Bioinformatics at Georgia Tech

[carlitobrigante]

Hello everyone,

 

How is the Bioinformatics MS(PSM) program at Georgia Tech? How is the general job scenario for bioinformaticians straight out of school ? I have undergraduate degrees in biology and chemical engineering(dual degree), will finding a internship in my first year of grad school be easier with my qualifications?

Thank You Very Much

 

 

[bsharpe269]

The school is great. You don't really list your qualifications, just your majors so I can't comment on the ease of getting an internship. In general, internships come easiest to the best programmers so your programming knowledge from undergrad + what you pick up your first year will be important.

[carlitobrigante]

@bsharpe269- Thank You for the reply

 

I never programmed much during my undergrad years except for the coursework (did 2 programming courses), but i managed to pick it up fast and enjoyed it. I know C/C++ and SQL, have to learn python and perl. I will start working on my programming skills these 3-4 months before the program starts. I had many math courses as part of my engineering degree viz. numerical analysis, operations research, optimization, calculus I,II,III, prob&stats.   

 

All my projects involved wet lab work like gene expression studies and vector cloning. I have done some simulations in MATLAB as well. My only concern is that, we have to find an internship very soon, after the end of the first semester itself. 

[bsharpe269]

Students in my program also secure an internship after 1 semester and no one in the program seems to be struggling at all with getting one. Your programming abilities are about where mine are when I started my program and I was way ahead of a lot of people. My background is in applied math so I also had a strong background in probability, numerical analysis etc which makes learning programming so much easier. I wouldn't worry about the internship... The program will have lots of internship connections already that should make it easier to get one. I was surprised by how easy people seem to be getting internships during the masters and jobs after. I think there is a large need for people with the skillset.

[carlitobrigante]

Thank You @bsharpe269    It was really helpful and reassuring to get your insight.