Chemistry
Major, Minor, Pre-health, Graduate Program
What will you do as a Chemistry major?
If you have a degree in chemistry, the sky is the limit! Chemistry is everywhere and the behavior of atoms, molecules, electrons and ions determine every aspect of our lives from the air we breathe to the soil we tread on. You will gain fundamental knowledge about chemical processes that affect the real world from energy to clean air, medicine and materials for technological devices. Depending on your interests, our comprehensive chemistry major will prepare you for careers in research, graduate, medical, dental or pharmacy school, education, industrial chemistry, patent and environmental law as well as numerous other jobs that require chemistry applications.
Sample courses
Bioanalytical chemistry
Physical chemistry of materials
Radiochemistry
Environmental Transformation of Organic Compounds
What can you do with a Chemistry degree: Careers of our graduates
Lead Brewer and General Manager at Ancestry Brewing
Scientists at Duke Environmental Analytical Chemistry Laboratory; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Schrodinger
Doctor of Emergency Medicine at Adventist Health
Graduate students at UC-Berkeley; ETH Zurich; University of Southern California; Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Meet our students and alumni