- Biotechnology's current and potential applications include enhancing the nutritional quality of food crops; strengthening resistance to disease in economically important plants and animals; and increasing crop and livestock productivity.
- Real-World Outcomes:
- The biotechnology major develops practical skills that make graduates highly attractive job candidates for companies in agricultural, food, and beverage industries; health care; chemical, pharmaceutical and biochemical industries; and environmental analysis and remediation industries. Graduates also apply successfully to graduate and professional schools in molecular biology, genetics, biochemistry, medicine and plant and animal sciences.