M.Sc Biotechnology

Based on a score of 92 marks in Plant Biotechnology, getting admission in top universities like JNU, BHU, Delhi University would be difficult as their cutoff ranges are generally higher, above 150 - 200 marks. However, you can apply to state universities or private universities that accept lower cutoff in their merit list like: Amity University, Shivaji University, Lovely Professional University, etc. Also, the second round of admissions for colleges which include direct admission or entrance based, sometimes have less cutoffs.

Placement cell tracks MSc Biotechnology under placements of the School of Basic & Applied Sciences.

Highest salary offered in 2024 placement cycle was 35 LPA.

Average or median package for PG (including MSc) is about 4.5 LPA.

Over 419 total offers in 2024 across all courses at DSU; MSc falls under PG offers.

Top recruiters include Infosys, Cognizant, Bosch, Mindtree, Capgemini, Intel, L&T, Amazon.

The course you should do after MSc biotechnology to become a research scientist is PhD.

The exams that you have to give to pursue it are CSIR-NET and GATE

And the Phd itself have you time to research well otherwise after PhD you can make your career in reasearch 

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St Xavier's College offers both stand alone B.Sc in Biotechnology programme and integrated B.Sc plus MSc in Biotechnology programs depending on the specific campus for example St Xavier's College Mumbai has introduced a new 4 year BSc in Biotechnology and Computational Biology while St Xavier's College Kolkata offers and indicated B.Sc + MSc in biotechnology.