Botany in India

The study of Botany offers a wide scope of future to its students in India as well as abroad.Upon completion of the course, an individual may opt to go for higher studies or research field, or seeks a job at the subjectrelated opportunities. Many individuals, after pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Botany, can study MSc in Botany or MSc in Environmental Management for further studies.One can study abroad as well for further studies due to bigger opportunities and many prestigious Institutions offering thecourse study. A Botanist can also work as a field scientist or scientific assistant in both the public and private sectors. However, many environmental management-based companies are keener in recruiting students with this course degree.

To be very honest, there is not much scope in botany in India. - from study perspective: The field is good and vast too. If you are serious about taking botany as your major I would suggest you to study till Masters at least. After that you can apply for NET if you want to be a lecturer or you can go for research. Most people also opt for be. D. which can be done after B.Sc. Or M.Sc. In whichever way you like, be. D. opens the GATE for teaching in pvt schools. If you don't want to go to any of these you can do Ph.D. after completing your M.Sc. - Job perspective: You will not see many jobs in botany but yes you will get a chance to do internship in your M.Sc. Days. The reason why jobs less in this area because today the world is full of engineering jobs and MBA jobs and as this is not a technical degree its just a graduate degree. But yes you can do internship after completing your B.Sc. With Indian council of agricultural research. They offer 1 year paid internship ( you require a little knowledge of computers too). And one more thing there is no rule that after B.Sc. In botany you have to do M.Sc. In botany. You can change your major in M.Sc. You can opt for M.Sc. In biotechnology (good scope), M.Sc. In bioinformatics, M.Sc. In human genetics and many more.

Here are the few names which I would like to mention:
1) Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology
2) School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad
3) National Dairy Research Institute
Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai
4) Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology
5) Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University
6) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
7) Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
8) Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
9) Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology (NITC), Calicut
10) Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
11) Department of Biological Science & Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal
12) Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology,Guwahati
13) Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Warangal
14) Department of Biotechnology, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology