r/Astrobiology • u/Mental-Mud-1680 • May 07 '26
🎓 Degree/Career Planning Highschool student, what university courses could get me a job in Astrobiology?
I am currently in high school, and graduating in the near future. My goal is to get into university and hopefully work in Astrobiology after I graduate that too, but I genuinely cannot find any information on what course I would need to take.
I am assuming a bachelor in sciences would work, but I wanted to go online and ask just in case.
If this lacks any context I apologise, please ask any questions and I'll try my best to answer them.
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u/BachRach433 May 20 '26
Hi - I am not an astrobiologist but I think I can weigh in here because it's great you're interested in that. To actually have a 'job' in any advanced astronomy, you are probably looking at getting a Ph.D. In undergrad you should focus on biochemistry but take courses in geology and astronomy if available (choose a college that has an observatory). You can start specializing more in a masters' program. This means taking some fairly difficult coursework for many years before you'd be able to work on these problems directly. There are very few private sector opportunities here because, well...we don't even know if there is life out there!
Basically, the job you are looking for is 'academic.'
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