What Should I Major in to Become a Geneticist?
These college majors are closest related to this career (actual program names will vary from school to school).
- Anatomy
- Animal Genetics
- Animal Physiology
- Aquatic Biology/Limnology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other
- Biology/Biological Sciences, General
- Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other
- Biometry/Biometrics
- Biostatistics
- Biotechnology
- Botany/Plant Biology, Other
- Botany/Plant Biology
- Cell Biology and Anatomy
- Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences, Other
- Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
- Computational Biology
- Conservation Biology
- Developmental Biology and Embryology
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, Other
- Ecology
- Entomology
- Environmental Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Genetics, General
- Genetics, Other
- Genome Sciences/Genomics
- Human Biology
- Immunology
- Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography
- Marine Sciences
- Mathematical Biology
- Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology
- Microbial and Eukaryotic Genetics
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Molecular Biology
- Molecular Genetics
- Mycology
- Neuroanatomy
- Neurobiology and Anatomy
- Neurobiology and Behavior
- Neurobiology and Neurosciences, Other
- Neuroscience
- Nutrition Sciences
- Parasitology
- Pathology/Experimental Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Photobiology
- Plant Genetics
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Plant Pathology/Phytopathology
- Plant Physiology
- Population Biology
- Radiation Biology/Radiobiology
- Systematic Biology/Biological Systematics
- Toxicology
- Virology
Required Education
Post-Doctoral Training usually needed for this career
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- Microbiologists
- Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists
- Biological Scientists, All Other
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Molecular and Cellular Biologists
- Biologists
- Conservation Scientists
- Range Managers
- Park Naturalists
- Foresters
- Epidemiologists
- Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists
- Life Scientists, All Other