Department of Biology

After Graduation, UD Biology Students Move in Diverse Directions

• Medical professions: Students go from UD directly into medical, dental or veterinary schools for additional training.
• Graduate school: Graduates gain additional, more academic, training for research and teaching positions. Additional graduate programs offer degrees in physical therapy, occupational therapy, optometry, physician assistant, nursing and nuclear medicine.
• Environmental: Many students are moving into new positions where they assess environmental impacts of commercial ventures, they restore and protect area habitats and use modern molecular biological methods to help clean up toxic waste sites.
• Research assistants: A large number of students will move into research labs attached to hospitals and clinics to work as research assistants.
• Legal professions: Graduates can find biological and legal profession careers merging as the exciting prospects of creating patented genetically engineered plants and animals become commercial products. Similarly, there are newly created jobs in the field of environmental law.
• Additional fields: Other positions occupied by biology majors include jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, in the food preparation industry, as quality control personnel and biological sales staff.