The Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai will start four new undergraduate (UG) paramedical courses from this academic year. Sources from the university has informed that the four courses are B.Sc. Bioinformatics, B.Sc Health informatics, B.Sc Data Sciences and B.Sc Environmental Health Sciences.
 
Environmental Health Sciences is a four-year course with one year internship, others are three-year courses with six month internship. Regarding eligibility to join, sources said students with plus two and equivalent qualification with physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, botony, zoology and computer sciences can apply.

Students of bioinformatics can join other universities in India and abroad for higher studies in biomedical sciences, molecular biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, human genetics and other life science programs. The student who completes this programme will be highly skilled analyst in biological data, informatics and computation programming.

Health Informatics students can do PG program & research (PhD) such as bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, clinical informatics, applied informatics and other interdisciplinary domains. Such specialists are in high demand in healthcare services.

Data sciences students can do PG programme & research (PhD) such as data sciences, bioinformatics, medical bioinformatics, clinical informatics, applied informatics and other interdisciplinary domains. There is high demand for such specialists in healthcare services.

Environmental health sciences students can do P.G. course in India and abroad in environmental sciences, public health, molecular biology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, human genetics and other life science programmes. They will become skilled technologists in water, air, food quality testing, disease surveillance and environmental management and conservation.