Vocational Programs for Life Scientists Career

Total Employees	Hourly Wage	Annual Wage
352K	$48.38	$100,630

The average annual wage of the occupations is $100,630 and $48 per hour. 76 vocational programs could be taken for the Life Scientists career. Based on BLS data, a total of 352,000 employees were employed in the Occupation.

The 2024 average tuition over the programs for preparing Life Scientists is $93,420. The average length of the programs is 1,054 hours and the average completion time is 18.46 months.

Vocational Programs to Prepare Life Scientists Career

The following 76 vocational programs are required or helpful to prepare Life Scientists.

The tuition, program length, and completion time program information is average amounts over all schools that offer each program. This information is only for vocational programs (i.e. certificate programs) and not for bachelor's or graduate degrees.

2024 Average Tuition and Completion Information for Preparing Life Scientists
Program Name	Number of Schools	Tuition & Fees	Books & Supplies	Program Lengths	Avg. Completion Time
Agriculture	588	-	-	1,206 Hours	14.77 Months
Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture	45	-	-	-	-
International Agriculture	2	-	-	-	-
Animal Sciences	17	-	-	-	-
Agricultural Animal Breeding	1	-	-	-	-
Animal Health	2	-	-	-	-
Dairy Science	2	-	-	-	-
Poultry Science	5	-	-	-	-
Animal Sciences (other)	4	-	-	-	-
Food Science	12	-	-	-	-
Food Technology and Processing	10	-	-	-	-
Brewing Science	14	-	-	-	-
Zymology/Fermentation Science	1	-	-	-	-
Food Science and Technology (other)	4	-	-	-	-
Plant Sciences	10	-	-	-	-
Agronomy and Crop Science	18	-	-	-	-
Horticultural Science	10	$157,200	$400	2,700 Hours	26.00 Months
Plant Protection and Integrated Pest Management	11	-	-	-	-
Range Science and Management	2	-	-	-	-
Soil Science and Agronomy	4	-	-	1,296 Hours	12.00 Months
Natural Resources/Conservation	45	-	-	-	-
Natural Resources Management and Policy	9	-	-	-	-
Water, Wetlands, and Marine Resources Management	6	-	-	-	-
Land Use Planning and Management/Development	4	-	-	-	-
Forestry	12	-	-	-	-
Forest Management/Forest Resources Management	2	-	-	-	-
Urban Forestry	4	-	-	-	-
Wood Science and Wood Products/Pulp and Paper Technology	2	-	-	-	-
Forestry (other)	3	-	-	-	-
Wildlife, Fish and Wildlands Science and Management	12	-	-	-	-
Culinary Science/Culinology	2	-	-	-	-
Biology/Biological Sciences	29	-	-	541 Hours	22.00 Months
Biomedical Sciences	15	$29,640	$4,260	541 Hours	22.00 Months
Biochemistry	2	-	-	-	-
Biophysics	1	-	-	-	-
Molecular Biology	2	-	-	-	-
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	2	-	-	-	-
Botany/Plant Biology	2	-	-	-	-
Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology	3	-	-	-	-
Microbiology	1	-	-	-	-
Zoology/Animal Biology	1	-	-	-	-
Entomology	3	-	-	-	-
Zoology/Animal Biology (other)	1	-	-	-	-
Genome Sciences/Genomics	3	-	-	-	-
Genetics (other)	1	-	-	-	-
Physiology	4	-	-	-	-
Exercise Physiology	1	-	-	-	-
Pharmacology	1	-	-	-	-
Biometry/Biometrics	2	-	-	-	-
Biostatistics	1	-	-	-	-
Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (other)	1	-	-	-	-
Biotechnology	40	-	-	-	-
Ecology	2	-	-	-	-
Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography	2	-	-	-	-
Evolutionary Biology	2	-	-	-	-
Environmental Biology	1	-	-	-	-
Conservation Biology	2	-	-	-	-
Epidemiology	1	-	-	-	-
Epidemiology and Biostatistics	1	-	-	-	-
Neuroscience	7	-	-	-	-
Neurobiology and Anatomy	1	-	-	-	-
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (other)	12	-	-	-	-
Gerontology	56	-	-	-	-
Behavioral Sciences	8	-	-	-	-
Natural Sciences	17	-	-	-	-
Nutrition Sciences	4	-	-	40 Hours	14.00 Months
Marine Sciences	5	-	-	-	-
Sustainability Studies	40	-	-	-	-
Geography and Environmental Studies	3	-	-	-	-
Physiological Psychology/Psychobiology	1	-	-	-	-
Forensic Anthropology	2	-	-	-	-
Medical Scientist	1	-	-	-	-
Pharmaceutics and Drug Design	1	-	-	-	-
Pharmaceutical Sciences	1	-	-	-	-
Environmental Health	7	-	-	-	-
Rehabilitation Science	4	-	-	-	-

Schools offering voational programs for Life Scientists

The following 767 schools offer the vocational programs and courses for preparing Life Scientists. The list includes some 4-year colleges that have certificate or associate programs for the career.