Dear aspirant,

Yes, there is a good scope for microbiology in India. You can do the following after pursuing microbiology.

1. Continue doing master, find your niche and then move on to do a PhD. This will help you become a microbiology researcher, you can start a lab of your own after PhD and Postdoc and then carry on with your research .

2. You can become a geneticist and study the genetics of microbes and look at how to manipulate them for vaccine development, recombinant protein production etc.

3. Food industrial and environmental microbiologist - You can get jobs in food products company where you'll be doing the quality check of the products.

4. Pharmaceutical companies - You can work on finding how illnesses are caused and how the infections can be cured.

5. Teacher - After finishing you masters/PhD you can teach in schools/universities.

If you are interested in Microbiology you can definitely pursue it.

Hope this helps

hello aspirant,

YES, Microbiology is one of the reputed course and career fields fro someone who aspires to become a microbiologists. It is one of the in-demanding career in the future. With a degree in microbiology, one can get opportunities in various environments like higher education institutions, hospitals, healthcare organizations, forensic science laboratories, environmental organizations, publicly funded research organizations, pharmaceuticals, food and drugs, and many other fields as well.

Furthermore, A mid-career Microbiologist with 4-9 years of experience earns an average salary of 3.7 Lakhs per year , while an experienced Microbiologist with 10-20 years of experience earns an average salary of 7.6 Lakhs per year.

Further, to know more about the career in microbiology and its scope, you can follow the below mentioned link to know more : https://www.careers360.com/courses/microbiology-course

I hope that this will help.