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Avenues and scope of Biotechnology: With over 100 Biotech companies, India is positioned at number three in Biotech industrial growth, just behind Australia and China. In 2006-07, India achieved a significant growth of 33% in Biotech industry. India is set to become the Biotech capital of the world in the coming years, owing to a sustained annual industrial growth rate of over 30% in the last six years. The Government of India provides large-scale employment to most Biotechnologists in its research laboratories. Growing at almost 30% during this decade, Indian Biotechnology industry is likely to touch the mark of US$ 5 Billion by the end of 2010. In the next few years India would be requiring 4 million Biotechnologists. Some of the fields in which specializations (M.Sc Biotechnology) can be done are: * Veterinary Biotechnology * Medical Biotechnology * Marine Biotechnology * Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology * Genetic Engineering * Microbiology * Nano-Technology For list of universities and colleges offering post graduate programs in Biotechnology, there specializations and other details, Click here.