Careers In Chemistry

In the chemistry department, you'll learn how to communicate chemical concepts and problem-solve using critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills. With a degree in chemistry, you're ready to take on different careers in the chemical industry or keep going to graduate or professional school.

As a new graduate, you could begin your career in an industrial position, quality control or supervised research. Quality control is about making sure that a quality product is being made. That requires you to analyze starting materials, intermediate steps in the production process and the final product.

Quality Control Chemist

Research

Healthcare is the largest industry in the U.S. and still growing. As a chemistry major, your career would focus on the cure and prevention of disease. You can go on to graduate or professional school to be a dentist, pharmacist, doctor and more.

Dentist

Pharmacist

The chemical manufacturing industry employs most chemists. This includes firms that make plastics and synthetic materials, pharmaceuticals, detergents, paints, industrial organic material and other chemical products.

Research

Analyst