Job prospects are everywhere ranging from biotechnology, hospitals, pharmaceutical, and biomedical sciences, research institutions till industry. A few specific career areas that fall within the scope of bioinformatics include Bio-analytics, Clinical pharmacologist, Computational chemist, Database design and maintenance, Proteomics, Pharmacogenomics, Pharmacology, Sequence assembly, Sequence analysis, Informatics developer, etc.
As a minimum criterion of eligibility, aspiring candidates need to have completed graduation with a minimum aggregate score of 50% in any of the following:
B.Sc./ B. Pharm/ BHMS/ BDS/ BAMS/ MBBSB.E. in Computer ScienceB.Tech. in Information Technology/ Biomedical Engineering
Often, candidates are required to qualify an institute, State or national-level entrance test for admission to the course.

Admission Process to the course may vary across institutes. Some institutes conduct their own entrance exams for admission, while some select students on the basis of their score at the level of graduation, completed from a recognized college/university.