BACHELOR OF SCIENCE [B.SC] (BOTANY)

Bachelor of Science in Botany is a college degree program that generally sets aside 3 years of effort to finish. The course is intended to find out about the spice realm and its family found on the planet. It includes scholarly exercises inside the study hall meetings alongside functional ideas at research facility meetings. It gives out the logical learning of plants, green growth, and parasites. It broadly spins around the parts of plants including the development, structure, multiplication, digestion, sicknesses, physiology, and compound properties of the plants and plants' life systems all in all. The course is a broad combination of concentrating from the root cell structure to the activities and digestion of plants on more elevated levels including their advancement.

 

Eligibility Criteria

 

• 10+2  in the science stream and more precisely in the biology stream with 50-55% marks.

 

Admission Procedure for B.Sc. (Botany)

 

• Admission to the B.Sc curriculum is based on merit and on all entrance tests.
• Any colleges offer both direct enrollment and admission to the program depending on entry. 

 

Entrance Exams for B.Sc. (Botany)

 

• BHU UET (Banaras Hindu University)
• OUAT (Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology)
• IISER IAT (Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research)
• GSAT (GITAM University)

 

Course Highlight for B.Sc. (Botany)

 

Degree	Bachelors
Full-Form	Bachelor of Science in Botany
Duration	3 Years.
Age	No specific age limit
Minimum Percentage	50-55%
Subjects Required	Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, etc
Average Fees Incurred	INR 10,000 - 1 L per annum
Similar Options of Study	B.Sc (Zoology), B.Sc (Microbiology), B.Sc (Biotechnology), B.Sc (Genetics) and so on.
Average Salary Offered	INR 6.05 L per annum
Employment Roles	Health Coder, Administrative Advisor, Senior Research Associate, Quality Assurance Analyst, Head of HR, Research Scientist, Research Associate, Instructor in High School, etc.
Placement Opportunities	Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Wipro, Accenture, Syntel Inc, Quality Control Corp, Expertus Infotech, Groth Corporation, Novartis, Navisite Inc, Genpact, IBM India Private Limited, etc.

 

Syllabus for B.Sc. (Botany)

 

Year 1	Year 2	Year 3
Introduction to Biology	Plant Resource Utilization	Plant Systematics & Evolution
Algae and Microbiology	Mathematics and Statistics	Plant Physiology
Chemistry-I	Cell Biology - I	Environmental Management / Bioinformatics
Technical writing and communication in English / Computational skills	Molecular Biology - 1	Genetics & Genomics -I
Mycology & Phytopathology	Plant Development and Anatomy	Plant Metabolism
Archegoniate	Ecology and Phytogeography	Reproductive Biology of Angiosperms
Chemistry –II	Cell Biology II	Plant Biotechnology
Biochemistry	Molecular Biology - II	Genetics & Genomics - II

 

Top Colleges for B.Sc. (Botany)

 

College Name	City	Average Total Fee (INR)	Average Salary (INR)
Hindu college	New Delhi	18,640	6 LPA
Miranda House College	New Delhi	19,490	3-5 LPA
Hansraj College	New Delhi	21,395	5.5 LPA
Fergusson College	Pune	11,025	4.46 LPA
Ramjas College	New Delhi	14,610	3-5 LPA
St. Xavier’s College	Ahmedabad	10,000	7 LPA
Mount Carmel College	Bangalore	42,000	7.5 LPA
Sacred Heart College	Ernakulam	5,900	-
Christ University	Bangalore	20,000	4 LPA
Jai Hind College	Mumbai	7,300	3 LPA

 

Jobs & Career Options

 

Over for tunable course of the program, graduates get exposed to a number of BSc Botany Jobs, Some of them are Plant Pathologist, Ecologist, Nursery Manager, Plant Explorer, and Conservationist.

 

Areas of employment

 

• Agricultural Research Services
• Botanical Survey Centers
• Eco-botany
• Biotechnology Firms
• Fermentation Industries
• Environmental Management Units
• Food Industry and Herbal Industry
• Colleges & University
• Nursery Farms
• Environmental Consultancies
• Medical Content Writing
• Pharmaceutical Company

 

Job Types 

 

• Farming Consulting
• Environmental Consultancies
• Plant Pathologies
• Molecular Biologist
• Nursery Manager
• Ecologist