories, research laboratories, and industrial laboratories, (food, dairy, chemical, pharmaceutical, and genetic engineering companies). Students who continue beyond the BS have career opportunities in these same areas, with greater responsibilities and commensurately higher salaries, as well as in college and university teaching.
Examples of possible positions include:
- Research laboratory technician
- Quality control analyst
- Clinical microbiologist or immunologist
- Food or dairy microbiologist
- Environmental microbiologist
- Recombinant DNA technologist
- Fermentation technologist
- Research scientist
- College teacher
- Public health microbiologist
- Doctor of veterinary medicine
- Doctor of medicine
- Dentist
For more excellent information, check out ASM's Student Resources.