COLLEGE OF APPLIED & NATURAL SCIENCES
Biology
The undergraduate program in Biology at Louisiana Tech allows students who are interested in science to pursue a degree where they study living organisms and the processes of life.
Graduate and Career Opportunities
- Doctor
- Dentist
- Physician Assistant
- Occupational Therapist
- Physical Therapist
- Patent Attorney
- Biotechnologist
- Genetic Counselor
- Medical/Biological Illustrator
- Medical & Research Equipment Salesperson
- Forensic Scientist
- Science Museum Curator
- Government Policy Maker
- Government Research/Scientist
- Animal Technician
- Biological Conservationist
- Wildlife Biologist
- Botanist
- Zoologist
- Marine/Fisheries Biologist
- Toxicologist
- Pathologist
- Ecologist
- Biologist
- Optometrist
- Podiatrist
- Scientific illustrator
- Visual artist (drawings, paintings, photographs, animations)
Biology
Scholarships
In addition to Louisiana Tech’s generous university scholarship packages, the program in Biological Science offers the George Roy Hayes, Jr. Endowed Scholarship and the C. Lawrence Neal M.D. Pre-Medicine Endowed Scholarship to majors in this area.
Internships and research
The School of Biological Sciences has a strong and active undergraduate research program. Students can work with faculty members on research projects in the lab or in the field, and can earn academic credit for that research that may be applied towards their degree requirements.
Students in the biological sciences program are not required to complete an internship as a part of their degree requirements, but they have many opportunities available.