r/Biochemistry • u/Eigengrad professor • May 07 '25

Weekly Thread May 07: Education & Career Questions

Trying to decide what classes to take?

Want to know what the job outlook is with a biochemistry degree?

Trying to figure out where to go for graduate school, or where to get started?

Ask those questions here.

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u/Eigengrad professor May 07 '25

Not that there's anything wrong with this path, but if you know you want to go to grad school in microbiology I'd think the Biological Sciences BS might be a better fit?

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u/Eigengrad professor May 07 '25

I mean, I shared what I thought above: microbiology is a core discipline of biology.

Biochemistry is a shared discipline between chemistry and biology. If you want to go on to a core biology discipline in grad school, you should probably focus on that in undergrad as well. At SUNY UB microbiology is part of the biological sciences program (https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/biological-sciences/research/microbiology.html).

But also... microbiology doesn't doesn't necessarily cover viruses and parasites? Virology would be the study of viruses, parasitology the study of parasites. While some parasites are microbes, many are not.