Education

Prepare for a Biomanufacturing Career

UC San Diego undergraduate and graduate students can follow many different educational paths in order to graduate with skills needed to build a career in the domestic biomanufacturing workforce.

 

Undergraduate Majors

Majors (and concentrations within majors) relevant for future biomanufacturing include:

Jacobs School of Engineering

Bioengineering

  • Bioengineering
  • Bioengineering: Biotechnology 
  • Bioengineering: Bioinformatics 
  • Bioengineering: Biosystems

Chemical and Nano Engineering

  • Chemical Engineering
  • NanoEngineering

Computer Science

Mechanical Engineering

  • Mechanical Engineering: Controls and Robotics 
  • Mechanical Engineering: Materials Science and Engineering
School of Biological Sciences

Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences: Bioinformatics
  • Biological Sciences: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
  • Biological Sciences: Microbiology
  • Biological Sciences: Molecular and Cell Biology
School of Physical Sciences

Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Biochemistry
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Molecular Synthesis
  • Pharmacological Chemistry

Mathematics

  • Mathematical Biology
  • Mathematics: Computer Science

Physics

  • Physics: Biophysics
  • Physics: Computational Physics
  • Physics: Materials Physics
School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS)

Data Science

 

Graduate Programs

If you are interested in working on advancing the future of biomanufacturing as part of your graduate school experience, please apply to our graduate programs. We are looking for motivated students who are interested in getting involved in some of the most important challenges in biomanufacturing research. 

In fact, UC San Diego offers a variety of graduate degrees that can serve as powerful pathways to a career in biomanufacturing. 

Below are links to UC San Diego graduate programs that include faculty who offer students world-class opportunities to prepare for a career in biomanufacturing. 

In addition, interested PhD and Masters students, please consider reaching out directly to future biomanufacturing faculty. We have faculty from many different disciplines working on exciting research in many relevant areas. 

Jacobs School of Engineering
School of Biological Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS)