Careers in Natural Sciences

Life as a science major

• Help with study skills: online workshops to help you study smarter 
• All about the GRE (an exam required for graduate schools)
•  FAQs for biologists

Get a start on your career and get paid while doing research over the summer

Explore your career options by doing a summer internship, which are paid opportunities to do research. Here is a list of opportunities for minority students. Cornell University maintains a list of summer research opportunities throughout the US. The National Science Foundation funds many summer programs. You can search the internet on your own using keywords, for example, summer, medical research, undergraduate.

Career Planning

• Careers in chemistry
• Explore health and medical science careers on the LifeWorks website.
• Explore hundreds of careers for biologists
• Visit the NC State career services website for guidance on careers.
• Read a career planning guide for graduate school and beyond.
• Find out all the news about careers in biotechnology
• Search jobs in science now!
• Consider a career as a microbiologist
• Explore a career in forensics
• Considering genetics?
• Careers in botany
• Careers in ecology

Thinking about graduate school but not sure?

Consider a post-baccalaureate program.  You will get paid, obtain laboratory experience and help with course work to prepare you for graduate school in a 1 to 2 year program. There are many programs, here are links to a few.

• Vanderbilt University
• University of South Carolina
• Duke University
• Tufts University
• University of Missouri-Columbia
• and the NIH (National Institutes of Health) has many great programs for students

If you want to be a doctor:

Begin preparing by participating in a summer medical education program Read a guide to medical school admissions Which applicants are accepted to medical school? Find out more about MCATs  A guide from NCSU on applying to medical, dental and optometry schools Postbaccalaureate Premedical Programs