Institutions and universities offering plant biology as a course are rare. Plant biology is a division of biological. Plant biology is usually a post graduation course. There are some institutions which offer plant biology as a graduation level course. Plant biology is also a part of biotechnology. Students can apply for these courses in the graduation level without appearing any entrance exams. Some of the institutions provide post graduation courses in plant biology. There are no such particular entrance exams for plant biology in the graduation level.

The candidates can appear for biology entrance exams. The score of biology entrance exams are considered by some institutions. There are courses such as B.A microbiology and B. Sc Biotechnology which includes plant biology as subjects. More over there is B.Sc plant biology course offered by some institutions. The students opting for post graduation can go for M.Sc or M Phil in plant technology.

List of Plant Biology entrance exams

• Centre for cellular and molecular biology entrance exam
• All India Institute of Medical Science Entrance exam
• Plant molecular biology entrance exams
• University of Hyderabad Plant biology and biotechnology entrance exams

There are exams conducted by concerned institutions which offer plant biology as a course.

List of institutions participating in these exams

• Queen Mary’s College, Tamil Nadu
• Government Arts college, Tamil Nadu
• Women’s Christian College, Tamil Nadu
• Bharathiar University
• Madras University
• Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
• Periyar University

Exam Pattern of Plant Biology Entrance Exams

The entrance exam for plant biology is conducted for two hours. The questions asked will be objective type. The question paper is basically divided into three sections. The core subjects included in the questions are Botany, Bio chemistry, Genetics and Micro biology. The plant molecular biology entrance exam consists of only 25 questions. Wrong answers are not accepted and it will affect the total marks. The students are supposed to attend the interview after the entrance exam. Selection of the candidates is done after evaluating the score in the entrance exam and the performance in the interview.

How to procure the admission for these exams?

For appearing in these entrance exams the candidates should get application forms either from the concerned institutions/universities. The institutions also have online option for applying for the exams. Candidates should reemit the fee for the entrance exam. Filled application form, certificate details and details of fee remitted has to be sent along with this application.

After the completion of post graduation in plant biology, the students can get higher career opportunities in this sector.