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What can a degree in biochemistry lead to?

It seems that its not a very specific degree and to get a biochemistry related career/job you need to do a masters or Phd.

Has anyone had the same issue.
It isn't about the specificity of the degree. It's more about the MSc and PhD giving you independent research skills and helping you to learn additional techniques which cannot be taught in huge undergrad cohorts. Also interests change vastly as you gain more research experience and you need a broad base of knowledge before you can specialise in any particular area of the subject. In terms of what you can do with the degree, you'll gain a load of transferable skills so pretty much anything that uses those.
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It isn't about the specificity of the degree. It's more about the MSc and PhD giving you independent research skills and helping you to learn additional techniques which cannot be taught in huge undergrad cohorts. Also interests change vastly as you gain more research experience and you need a broad base of knowledge before you can specialise in any particular area of the subject. In terms of what you can do with the degree, you'll gain a load of transferable skills so pretty much anything that uses those.


Thank you very much this was really helpful. I wish someone had told me this earlier.

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