Biotechnology

Think of biotechnology in India & you think of Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and her biotechnology company, Biocon. Today, India is considered one of the best destinations for biotechnology industry because of the availability of state-of-art resources and facilities to carry on newer practices.

A B.Tech in Biotechnology would throw up opportunities in production, research, and marketing in the fields such as environment, energy and conservation, agriculture and horticulture, medicine and health care, animal husbandry and dairy farming. Research oriented aspirants have a good scope in research laboratories and as professors and research assistants. There are opportunities with government and corporate run research and development organisations. You could hold designations like a lecturer, marketing manager, quality control officer or manager, bioinformatics, environmental specialist etc.