What Can You Do with a B.S. in Biology if You Don't Make it to Med School?

[FARADAY JR]

So I'm about to graduate this year and was wondering if I don't make it to med school what other options I have. I really like to see myself doing medical work. so what can a person with a B.S. in Biology do for living. can anyone give me ideas so that way I can start to think about them. thank you.

 

[Choppy]

One thing to remember is that your undergraduate degree is your education and unless you've gone through a professional program (engineering, law, medicine, etc) it's not job training. There are lots of doors open to people with degrees, but most career avenues will require some kind of additional training.

My brother-in-law for example got his degree in biology and went on to become a paramedic. He had to do 3 years of additional training to do that, but that's what he decided he wanted and he's now happy in a very successful career. He didn't 'need' the degree to get in either. But, that background made it a lot easier for him to whip through the training material and has been one of the driving factors in his professional advancement.

 

[Ben Espen]

You may try Sterilization Validation. The jobs are often listed as validation specialist, but the task is to prove that a given sterilization process [EO, steam, gamma] makes a medical product sterile. Microbiology is a good background, and a BS is the minimum requirement.