1st Biochemistry - Jobs?

You'll be eligible for claiming the dole after graduation.

What are the possible things you can do with a 1st in Biochemistry from UCL in terms of a career; I've heard about quite a few cases where people have gone into management, finance or work as lab techs, anyone know of the possibilities / opportunities out there for good quality biochemistry graduates from UCL?

Virtually anything you want to apart from a hedge fund manager.

You'll be eligible for claiming the dole after graduation.

This is pretty accurate. I have a 1st in biochemistry and have mostly just been on benefits for the last three years, with occasional manual labour and odd jobs.

A degree makes you completely unemployable, sorry.

Where did you study? That's something I've never heard of tbh, in fact I know about a guy who was headhunted during his third year at UCL and was made an offer of a job with pay starting at 70K with the potential of earning 250k after three years.

Imperial, then York.

Even lab tech/cleaner jobs are getting dozens or hundreds of applicants, people with phds are taking them, they're not going to give a crap about just another chump with BSc.

Well I don't know about that, it really depends on what area you want to go into. From what I've been told getting a first in biochem from a university like UCL can be a pretty useful qualification to have when looking for a job (and this proves to be true time and time again).

Who doesn't have a first from UCL? Or even from a good uni?? A degree no more sets you apart from the rest of the field than does having two hands or a basic command of English.

The top five universities most-often targeted by Britain's top graduate employers in 2010 were Cambridge, Warwick, Manchester, London (including Imperial College, University College and the London School of Economics) and Oxford. The majority of employers have been actively marketing their 2011 graduate vacancies at between 10 and 20 universities in the UK.

I'm afraid I don't see the connection, can you specifically point out what in that quote contradicts what I said? Directly quote me when doing so, so as to avoid accidentally-inaccurate paraphrasing.



Quote it?

The part I quoted from the article was in referance to where you had said "who deosn't have a first from UCL? or from any good university?", it explains how employers are specifically targeting a select number of universities and hence not looking for the class of the degree alone but that factor coupled with the university attended.

This is pretty accurate. I have a 1st in biochemistry and have mostly just been on benefits for the last three years, with occasional manual labour and odd jobs.

A degree makes you completely unemployable, sorry.

Maaate this is depressing, im just about to start a degree! Counldn't you even get an accountancy job or something?

No idea, I've never tried. Why would anyone want to do that ****?

Are you serious? To earn money ofc, if you haven't actually tried going down various routes to get a job then you can't really complain about being jobless

I was recently at UCL open day and the final years taking us around tours have successfully found jobs with large pharmaceutical firms, but that could just be them, and it wasnt biochemistry it was biochemical engineering course. But supposedly biochemists are high in demmand is what the tutors told us but then they would, wouldnt they. So Im not sure how much truth is behind this? because surely in this economic climate and government cuts would very steep esp. science no??

also sorry to butt in on your thread but what do the majority of scienceey graduates end up doing? is it finance and banking area?? also is it possible to go into law with science degree or is that out of the question because im afraid ive made a pretty big blunder to begin with. Thanks