With nationally recognized faculty who pursue research which provides a rich learning environment with the use of a wide variety of instrument facilities and excellent technical staff who support the research and teaching efforts within the department, students will have acquired a broad and in-depth knowledge of the discipline. Students have the option to pursue a thesis track option by demonstrating research competence with the successful completion and defense of acceptable thesis research, or a non-thesis track where students demonstrate technical competence with successful completion of formal graduate-level course work in Chemistry and related disciplines. Our graduates successfully find employment after they graduate in academia and industry.