by our College Data Analytics TeamThose considering general genetics, you may also want to explore other closely related fields of study. Below you will find majors with similar career paths, related concentrations and specializations, and the most popular similar majors, ranked by annual graduates.
These majors prepare graduates for occupations that overlap with those of general genetics, based on the NCES CIP-to-SOC career crosswalk. They are ranked by the number of shared occupations.
| Similar Major | Shared Careers | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Aquatic Biology/Limnology | 3 | 119 |
| Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 3 | 89,827 |
| Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 3 | 4,488 |
| Computational Biology | 3 | 321 |
| Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography | 3 | 2,375 |
| Medical Microbiology and Bacteriology | 3 | 961 |
| Microbiology and Immunology | 3 | 443 |
| Molecular Biology | 3 | 1,255 |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 11,557 |
| Anatomy | 2 | 902 |
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Human/Medical Genetics | 424 |
| Molecular Genetics | 278 |
| Genome Sciences/Genomics | 199 |
| Animal Genetics | 59 |
| Plant Genetics | 32 |
| Genetics, Other | 11 |
Part of the broader field of Genetics, general genetics shares its foundations with the other majors in that field.
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