Baskent University Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics
Baskent University

Baskent University

Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics

Ankara, Turkey

BSc

English, Turkish, Arabic

Sep 2025

Key Summary

    About : The Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Genetics offers a comprehensive curriculum focused on the study of biological systems at the molecular level. Students will explore genetic mechanisms, cellular functions, and the latest advancements in biotechnology over the duration of the program. The course is designed to equip learners with practical laboratory skills and theoretical knowledge necessary for a successful career in the biological sciences.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue diverse career paths, including positions in research labs, biotechnology firms, and pharmaceutical companies. They may find opportunities as clinical researchers, geneticists, or work in academia. Additionally, further studies at the postgraduate level are also an option for those looking to specialize further.

The mission of Baskent University is to raise individuals indigenizing the objectivity of science and individuals having national consciousness and researcher, productive, interrogative, creative and innovative characters and being respectful of science, mind and universal law and having analytic and holistic view and being sensitive to human and environmental rights and also to raise individuals sticking to Atatürk's principles.

The other missions are to contribute to improvement the levels of technological, socio-economic and cultural of Turkish society by means of education and training, research and development and dissemination of information and to contribute to improvement of the human health, human and environmental rights and to contribute community service to become widespread.

All fields of life sciences investigate basically the living organisms and their interactions with each other, with questions of why and how. Molecular Biology and Genetics is an area of life science which living things are structurally and functionally studied at the molecular level. The mission of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Başkent University is to train graduates who are able to take a high-quality, interdisciplinary point of view needed in our country and be able to take part in innovative and pioneering research at the national and international level in the field and produce solutions to competitive and societal needs.