Biotechnology

Various biotechnology careers include forensic DNA analyst, scientist, clinical research associate job, laboratory assistant, microbiologist, greenhouse and field technician, bioinformatics specialist, animal caretaker and many more.
Biotechnology is combining knowledge about life and living organisms with modern technology to create new systems, devices, materials, food that could improve human life and help preserve environment. Most biotechnology products are associated with agriculture, food industry and medicine, and logically - careers in those fields are most popular.
Gain more practical knowledge within your field, as this will help when you join the industry (Private or Government). almost all theoretical knowledge is useless if you don't have any relevant practical expertise, so concentrate more the practical side of your studies.

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Biotechnology and Biochemical engineering focus on biological sciences, chemical and biochemical engineering microbiology, chemistry, biochemistry and genetics. Under this programme, students study about genetic technology and learn how to develop treatments for different diseases.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur is among top 5 colleges of India and each and every branch of there is very good with excellent placement records.
Here are some insights of the college.
Intake: 27 (biotechnology and biochemical)
Average package: 6.75 LPA (aggregate of all branches )
Highest package: 1.5 Crores
Recruiters: Abbot, Axis Bank, PwC, Nestle, Cisco, Flipkart, Facebook, Mu Sigma, Qualcomm, Nvidia, IBM, Texas instruments, Accenture and Deloitte.
Here is the link to get more insights of the placements:
http://googleweblight.com/i?u=http://why.iitkgp.ac.in/placement-internships&grqid=OsSpwawu&hl=en-IN
Hope this helps.

VIT University, Vellore is one of the best private colleges in India and it is ranked in top 10 on the list of private colleges of India.
It has many courses to offer out of which Biotechnology is one of the course.
VIT University is known for its great infrastructure, knowledgeable faculty. Facilities provided by them are the sports complex, Hospital, etc.
There are many companies that come for the placement in Vellore Institute of Technology for biotechnology and they are as follows:
Accenture, Amazon, Ashok Leyland, Bank of America, Blue Star, Capital IQ, Cisco Systems, Cognizant, Deloitte, eBay, Ericsson India, Ford Motors, Godrej, Google, Honeywell, HP, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle.
Most of the students from biotechnology branch do not get jobs in core companies but get a job with an average salary in mass recruiters companies like TCS, Accenture, etc.
The average salary of biotechnology student is about 3 to 4 LPA.
Highest salary of biotechnology graduate is about 16 LPA.
Hope it helps.

Heritage College of Engineering, Kolkata is a very good college for biotechnology but the thing is that if placement is the sole criteria on which you want me to give analysis of the college, then I must tell you that the college is just an average college and you will be disappointed to know, almost 50-60% of the total batch of biotechnology students end up in IT companies, marketing firms, and banking sector jobs, where you would get nothing more than 4 LPA.
The thing for which the college is known for is, the faculty members or the professors here have earned a really good reputation in India as well as abroad and so if you think of doing M.Tech or MS from abroad, you really have a great chance of getting admission to some reputed foreign universities, with the help of the letters of recommendation that the faculty members of your college can provide you.
You cannot expect an average placement of more than 4-5 LPA in chemical department of HIT Kolkata, including the core companies.