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does anybody know about the job market of biostatistics graduates with PhD degree? thanks!

does anybody know about the job market of biostatistics graduates with PhD degree? thanks!

Is it good?

does anybody know the biostatistics PhD program at Brown university? how about this program?

curious about best statistics program or school in everybody's mind, please give your answers and reasons if possible, thanks!

Oh, thanks a lot Pangloss! Could you tell more about the sub-programs of computer science and what they do?

hi, I'm doing my master of bioinformatics right now, but gradually i found that I became more interested in the computer or the IT part rather than the bio part. and i think the computer science kind of fits me so I am considering a PhD degree on the computer science or IT right now. but i was not majored in computer related subject when in university, so I want some information about the computer science or IT area in terms of its future, subjects and some suggestions on schools. I know i can google it but still your experiences are very valuable to me! thanks! by the way what i've done most are language programing with Perl.

Ok, I want to make it more specifically that: A, my reasons for not continue with biology: 1, not interested, actually say I have no feeling of it. it would be struggling and suffering if continued with that. 2, something like CharonY said, "Biology is a bit too much of a jack-of-all-trades", and i don't like that way. 3, the job market of biology is not good, so far as i know. I know money is not everything but it's absolutely important. (it’s a long story about why I learned genetics……..) B, the reasons for getting Phd: 1, saying of "'glass ceiling'" in industry and I've read it somewhere in this forum, maybe "MBA vs PHD"? but i am not sure if it's true for non-life science industry. 2, i think i have time and energy to fullfill it before it's too late. 3, I want to get a Phd C, the reasons for talking about business: 1, good job market 2, i think it's more about math and abstract stuff, to which i am interested and confident. i don't know if i made it more clear or even more confusing, give me your opinions, tks.

I'm not for sure and just asking, if it's possible to switch to a totally new area for Phd, which has nothing to do with biology? has anybody done this before?

yes, that's what i did for the past few years, sequence some organisms like a bacterium with 454 (my case), solid or solexa, assembly it and analyze the sequence. However, what do you think about the future of biology? why almost all the surveys consistently take the biology students as those with great difficulty in finding jobs, which very chills me.

i've got my genetics master degree, but i really don't want to follow the Phd in this subject, for the reasons that, for myself actually i'm not very interested in it, Second, based on the many surveys that the salary of Phd of biology is ranked as one of the lowest in a variety of subjects, further more after the graduation there would be several years of post-doctoral life waiting for you. some of my friends told me that if you don't like it, change as soon as possible, it's better to change when it gets too late, and i do want have a Phd degree, but i'm confused about what to continue. So my question is that can i switch to some other subjects? how about switch to business? are there any good suggestions? by the way, actually my major is about bioinformatics, and what i did most was using computer language to analyze the data.