Biotechnology Technician

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Careers - September 2025

Graduates may find employment as laboratory technicians, laboratory analysts, quality assurance/control technicians, and research assistants in many possible sectors including environmental, agricultural, food, pharmaceutical and biomedical research technologies, analytical chemistry and many other exciting fields.

  • Biotechnology Technician graduates have the opportunity to complete the pathway to ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp's Bachelor of Environmental Public Health or Bachelor of Applied Biotechnology, which would allow them to earn their degree in approximately 2 years.
  • ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp and the University of Guelph have an agreement that allows Biotechnology Technician graduates to enter three different Honours Bachelor of Science Programs; Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Genetics, with advanced standing, such that they can complete the degree in 2.5 years (5 terms).
  • Diploma graduates may also enter University of Guelph’s Honours Bachelor of Science Program in Biochemistry with advanced standing such that they can complete the degree in 3 years (6 terms).
  • ¾ÅÖÝÓéÀÖapp and the University of Waterloo have an articulation agreement that allows graduates of the Biotechnology Technician program to gain advanced standing in two different Honours Bachelor of Science programs; Biomedical Sciences or Biology, such that they can complete their degree at an accelerated pace.

On average, 83% of graduates from 2020 to 2022 found employment within six months of graduation.

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